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What did it look like before and how does it work?
What I call kaleidoscope photography is done through the editing of pictures in photoshop to morph them into new forms. I follow the same basic steps for each photo only variating slightly.
step one: I choose a photo with an interesting subject and them plan on what specific part to use.
step two: I crop my photo into a square and then turn it 90 degrees onto its side. After picking the side I like the most I will crop it one more time in half.
step three: Next comes the copying of the original layer in order to create the kaleidoscope effect.
step four: Now I take the copied layers and flip or rotate them to be able to match corresponding sides so that the image mirrors itself.
step five: The outcome of the first few layers dictates how many more I will add and how large the picture will turn out to be.
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In order to make eye catching images I will sometimes up the exposure and brightness of my images. Then I am left with a bright picture I can do my normal process to. For this picture in particular I kaleidoscope copied my end image and lowered the opacity to enhance the detail.
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Sometimes I will simply reflect the full image four times in order make it longer. I want it to be long like the second image so I can apply a filter called polar coordinates. That will result into the last image being round and flowing.
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after coordinate change
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