The altered version of the photo above

Well I have made a couple of cards recently but unfortunately  in my hurry to send them I have forgotten to photograph them so I had nothing to blog about until today.
I have been trying to alter photographs to look more artistic and in doing so trying to learn more about how photoshop works.  Using the original photo that Harry took (while on holiday with my mum in Benbecula) I first cropped it to get rid of the car on the right.  Desaturated it and boosted the contrast.  I then added another background layer (from Doug Landreth’s Photomorphis sample texture pack).  Mucked about with opacity then added a border.  It sounds simple when I type it out like that but it has taken me all morning to get it how I wanted it to look.  This one was then printed onto glossy photo paper and inserted into a large aperture card for Fraser’s birthday card.