The "blad" for "Creative Scanography" to be published by Ilex Press fall 2006 (more like spring or fall 2007). I didn't select this particular cover, but it sure looks good!
Bet you think this was all Photoshopped huh? Nope, I tinkered with the scanner color channels until I got this "psychedelic" effect. As usual I got a little...yawn...bored scanning the yellow and red parrot tulips in spring 2003, so I decided to have a little fun here...just start bending a crazy, loopy line for each channel until you find attractive color combinations. Expect to hit plenty of "out of gamut" ranges. A lot of the combinations will be murky and hideous, but just keep tinkering within the zones, keeping enough detail in the highlight regions. Clean up distracting artifacts in Photoshop later on. A lot of dirt fell out of these tulips- if you zoomed in on the original file you'd notice a lot of unsightly dust motes that were sharpened. I had to conceal all the really offensive ones, but there are still untouched millions. "Impressionistic" or "pop" images can be printed really large with a relatively small color palette. You can adapt any limited color palette for an underpainting.
What I did here has a smoother transition of colors than the predictable "posterize" action. Unlike posterization I added more colors where there were originally only reds and yellows.
