Photoshop "Layers" … Helps Me through Boredom, "Artist's Block and Lousy Weather
On days when I am not particularly motivated and the weather says "No Fishing," I frequently go through old images and combine two or more using the Photoshop "Layers" feature, edit with other software and hope for decent results.
The thicket is along a back road in the Pocono Mountains, the hawk was flying over my back yard in Philly, and, the sunburst came from a photo editing application.
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The image at the top left is comprised of treed from Walt Disney World, a full moon photographed from my street in Philly, and the flock of birds … I can't remember :
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Have not been for most of the day - many tests of my eyes at the hospital. My editing program does not have a layering facility, but I will post something a little later. I liked both your examples. That hawk has certainly had a lot of flights on your photos. LOL.
I'm here Mac.
I like the photos and thanks for posting them.
Thanks for being a friend!
May be combined but it is a great pic. I would even think of maybe cutting it in half, chop off some of the left side.
I like the one with the hawk.
Right now though my pine trees have a load of snow on them.
I like to get into the woods right after a snow … before humans get in and spoil the perfection …
Like this …
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I think you've taken that shot before, but in a more summery environment......
Beautiful.....
I also like the undisturbed fallen snow, when it is "perfect"
I actually thought I lost the shot from my data base … but yesterday I found a small external drive in a box of usb cables … it's loaded with stuff I thought was gone forever.
Oh! Happy Day!
Ah, the rare pleasure of finding photos thought lost - I can't wait for you to start posting them.
It works my friend.....
Thanks … going to cut in in half as per Ender's suggestion.
Hang on …
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I think that ender was right. Really like the composition.
Not bad Brother, but then I like the vista presentation......
I would have moved the tree a hair to the right then narrowed it up a bit horizontally and used a 4/3 presentation...
Got a question though....
Is the sunflare on a layer? or is it an overall effect? I think the presentation would be better with the crespicular rays coming under and down from the clouds rather than over them..... Would cut down on the middle image flash effect but still have a focus on the subject..... (would probably also reduce center greying also)
Nice edit....
That one is waaaaaaaay Cool !
Isn't that what the voice coming from the burning bush said?
Yeah … but who's gonna' believe anything that Charlton Heston said?
I believe what he said about not being able to pry his gun from his cold dead hand - I saw photos of his arsenal, and in fact I posted them on an article on NT a long time ago.
Hawk picture is very good, combining 3 images turned out very interesting
We all have different tastes - personally, I would not make any changes to the hawk photo - I like it the way it is best.
Bird of Paradise?
Can you picture this as a painting hanging on your wall?
That is a cool picture, where is it? It could be in Shenandoah Valley, Canada, American West or China
I took the photo in the Chinese countryside and did some editing to make it look like a painting.
Looks like a few places here in Shenandoah Valley, I drove through a gap like that to work for several years. I enjoyed my drive.
Out of boredom I did some editing myself:
And this one:
And I did this for fun:
Boredom can be a great motivator!