Fly..Something a little different

[ClaudioG]

Hi guys and gals, im putting an image here...and to be honest..i dunno what i want.

My image quality has been a lot better than this so this is liek a throw away image. But idecided to try do something with it, i tried going a little freaky with colours surrounding the insect, im trying to give it a more alien kind of feel.

I guess i'd like to know is if i have succeeded in giving it an alien type of surrounding? i also oversharpened the insect on purpose to get the effect. I'm also trying to give it a semi photographic/drawing type of feel. Have i succeeded?

I used the hue/saturation adj to mess around with the colours, can anyone recommend on the usage of this type of adjustment?

All opinions are greatly appreciated.

[Geoff F]

That works reasonably well, Claudio. There are a couple of 'blobs' in the background that I would prefer to smooth out a bit more; but nothing serious.

When doing that sort of adjustment I often rely on layers and masks with some suitable blend mode changes to the layers.