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[Harshad Barve]

Dear All
I dont remenber how many filters I have used , but applied nearly all :D
all C & C welcome & much appreciated
Harshad

[denise ippolito]

Harshad, This has a watercolor look to it with a glaze finish! Very beautiful colors!

[Dave Mills]

Hi Harshad, Beautiful use of color and interesting filter application. I like that I still can recognise that the subject is a bird...

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi Harshad, The colors are beautiful and I like the almost enameled look it has. Good job!

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Cheryl

[Indranil Sircar]

Nice composition. The colors of the kingfisher makes this work very well. I like the texture and the background. Just as a suggestion you may want to try out lightening the dark band in the background; it seems to draw my attention away from the beautiful colors of the bird IMO.

[Harshad Barve]

Thanks Indranil , but difficult for me , let me try

[Indranil Sircar]

Harshad, I took the liberty of trying pp on your photo; hope you do not mind. Here is a version with a lightened up bg.... typically I create a new layer by copy, use level to lighten up and then use a soft brush with different opacity to paint over opening up the layer below accordingly. In this case I used 17-43% opacity.

[Harshad Barve]

Indranil ,
It looks so good , thanks a ton

[denise ippolito]

Great repost Indranil!!

[Fabs Forns]

Love the colors and action implied here, well done!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Harshadbhai,
What a cool idea. Indy's repost is really good. You're on fire my man!