Glowing Trees
I was playing with the new Topaz Adjust 5 and came up with this image, from one of my fall color images made in October in MS. I used Glow in the Dark preset, applied and Portrait Smooth at 65% transparency as it looked overly detailed and I wanted to soften it a bit. Sorry about the magenta glow, but too hard to fix easily. And I kinda like it!
I really like the look of the trees and their reflection in the water after the processing. For my taste, though -- and this is likely a personal thing -- the blue and purple are pretty highly saturated. If it were mine, I'd back off on both their saturation and darkness.
Judy, this is almost psychedelic! I like what you got using Topaz 5. The glowing effect on the trees are awesome. For me it is the over-saturated sky and the magenta glow that makes it OOTB an experience
Judy, I see Dennis' point but I do like the over saturated OOTB look you've created. Nice job with the filtering. I do feel like the lighting is directing the eye right to the center, I might add a little more lighting on the left side if it were mine.
Thanks everyone! Dennis, I like the saturation and darkness in the sky. The original image was darker on the right because I was using a polarizer and couldn't get it even. I'll play with it some more and might crop some off of the left to leave the bright trees or try to lighten them.
Psychedelic trees for sure! Perhaps even pushing the magenta more.....for an even wilder OOTB look? I like bold colors and it looks like you do too!
Judy - the colors are wild! I like it
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These colors really pop. Wild!
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