Painted Horse

[Christopher Miller]

Dusted off the old DAP in memory of Dave. I added four textures, some falling snow, and an orton effect to this photo of one of the farm ponies. I then applied DAP using Benson, my favorite preset, and partially masked it off the pony.

[Paul Lagasi]

Chris, nice image. This would make a lovely card, great effects and composition. I might lighten the bottom right corner and the area near the mussle of the horse. Lovely work.

[denise ippolito]

Christopher, You have really mastered the use of textures and creating soft effects. This is lovely I wouldn't change a thing.

[Sandy McMillan]

Being a horse person, I just love this. This is soooo beautiful. Were the snowflakes there or did you add it somehow? Love it!!!

[Judy Howle]

Beautiful Christopher! I love the painted effect and the snowflakes. Very nice work, one of my favorites of yours!

[Christopher Miller]

Sandy, I added the snowflakes in Photoshop. I used Dave Seeram's Snowscape action, you can find it here.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! I've been working on a whole series of pony-in-the-snow images like this, so you'll see more.

[John Ippolito]

Absolutely lovely to look at this one, Christopher! Very nicely crafted, and I agree, it is perfect as is. Excellent.

[Indranil Sircar]

Christopher, this is excellent! I love the soft effect and colors. Looking forward to more from the series

[Dave Mills]

Nice job with the use of effects along with good placement of the horse...

[Brendan Dozier]

Very nice composition, Christopher! Nice job with textures and love the falling snow effect. Agree about lightening the LRC a bit. Thanks for the link and looking forward to more from the series.

[Anita Bower]

Wonderful image! Love the pony's pose. Excellent textures and effects. I wouldn't change anything. Lovely to see one of your images.

[Christopher Miller]

Thanks everyone!

[Cheryl Slechta]

Christopher, sorry I'm late but this is perfect in every way! I can hardly wait to see more of them