abstract photography

1. Check out this little presentation. 

2. Take a minimum of 10 photographs of surfaces to be used as backgrounds. Make sure you do not use flash and try your best to take photos that are in focus.

 Look for:

• Color
• Texture
• Lines
• Shapes
• Values

3. Photoshop 3 of your photos to use as backgrounds

• one dark
• one bright
• one color

Here is a video that talks about how to edit photographs in Photoshop with layer adjustments: