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    I took this image downtown recently at City Hall in Gainesville - they have a pond with large rocks and I had gone there to take some shots of the reflections in the pool. An egret flew in and groomed himself on the rocks for a long time. I worked on this several ways but ended up with this - I thought it looked like an egret in the mountains with the clouds floating around him. I first took the image into DAP and ran Benson for about 200-300 strokes to provide a texture layer (thanks Denise for this tip) and blended it with the original. I then used Topaz B&W and changed the Quad Tone until I got something that looked like it had touches of gold and ink and also used the Simplify adjustment , then Nik Color Efex Contrast Color to change some of the colors a bit and then Topaz Adjust Exposure Correction. I added kanji which means tranquility.
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    Nice work, Cheryl! I like the egret alot. I wish that the kanji showed up stronger. Maybe if it was backed with rock and no foliage?

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    The bkgd effect is very cool. I really like the posture of the egret and wonder if a bit of added glow would give it more prominence, if that is something you might want. I just googled "kanji". What a wonderful group of characters and you have inspired me to use them in my images for additional meaning.
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    Nancy, thanks for your comments. I create mine by using Photoshop>File>New and choose Transparent for the Backround Contents. Then you can paint your kanji and apply them to any image you want.

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    The bkgd effect is very cool. I really like the posture of the egret and wonder if a bit of added glow would give it more prominence, if that is something you might want. I just googled "kanji". What a wonderful group of characters and you have inspired me to use them in my images for additional meaning.
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    Cheryl, When I first opened the image I thought that it looked a little busy but then the background really grew on me and I like it a lot. Nice eye for this one!

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    Really interesting. The gold tones are a nice touch. It does look like mountains. I wish the head stood out more from the background. Nice composition.

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