holiday textures

I have been playing a lot with my camera and Photoshop lately. I am looking for images that translate well into texture. These days I can look no further than to my floor to find the best stuff - falling off all those decorations. Every day I find new stuff to work with.


This clump of long needles produced this:

I used the pinch feature in the filter drop down to create the distortion in the centre.

A small handful of the same needles produced this.

Once the images are sharpened in layers, I use a lot of the filter tools: cut out, neon glow, find edges, and posterization. Not necessarily in that sequence and sometimes I uses them a couple of times depending on the image.

These branches denuded of their pine needles produced this:



And this:
The image was cropped, flipped, cut out, and posterized; also a few other processes but I don't always remember as I tend to experiment a lot while doing.


These pine needles produced this:



and... my New year's Rat.