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A Beautiful Butterfly!

Image of a Blue Morpho Butterfly at the Butterfly Rainforest in Gainesville, Florida.

This was just a fun image to do. This is a Blue Morpho Buttterfly and was definitely one of the butterflies that stood out when at the Butterfly Rainforest in Gainesville, Florida. It looks like she is studying the artwork. Just did a few things with this image. In Lightroom used an old preset from Blake Rudis called HDR 4 – Exagerado. I don’t usually use presets but did not this one. In Photoshop ran Topaz DeNoise AI on this image, but only applied it to the green foliage on the left and on the actual body of the butterfly. I did not want to remove the natural texture from the rest of the image. Added a Gradient Map Adjustment Layer set to a brown to clear gradient set to Overlay blend mode at 75% layer opacity. Also added a Color Lookup Adjustment Layer set to Fall Colors preset at 45% layer opacity. Some dodge and burning with done and a Levels Adjustment Layer for a vignette was created and set to 71% layer opacity. Ran a High Pass Sharpen layer. Last step was a Curves Adjustment Layer to add brighten up the midtones a little more. That was it!….. Digital Lady Syd

09/17/2020 | Categories: Photoshop Filters | Tags: | Leave A Comment »

Zooming Man a Ray

Image of a Man a Ray at the Jacksonville Zoo

Just had some fun with this image. Used Topaz (see sidebar for website link) DeNoise AI Clear, Topaz Sharpen AI, and Topaz Studio Motion Blur. Other than that just had to draw in a few lines that were a bit too blurred from the motion. The font is modernline. A Color Lookup Adjustment Layer was applied and a spotlight effect was added just to his nose. ….. Digital Lady Syd

09/09/2020 | Categories: Photoshop Filters, Topaz Studio | Tags: , , | Leave A Comment »

My Favorite Lemur

Image of Gulliver, a Coquerel Sifaka Lemur at the Jacksonville Zoo

This guy is my favorite Lemur – a Coquerel’s Sifaka Lemur – at the Jacksonville Zoo. Definitely a very friendly male who is always glad to say “Hi” when you come by his exhibit. Luminar 4 (see sidebar for website link) was used on the image and of course Viveza. I love working on the beautiful animal images from this Zoo…..Digital Lady Syd

08/31/2020 | Categories: Photoshop Filters | Tags: , | Leave A Comment »

The Wildfire

Image of Spanish Moss forest in yellow and oranges

This image is actually of trees covered with Spanish Moss, but apparently I got carried away thinking about all the fires in the West and ended up with a very scary image. Some think it actually looks like a really sunny day in Autumn. I actually turned this image into a black and white with Nik Silver Efex Pro. The birds were created in Corel Particle Shop. Then a Gradient Map was applied to add this brilliant orange and yellow effect using a gradient made up of reds and oranges and yellows and set to Color Burn blend mode. On separate layers painted in clouds that looked like smoke in brown, beige, yellow and orange. Then back into Particle Shop to add some more smoke effects. Used Viveza to add the final border vignette and that was about it. It was fun to just take an image and see what can be done with it!…..Digital Lady Syd

08/28/2020 | Categories: Photoshop Filters | Tags: , , | Leave A Comment »

Enjoying a Covered Patio

Image of a covered patio at the Garlic Restaurant in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Had some fun with the beautiful lighting of this covered patio at The Garlic Restaurant in New Smyrna, Florida. Lots of nice tables outside to enjoy a refreshment before the evening arrives. This image was a bit hard to post-process due to the lighting issues. Luminar 4 was used to get the rich colors (I find this Photoshop plugin is great for this – see sidebar for website link) and Viveza was able to draw the focus to the correct areas. A few Adjustment Layers to lighten and darken some parts of the image and that was about it. Wish I lived closer to this place – a great place to have dinner!…..Digital Lady Syd

08/23/2020 | Categories: Photoshop Filters | Tags: , | Leave A Comment »

Standing Guard at the Hospital

Image of the Spanish Military Hospital Museum in St. Augustine, Florida

This image was taken a while back of the Spanish Military Hospital Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. What I was trying to do was get an interesting texture on the building. This was done using one of my very favorite Photoshop plugins, Luminar 4 (see sidebar for website link). By following one of their fun videos on YouTube called Create an Antique Faded Look by Darlene Hildebrandt, the effect was created. The Essentials Color filter, Creative Matte Look filter, and the Professional Split Toning (Amount 50 and Shadows Hue 56 and Sat 60) were applied to get the antique effect. Then Lucis Pro 6.09 (which appears to be no long available unfortunately) was used to get really cool color wash look. Just a lot of fun. ….. Digital Lady Syd

08/12/2020 | Categories: Photoshop Filters | Tags: , | Leave A Comment »

Sleeping Boats

Image of the Wood Boats at at the Hilton Waikoloa Village resort on the The Big Island in Hawaii.

I have to admit I am a lover of wood boats and this is probably one of the reasons I loved the Hilton Waikoloa Village resort on the Big Island in Hawaii. They have a wonderful long waterway where you can ride in the boats as long as you want – at night the stars are incredible to see. I will not go over all the detail used on this image but it took me forever to get it to look good. Just used all my workflow and a few paint and clone tricks to even everything out. And I did use Topaz (see sidebar for website link) Sharpen AI – it did a fabulous job on this particular image – this program just keeps getting better and better! …..Digital Lady Syd

08/06/2020 | Categories: Photoshop Filters | Tags: | Leave A Comment »

Butterflies Posing in Abstract

Image of two butterflies painted in abstract.

Continued having some fun with the Art History Tool in Photoshop (see my Creating an Art History Action blog for more info on this). Just added a few clean up layers after running the action and then used Viveza to direct the eye to the butterfly. This was a lot of fun to do as I really love these bright colors!…..Digital Lady Syd

08/04/2020 | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »

New Guinea Singing Dog – Singing?

This was one of the cutest animals I have ever seen in a zoo – this one at the Palm Beach Zoo – seemed totally happy. He also had a buddy running around outside his doghouse. Just used a lot of different filters here – Topaz DeNoise AI (this filter is getting really good!), Luminar 4 (this program is becoming my go-to plugin for cleaning up an image – it is incredible) (see sidebar for website link), and an Exposure Adjustment Layer for the eyes. And then several individual layers were used to just clean up some of the edges of his face, muzzle and ears using an erodible brush by Aaron Blaise. That was it!…..Digital Lady Syd

07/30/2020 | Categories: Photoshop Filters | Tags: , | Leave A Comment »

Fisherman’s Cabin

This image was created using one of Shorpy.com’s great images called Fisherman’s Cabin-Shore Road-Magnolia-Cloucester-Massachusetts, cc1905. This image was run through the Image Colorizer (see my How to Colorize Using Image Colorizer blog for info on this) first, then after some clean up in PS before taking the image into Topaz Studio 2 where Impression, Edges, and Color Theme filters were applied. Then the image was taken into Corel Painter and the image was painted over where the canned Impression program left stroke I did not like. Back in PS, the Mixer brushes were used to do the final clean up on the image. Lots of fun to do!…..Digital Lady Syd

07/28/2020 | Categories: Corel Painter, Photoshop Painting, Topaz Studio, Uncategorized | Tags: , | Leave A Comment »

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