Pushing the Envelope

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks;

Took a photo from last year of a diving Gila Woodpecker, then a Envelope stuck on a branch today, and for kicks a piece of a Con trail in the sky I took a couple of days ago. (Not completely sure how I feel about the con trail, maybe larger, maybe on other ends of bird or envelope- lots of maybe's, but sorta like it the way it is maybe because I didn't want more layers to work on

CC's always welcome and appreciated.

Warm hugs to all.

Gus aka MP

[Ken Childs]

I was wondering how long it would take for an envelope to show up in one of these edits!

I like the contrail but I'd get rid of the dark blue streaks between the bird and the envelope. Also, there seem to be a lot of artifacts around the edges of the bird and envelope that should be easy to remove.

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi; Seeing I had the orginal PSD, I cleaned up the layers with eraser at 200%.

Have another look.

Gus

[denise ippolito]

Gus, I'm glad to see you posting! I love this!! The contrail is cool and fits perfectly IMO. I love the envelope and the woodpecker is awesome. I do still see parts of the blue that Ken was referring to in the repost. I might tone down the whites on the woodpecker-very, very cool image and design Gus !!!!

[Gus Hallgren]

Hin Denise;

Thanks for looking and CC's. This is my last kick at the cat! Whites to my old peepers are not OOTB hot now!

Keep smiling

Gus

[Andrew McLachlan]

Very creative and funny Gus. Nice work on the repost!

[Kerry Perkins]

Too much Gus! Last night I was thinking about doing an image very similar to this. Now I don't have to. Very clever and the re-post cleaned it up nicely. Thanks!

[denise ippolito]

Great repost Gus!!!

[Steve Adkins]

Great repost, Gus! A supersonic messenger. Awesome!

ps- The cat is safe.

[Christopher Miller]

Very creative image, Gus! I'd say it definitely "pushes the envelope!" The last repost is perfect.

[Maureen Allen]

Too funny, Gus. I love the con trail

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks;

Thanks all for looking and your kind comments

Something done with Free Fotosketcher for a choice :eek:

Warm regards

Gus

[Paul Lagasi]

Nice work Gus, last one works for me a la Gus..enjoy...the good weather and birds are a coming, looking for ward to seeing some more of this years hummingbird photos...

[Indranil Sircar]

Very creative! I too like the final post.

[Richard Lovison]

Gus,

Welcome back. Only you could do this and do it so well. Last re-post is my favorite. Well done.

Richard

[Judy Howle]

Very creative Gus, I love it! The repost rocks!

[Ken Childs]

That last repost does the trick!