I started messing around in the field by focusing on the little plant and blurring the head of the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. I took the eye from a sharp image with a QM and then used a second QM to do a Gaussian Blur on the plant. I rather like it.
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ps: I could do without the white smudge just to the right of the plant...
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Wow...now that's unique! I agree that I'd like the beak a bit more pronounced but having it all blurry and then seeing that eye...Alfred Hitchcock would be proud of you!
Very creative Artie! My first impression upon looking at the image was that the eye was pasted on top and sort of floating. I think the sharp edges to the eye are creating this, so in my repost, I used the smudge tool in CS3 to softed this edge and, for me at least, this puts the eye inside the head and not pasted on top.
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Dan, That's exactly what it needed ! Great re-post and makes the eye so believable!
Artie, You had a good soft blur -hard to do .I think you did it well!!
Way to go Dan. I love what you did. Can you explain in detail how you used the smudge tool?
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Your welcome Artie. I used the zoom tool, enlarging the eye area, then selected the smudge tool at about 8 pixels, strength of 30% and a hardness of 0%. With the tool set, I went around the edge of the eye and "pushed" the edge a little toward the inner eye.
Thank you sir. That is one tool that I have never used. Will go back and try it.
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