Ink drawing, Orange-crowned Warbler

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks;

Photographed this Orange-crowned Warbler under clear blue sky in our garden in Green Valley, AZ. Black ink drawing processed
using CS5 only.

Comments welcome and looked forward to.

Gus

[Steve Adkins]

Great choice of effect and subject, Gus. Love it!

[Cheryl Slechta]

Gus, I love the pen and ink look. If you want to make it perfect - there is a white smudge on the black framing line just above the perch.

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks;

Thanks for looking. Cheryl, Eagle Eye, thanks for heads up, fixed original, but won't post.

Have a great day.

Gus

[Morris Altman]

Beautiful work Gus. I love all the detail and contrast

Morris

[denise ippolito]

Gus, Very nice work Gus, The white background really makes your sketch pop! How did you create the Topaz Clean look in CS5?

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks;

Thanks for your kind words.
Denise, What is the Topaz clean look?

Gus

[denise ippolito]

Topaz Clean looks just like the effect you created with CS5.

[Gus Hallgren]

Thanks Denise;

I'll try clean (Use Adjust often,but not clean, detail, in focus or remask [I'm hopeless with remask]) in one of my steps if I can remember them, as I used B&W adjustments, PB, high black clip 4 in S/H with amount to 4 (0 turns off clip) a couple of times even a quick threshold dragging to right, too much seat of my pants. Most of my different experiments I write down..

Gus aka The Mad Painter

[denise ippolito]

Thanks Gus!

[Indranil Sircar]

Very nice, Gus. Agree that clean bg makes the sketch stand out. Excellent processing.

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi;

Now, I think I got it????? The background, if that is where the "Clean" comes from? How I did my BG, First press "D" so I know I have a pure white 255,255,255 BG in Color Picker. Then I get dimensions of Image, Then I click File>New then chose dimensions I got from image, same resolution 72, choose Background>OK>Save. I open Image & BG to same viewing size. Open BG, press V (Move). Then move image over BG. I then cut the image out, give it a default curves "Linear Contrast" to even it out then a low Smart Sharpen about 15 to crisp it out > Sig>Ctrl+E and then File>Save for Web & Device which is setup-JPEG, Quality to keep size under 251K, Check in convert to RGB, Metadata-All (So you can get Iexif) Quality-Bicubic>Save.

If Topaz Clean will do that? Please tell me, How

Gus

[denise ippolito]

Wow Gus, Thanks so much!!

[Paul Lagasi]

Gus..how did you get such nice ink lines, I've tried many times without luck...nice work

[Cynthia Thayer]

wonderful work, Gus.