Propagating Proiphys amboinensis from seeds is viable!
Proiphys amboinensis (Cardwell Lily, Northern Christmas Lily) really had us intrigued when it flowered for the first time last April after 7 years and sent me on a search mission for its correct ID.!
An attractive foliage plant with large heart-shaped green-coloured leaves, embossed with lovely venation and will produce fabulous white blossoms unexpectedly to amaze [...]
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly), the dancing queen!
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly)
Memorable June 2008 event in our garden
Everything seem so marvelously perfect in our tropical garden setting in June. Foliage plants were at their luxuriant best, flowering plants/shrubs were happily blooming non-stop, mealy bugs/white flies were least seen, and even the weather was extra kind, neither too hot nor too wet.
Photoshop tutorial – Create an artistic photo collage of butterflies
Overjoyed in capturing 16 fabulous shots of this strikingly beautiful butterfly Graphium agamemnon (Tailed Jay) recently, I then proceeded to create a collage of this beauty! Something I enjoy doing when I possess the right photos. Most of the images were close-ups, but there were 3 that stood out well for my purpose which was [...]
Photoshop tutorial – Collage showcasing pictures of a pretty creepy-crawly!
What an attractive bug! It was crawling leisurely around our courtyard and begging to be photographed! I succeeded in taking quite a number of its image, but an insect with nothing much around isn’t so exciting to view!
What do you think I did? A photo collage, of course as seen here!
Photoshop tutorial – Collage of illusive garden photos and an inset
Hehe…if you’d browse through this blog and my Flickr photostream, you’d come to know that I’m really a Photoshop maniac!
Having learnt recently how to create an illusion of a picture within a picture and presented a Photoshop tutorial on it, I’ve found this craft handy when I needed to illustrate garden flower images [...]
Photoshop Tutorial – Create an illusion of a picture within a picture
Sometimes, I’d like to bring more focus to the main subject or object in my photo…don’t you? One of the ways to do this is to create an illusion, of course! Basically, it is creating the appearance of a smaller cropped version of the photo within its larger self, using the vector shape, creating a [...]
Photoshop tutorial – Extracting objects to create a fun photo collage
Such fun creating collages! A simple art form in which multiple photos are combined into a piece of art. It is now my latest passion as I aspire to experiment and learn more tricks and techniques from Photoshop CS2 and the internet. Having recently experimented how to extract objects, resize, reposition and rotate images, I’d [...]
Photoshop tutorial – Create an easy one-photo collage
Here’s another interesting way to create a single picture collage using the same image as the background. I’ve seen lots of this kind of collage on Flickr photosharing and often wondered how it was done. As I pondered, it strucked me recently that basically it’s just a cropped image laid on its bigger image to [...]
Photoshop tutorial – Simple collage of 9 flower pictures
I just love creating collages! It challenges me to be more creative and keeps me mentally alert which is good for my aging brain!
Recently, I had wanted to show off the many bright cheery faces of this lovely flower, Torenia Fournieri that shines endlessly in our garden. What better way was there [...]
