Editing a nature photo

[micanki]

before


after


1-i made a new layer
2-flip the the new horizontal
3-change the layer options (i don't remember)
4-b&w
5-a little sepia color

and that what i got
so what do you think?

thank you

[royey123]

Personally, I like the original better. Its good pp but you sucked the "life" right out of it

[Chaotic Beds]

The background is too busy for me - it competes with the stem for my attention, and almost camouflages it.

Otherwise, I love it. The shape of the stem, its position in the frame, and the post processing is beautiful... I can imagine it being an awesome shot if the background was more uniformly bright or dark, or less textured.

TFS

[RecurrentNerve]

It needs some seperation between the fore and background elements. Try selecting an area around the stem, feather it by 150px or so, then use a Levels adjustment layer to brighten slightly. Then select the stem (lasso/pen tool) and fill that area with black (on the Levels mask) to bring the stem back to normal.

Check out the second post of this thread to see what I mean.

[Misiu Kolorowy]

Originally Posted by Chaotic Beds

The background is too busy for me - it competes with the stem for my attention, and almost camouflages it.

Otherwise, I love it. The shape of the stem, its position in the frame, and the post processing is beautiful... I can imagine it being an awesome shot if the background was more uniformly bright or dark, or less textured.

TFS

I also think that the background is too busy too much going on and you have hard time too see the main object

[micanki]

thanks alot

[clayhilda55]

I wonder how you put new background? also think background is a bit distracting.