This is my entry for @bliss11's contest . As I take plenty of pictures and also play with Gimp/Photoscape a lot, this is a must-enter for me. For me, my goal is one more image to use in Redbubble, TeePublic and DeviantArt.

Process

I have begun double-taking some of my shots in the hopes of finding two that can run together in a traditional gif quite naturally. These two aren't perfect, but they were very, very close, so I went with these today.

I took these recently at Pathfinder Dam - this is the spillway/outlet from the dam.

I ran these two images first through my Photoscape filters - using the colored pencil, then the watercolor pencil as those seem to make a lovely picture together.

At this point, I had this result: (just showing one)

Then, I took them to Lunapic online filter. I tried a number of filters and had a lot of pretty results, but I finally went back with these Photoscape-filtered picture and ran it through the "watercolor" Lunapic filter and the "space" filter - before running each of them through the "sparkle" animation.

At this point, they looked like this:

While you can't stack multiple animations within Lunapic, I decided to try putting them together in Photoscape, which is how I got the result at top - which is my entry in this contest.

What's really interesting is that the sparkle almost makes you not even notice that the two images are a fraction of a degree off in rotation. But if you watch the water, it captures some of the movement. I think it's an excellent result that I'm very proud to share with you.

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Image taken in June 2020 with my Nikon D7200, edited in Photoscape and Lunapic.

Previous Entries...

Week 4 Oak King Sculpture (2nd place) ,
Week 5 Yellow Potentilla ,
Week 6 Sand Swallowtail Fantasy ,
Week 7 Daisy Macro Fun ,
Week 8 Pink Columbine Flower ,
Week 9 Kitten Cloud ,
Week 10 Pink Blossom Trio ,
Week 11 Flowing North Platte - animated ,
Week 12 Pink Aquilegia ,

Lori Svensen
author/designer at A'mara Books
photographer/graphic artist for Viking Visual
(Buy my work at RedBubble, TeePublic, PicFair and DeviantArt.)
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