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I like the way the ripples interact with the background. Are they from the printing process?
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Thanks Dennis. The ripples were in the gator photo, not the Gelli print. Since they were light colored the blending made it hard to tell. I don't remember which blend mode I used.
Originally Posted by
Dennis Bishop
I like the way the ripples interact with the background. Are they from the printing process?
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I love the bg Judy. What do you use for the print, acrylic paint? I wonder if you reduced the opacity of the bg just a bit, the gator would stand out more? Marvelous work.
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Last edited by Judy Howle; 04-03-2015 at 09:55 AM.
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Hey, Judy, welcome back and I'm sorry you've had so much trouble with your computer. I have a very hard time processing images on my laptop. I think I prefer the repost - good suggestion from Jackie. I also like the one with Topaz Clean 
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Hi Cheryl, and thanks! I have the laptop hooked up to my 24" monitor so it's not hard to process on it, it's a pretty high end laptop for a 2010 model. The worst thing was that I was just finishing up a big project of restoring/retouching 5 images for the local university to be framed together in the newly restored music hall and hadn't printed them yet. They were not copied onto my external hard drive so I had to get them to transfer them onto it at the shop, they put it into a dock to do it. (I have 4 drives in my desktop.) Then I did the final tweaks and printed them from the laptop. I sure was glad to get that behind me!!! I haven't had any paying jobs since then and hope I don't till they get it fixed.
Originally Posted by
Cheryl Slechta
Hey, Judy, welcome back and I'm sorry you've had so much trouble with your computer. I have a very hard time processing images on my laptop. I think I prefer the repost - good suggestion from Jackie. I also like the one with Topaz Clean
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Judy, I like the original because it made me open my mind to the whole image before the gator emerged from the background. For a moment I thought I was back in the 60's looking at a poster for the Fillmore. 
I love the subtlety of that and I think that gets lost in the repost. Either way, it's a great image!
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Thanks Kerry! I like that aspect of it too. In fact, a Facebook friend suggested the name "Find the gator". I should have called it that! I also like the bolder colors, but when I created it I could have toned it down just a little but not as much as my re-do which did make it easier to recognize that it's a gator.
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I like both versions, can't choose between them. Love the bright colors and design. As I wrote on flickr--the alligator is much too close for comfort--and those happy colors don't fool me. :-)
Too bad about your computer troubles. So frustrating.
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Thanks Anita! Yep, it was pretty close! They have many gators at Noxubee Wildlife Refuge and to my knowledge no one has been attacked and I know of photographers who have approached them on land as close as 15 to 20 ft.! One of the park employees told me that someone in a canoe tried to go down a small ditch or creek and ran over one and it bit the canoe. Who could blame it?!
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Anita Bower
I like both versions, can't choose between them. Love the bright colors and design. As I wrote on flickr--the alligator is much too close for comfort--and those happy colors don't fool me. :-)
Too bad about your computer troubles. So frustrating.
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