[ADK_Jim]

This is a photo of trees that overhang the river near where I live. I've played with it a lot, using filters to remove detail, adjusted the tones and saturation then added detail back in with a transparent top layer. Finally I added the border in Paint Shop Pro.


ADK Jim

[guerito]

Lovely shot! I love the contrast of the red and green foliage, and the black twigs. It's a bit like a japanese ink painting, isn't it?

[Toad]

Looks great, Jim. Was it Bizz that you used to simplify the detail?

[Irma]

I like the clever way you composed your picture using the contrast in the reflection.
Very nice post processing as well, beutiful colors....

[ADK_Jim]

I used a buZZ filter for the detail reduction. I made a duplicate layer, applied buZZ Simplifier 1 at 381 (if I remember correctly), then did a defog layer (USM at 15/60/0). I topped it saturation adj layer and a curves adj layer. Finally I duplicated the base layer again, dragged it above the defog and below the adj layers and set the opacity to 20% to pull back in a little of the original detail.

I'm not real happy with the frame. I bought the new Pain Shop Pro Program and it is one of the frames included there but I'm not crazy about most of the frames in version X2. I still have ver. 9 on my XP machine. I may try to copy some of the frames from that and put them into PSP X2. I will probably end up buying or making some to get a variety of ones I like.

[Toad]

I thought I recognized the Buzz simplifier - it is my by far my favorite 3rd party PhotoShop plugin and I use it a lot.I usually apply the filter to a higher degree of simplification than I actually want - and then fade it back to 50% or less in Luminosity or Darken mode. Nice to see someone else use it effectively.

[DJ1234]

looks great

D.J.

[ADK_Jim]

I tried other filters that simplified images but none worked as well or had the control of buZZ. I got buZZ Simplifier as a freebee with a British photo magazine that I bought and ended up buying their whole suite of filters a couple of years later when Fot2Pix had a special sale that threw them in with Photo Art Master Gold which I like also. I'm having trouble with Photo Art Master on Vista though. I wrote them when I first got my new PC and they told me to run it as the administrator and it would work. It did for a while but now it has taken to crashing every time I try and the Fot2Pix website seems to be down. Too bad. I was hoping there would be upgrades available.

[Janika]

Too cool, now is the time, but up here not too many left on the trees.

John

[wulinka]

beautiful!

you could try to render the hue of the water slightly more blueish, so as to increase warm-cold contrast between the water and the leaves.

Uli