Christmas Card

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks:

I took the original of the Elegant Trogan I used for it's first Christmas card and after an hour of carefully isolating the bird with a new background and four layers I came up with this Christmas card slightly oversharpened for printing and size proportion for 4.25" x 5.5" for 2 folding cards from a 11" x 8.5" sheet of card stock that printed out pretty good IMHO.

CC's always appreciated

Season's Greetings

Uncle Gus

BTW; Original photo taken by Gina

[denise ippolito]

Gus, Really nice looking card. I might clean up a few marks in the BG . Beautiful looking beird and the etched look on it is nice! Another nice shot Gina!

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Denise

Don't know where the marks could from except a monitor as the BG is the bottom of transparent layers & is solid white.

Anyway, here's a different version.

Best regards

Gus

[denise ippolito]

Hi Gus, This one looks nice. Not sure where they are coming from but I do still see some. Maybe there is another layer that you forgot about? Let's see what others say. Maybe my eyes are getting tired.

[Patti Edens]

What a beautiful bird! I like the white background better, but I do see the stray marks as well in both of them. They are easier to see on the white.

[Bill Jobes]

Beautiful, Gus.
I prefer the original post with white background.
I also see the spots, or marks ... mostly to the right of the bird in the background area. Three of them on both images.

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks

Guess I'm blind as particularly in the blue one as the background is blue sky with clouds.

They both print out beautifully, and folks like the cards

Take care

Uncle Gus