What a difference a week makes!

Last week I was posting snow pictures ... today the first signs of spring. The daffodils are getting ready to burst upon the scene and brighten this long, cold spell.






All of the images were edited in Color Efex Pro.

The last two have textures from Shadowhouse Creations.

I used three layers of textures on the first: Elemental Grunge #1, overlay mode, 50% opacity; one of the Painted Canvas textures, overlay mode 75% opacity; a third (sorry, don't know the name), soft light mode, 100% opacity. Masks were added to all layers and I painted in varying degrees of opacity on them.



Two layers of textures on the second image: Aged Canvas #6, overlay mode 100% opacity; Painted Canvas #5, soft light mode, 60% opacity. Both layers masked and painted.