Yellow Warbler

[Mitch Carucci]

Topaz simplify was used to soften and to add a bright gloss to an overly cropped image.

[Arthur Morris]

Welcome Mitch and thanks a stack for your membership support.

I like the effect on the leaves but for me, the effect on the bird and the yellows was disastrous.... A good crop from the bottom would improve the COMP.

May we see the original?

[Mitch Carucci]

Welcome Mitch and thanks a stack for your membership support.

I like the effect on the leaves but for me, the effect on the bird and the yellows was disastrous.... A good crop from the bottom would improve the COMP.

May we see the original?

Thanks for your observations. Do you think this works any better? I removed the "simplification" from the bird (so the warbler is as it was), but left the simplify on the background. I also cropped from the bottom as you suggested.

[Indranil Sircar]

Hi Mitch, welcome to OOTB! Artie has excellent suggestion on cropping the image. I too like the effect on the leaves. Another suggestion would be to apply Simplify on copied layer and use a mask/brush to open-up the warbler on the original bg layer selectively. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to seeing more of your work.

[Mitch Carucci]

Hi Mitch, welcome to OOTB! Artie has excellent suggestion on cropping the image. I too like the effect on the leaves. Another suggestion would be to apply Simplify on copied layer and use a mask/brush to open-up the warbler on the original bg layer selectively. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Thanks Indranil,

I was just working on making some of the changes suggested (and just posted it). Do you think it is any better?

M.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks for your observations. Do you think this works any better? I removed the "simplification" from the bird (so the warbler is as it was), but left the simplify on the background. I also cropped from the bottom as you suggested.

The crop is perfect. The bird is still way to funky/over-saturated/over sharpened for my tastes. That is why I asked to see the original, i.e., a JPEG that represents the converted RAW file straight up with no adjustments :).

[Mitch Carucci]

The crop is perfect. The bird is still way to funky/over-saturated/over sharpened for my tastes. That is why I asked to see the original, i.e., a JPEG that represents the converted RAW file straight up with no adjustments :).

Arthur,

Here is the original pic. Way to far to keep as a straight print, but I liked the position of the singing warbler. That's why I tried to "manipulate" the image.

Thanks for your comments.

Mitch

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Mitch. I would try it from scratch while taking Indranil's suggestion above into account. Both of your versions super-toasted the bird.