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Cormorant
How I did it -
My objective was to enhance the image and still maintain the natural look. I first cropped the image to 800 X 600. Next I copied the background to a new layer and changed the blending mode to darken an overexposed image. The effect was too much so I reduced the opacity of the layer to 70%. I merged the copy layer to background. I used a combination of the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush to remove the distracting reed behind the head. I recently reviewed the Topaz filters for the Journal so I wanted to see what Adjust 4 and Detail 2 would do on this image. The eye of a cormorant is this nice emerald green so I used Adjust 4 to increase the color of the eye. Because this was applied to the whold image I used a Layer Mask to restrict the effect to the eye and part of the bill. After applying the mask I used Detail 2 to bring increast the contrast in the bird and bring up the detail. I didn't was this applied to the background behind the bird so again I used a Layer Mask to restrict the effect to the bird. I finally used a Curves Adjustmetn Layer to darken slightly the corners of the image to hold the viewers attention on the bird. I used the mask of the adjustment layer to restrict the darkening to the corners.
COMMENTS:
| Dennis Hughes |
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| Carol Kane |
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| Karen Leonard
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| Peggy Seale |
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| William Thompson |
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| Minnie Travis |
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| Member Bio |
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I have been a member of PSA for over 30 years. I have had various jobs in Photographic Society of America the most recentlywas Chairman of the Electronic Imaging Division. I received my FPSA at the 1998 conference in Orlando.
I am retired as Manufacturers Representative in Electronics and am currently teaching Photoshop at two locations locally.
I have been married to my wife Bev for over 50 years and have 2 sons, one a photographer and a PSA member.
I use a Dell PC, Windows XP, Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2. I have an Epson flatbed scanners and a Epson printer, a R260. I shoot all in digital with a Canon Digital Rebel XT camera with a 17mm -55 mm and a 70-300 mm IS lens.
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