This image is a composite of a shot of the Anhingas, post sitting on the Indian River Lagoon on Merritt Island and a cloud image I took a year ago. I don’t know all that was done to this, as I spent most of today working on it.
To the best of my knowledge it included in CS4 the following minimum; Topaz Detail, Topaz Denoise 5, Topaz Adjust, Fractalius, Accent Edges and other normal PS image adjustments.
I worked on the birds first and changed the image to B&W with Topaz, prior to painting in the blue water, the bills and the brown highlights on the posts. I then resized the cloud image to fit the sky area, which I remove with the magic eraser, of the bird image. I then ran the cloud image through Topaz Denoise, Accent Edges and Fractalius, as well as normal adjustments.
The Fract adjustments gave me the clouds as you see them. I had to paint in the open sky area, as I had expanded the canvas to reshape the clouds to fit the sky area.
Finally, I did the big job of bucket painting all the blue water and brown areas. Not a small project, but I like the results. Hope you agree. :)
Enjoy!
Denise, Kerry ... I forgot to hit the weekly theme button when posting this. Please modify to so indicate. I think this is qualified for consideration!
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