The Grace of Rhododendrons

Found these rhododendrons growing in a local Lowes Home and Garden Store and thought I would give my Android phone a spin by capturing a RAW image. I was overall pretty pleased with it. Topaz (see sidebar for website link) Sharpen was used to sharpen it up a little in PS – the background showing the store was removed and a texture from Daily Textures called Explorations 6 was added. A Color Lookup Adjustment Layer was applied using one of my favorite presets (from Photofocus’s Landscape presets) called Africa at 87% layer opacity. Flypaper’s Adriana texture was added on top and set to Pin Light at 73% layer opacity. One of the coolest trick I learned from Karen Alsop and that is to paint over the far edges of items to soften the effect and draw attention away from that part of the image. Just use a soft round 25 pixel brush with only Smoothing on and set the Opacity to 12% and Flow to 24% – then just sample the background color and paint on the edges on a new layer. Can adjust the layer opacity as needed. The font is called Modernline by Ef Studio. Really love these flowers!…..Digital Lady Syd