For the 31st Scavenger Hunt, I decided to create all my images within an overarching theme of “Board games” – and maybe take the opportunity to talk about said games during this post.
One of the word was “Sparkle” – and what’s more sparkling than diamonds? Hence, I had a pretty straightforward theme with the game Diamant. Diamant is a push-your-luck game where players collect gemstones in a dangerous (think Indiana Jones-dangerous) mine. The more they dig, the more they’ll bring home – but if they fall into a trap they don’t bring anything back!
Here’s my original picture:
| Camera | Pentax K-1 II |
| Lens | smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro |
| Focal length | 50 mm |
| F-Number | F/8 |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| ISO | 1000 |
This was most definitely not sparkly enough! Which meant that I need to add some sparkles to my diamonds… which meant that I created my first ever Photoshop brush. I mostly followed this video: Photoshop Tutorial: How to create a Star Brush Set. So I played with that for a while, and then I added a few (okay, a lot) of not-at-all-subtle digital glitter on my gems.
It was a lot of fun, and I’m actually quite happy with the final image!
The complete Scavenger album is available here: the Sparkle album.
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