FLEXIFY 2: WILD and CRAZY T
here are many ways to create abstract images in photography and Photoshop. One of the unique ways of making beautiful and surrealistic imagery is with a plugin called Flexify 2. It is made by the same developer that makes Flood: www.flamingpear.com. The types of images that can be distorted in Flexify 2 can be pretty much anything. For example, the picture below is a shot of the lobby of the stunning Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, while the abstract on the next page comes from an orchid photographed against a black background. On
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page 6, I used a portrait from Carnival in Venice to create a wild distortion. You can see that the range of subjects applicable to this technique is quite varied.