Butterflies Enjoying the Early Morning

Had some fun with these beautiful butterflies trying out a new tutorial from Glyn Dewis on Creating Realistic Clouds in Photoshop – he used it on a sky photo but I thought I would try it to add a nice soft sunlight effect in this image, which was taken at the Florida Museum’s Butterfly Rainforest in Gainesville, Florida. The image was in pretty good shape out-of-camera so not much was done to the actual photo. Topaz (see sidebar for website link) Sharpen AI was used on the butterflies. The fog was adjusted so accentuate the butterflies and add the fog on the background areas. A Solid Color Adjustment Layer was clipped to the fog to give it the soft yellow sunlight feel – used the Colors White drop-down field and put sliders to Cyan +31%, Magenta +8%, Yellow +28% and Black -39%. On top added one of my Color Lookup presets and set it to 78% layer opacity. Otherwise a few clean up layers were added. These butterflies look so perky!…..Digital Lady Syd