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The Lion who doesn't sleep
This is one of two lions "guarding" the steps of one of my favorite antebellum homes here in town. The other lion is sleeping and you may see it later. The image was made with my iPhone but processed entirely in Lightroom and CS6 beta. I had to clone out the unsightly seam down the face of the lion which is made of iron and is a brick red color and cloned out other small blemishes.
I started (2 hrs. ago!) with a Lightroom preset that I bought and I tweaked it a bit. Then in CS6 I first used 3 stacked Nik Color Efex filters including vignette and cross processing (I think). Then I duplicated the layer and used Topaz Simplify but only really left it on the background; I think I erased at 88% off the lion. Then I added 3 textures and did a little painting and cloning on the eyes.