Texas Star Hibiscus blur
This is my first time to do a blur. It's fun! I had several layers with a normal flower, a swirl blur under a zoom blur and Topaz adjust applied before the zoom blur to bring out details. Topaz Clean applied after the zoom blur. Layer masked the stamen and center and flattened before I applied Topaz Clean.
Nice image and application, Judy.
Nice for the first blur attempt. Would even be nice for your 20th! ;) :D
Judy, I love the amount of blur on the flower and the colors are great. I kinda wish it were less centered, maybe a bit more right and bottom in the frame. Glad to see the layer masked Stamen. Looks awesome!!!
I like the blur Judy, and you did a good job w/ the mask. Good first attempt. The colours almost give it a HDR look.
Thanks for all of your comments, much appreciated. I agree the crop isn't ideal but I was experimenting so I used the one I'd already cropped and exported from Lr. From now on I'll crop bigger and leave more room to try different crops. I will re-do this one too and hope I can duplicate the settings in Topaz.
Nice work, Judy. Love the dramatic feel created by the zoom blur and great complimentary colors. Agree with above on the crop.
Judy, nice job. Great zoom and I like the work you did with the mask and Topaz.:)
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