03-12-2008, 08:30 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxford, UK
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It looks like a painting to me but the light isn't very well balanced (flash?).
I made three adjustments.
1. Cropping to avoid the very over-exposed flowers in the foreground.
2. I created a duplicate layer and brightened it a lot using the curves tool. I then added a graduated layer mask to blend this into the layer below, so that the brightness was more even from top to bottom.
3. Having blended those two, I duplicated the new layer and applied the oilify artistic filter to make it look even more painted. I reduced the opacity of this layer so that some of the detail from below is visible, adding a bit more subtlety to the result.
Wulf
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