You never know where will your next inspiration come from. I sat down to have late lunch yesterday. What will I do with my eyes? I have to have them look at something. I’d downloaded a series of Photoshop tutorials and decided to watch this particular episode. There were couple of pictures in there that blew me away; beautiful stuff! [Mark's Ref Guide to Layers episode is a must for any PS beginner]
Usually I’d watch tutorials like this as a movie: “Oh, so that’s how they do it” and then done. I never attempt to give the techniques a try. This time I got up , picked up my camera, and shot a few cloud pics outside my window. I had to use clouds for something.
An hour later, after finding this rather bland Astroland photo, I ended up with this.
The ’300′ -like effect happened unintentionally. At some point I tried the ‘Multiply’ blend mode and there it was. Man, you can’t mess with happy accidents!
Mm mm…that felt good and totally made my weekend. 
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THIS IS ASTROLAND!!
Sorry, I only had an obvious joke.
Heh heh!
Wow .. love the effect. Great stuff
Fun. I thought a tornado of some sort had hit Brooklyn, until I read the explanation.
Thank you, Dee!
My original title was ’300 Coney Island’. I don’t know why I thought the current one was cooler. Anyway.
And to think they were going to tear this down…. Pretty cool looking
That’s awesome. Much better with the “drama” filter applied.
Thanks, Justin and Joe!
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