The image appears lifeless and overly dark to me. I applied a skin smoothing filter in Topaz Detail 3, boosted the vibrance, warmed the temp slightly and lightened the shadows. I used a layer mask to remove most of the smoothing from the birds. One of many ways to process the image, may not suit your vision.
Camperjim wrote:
Well, if you want more painterly, there are ways....
CamperJim,
Not really, just curious about others' thoughts, the contrasts appeal to me juxtaposed to a faux watercolor filter. Normally watercolor, pastels, etc. and HDR are things I avoid and find not very appealing.
ben egbert wrote:
What dose painterly refer to in an image?
From answers.com
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter; artistic.
1. Having qualities unique to the art of painting.
2. Of, relating to, or being a style of painting marked by openness of form, with shapes distinguished by variations of color rather than by outline or contour.
Oregon Gal wrote:
The image appears lifeless and overly dark to me. I applied a skin smoothing filter in Topaz Detail 3, boosted the vibrance, warmed the temp slightly and lightened the shadows. I used a layer mask to remove most of the smoothing from the birds. One of many ways to process the image, may not suit your vision.
Thanks Barbara,
Certainly yours is a more complete rendition than the original. Somehow my processing tendencies more often than not seem to land on a side darker than most prefer
Thanks, people have said my stuff is painterly on occasion, never knew what it meant. I have never done it on purpose and would not really know how to do it.
ben egbert wrote:
Thanks, people have said my stuff is painterly on occasion, never knew what it meant. I have never done it on purpose and would not really know how to do it.
In this case it was collateral damage from post-processing
