by Leslie Nicole | May 23, 2017 | Photoshop
In the last post, I showed you my set up for photographing an iris flower intended for my designs. In this post, I share my creative Photoshop filter explorations. The Master File I’m not going to go into great detail on my master file preparation –...
by Leslie Nicole | May 19, 2017 | Photography
When photographing a flower to create a motif for your designs or illustrations, you may need to cheat a bit. Manipulating An Iris For Photography This lovely Iris is from my garden. It was a beautiful flower, but the composition wasn’t quite working for...
by Leslie Nicole | May 10, 2017 | News
I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve posted here! You know how we sometimes go through rough patches in our lives? Well, 2016 was a humdinger for me with a lot of challenges: personal loss, health issues, life questions, and business...
by Leslie Nicole | Nov 12, 2015 | Photography
A few tips for picking and prepping flowers and plants before photographing them. Includes choosing plants, when to pick, basic clean up, and creative edits. The roses in the featured image above were perfect as is. If I’m walking in the garden and see a...
by Leslie Nicole | Oct 30, 2015 | Design, Photography
The teaser for a series of posts on photographing flowers and plants and post-processing in Photoshop and Illustrator as design elements and illustrations. Photography to Post-Processing Teaser These days I’ve been obsessed with photographing (mostly) my dahlias...