Mist trees

It's always nice rediscovering forgotten photos on your hard drive, this one is from this past winter. It was taken early one morning as we were travelling to our winter hut. There had been a frost and the morning mist had just lifted. Scenes softened slightly by mist are like gold for textural artists!

So the processing
Sissinghurst @ soft light 53% (this helped soften and give a painterly touch)
Tapis Vert @ Overlay 53% masked from the foreground using a graduated mask
Copy of background @ Soft light 100% masked from the foreground as above.
Orris @ overlay 86% (added mainly to enhance the colours)
And it was done. All textures are from the new Flypaper Autumn Painterly pack.
See it larger on flickr

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$40

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 Texboxes 1&2, Fly edges, Spring, Summer and Autumn painterly

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Sweet Peas

Sweet peas, I love them!  When I was coming home from a walk yesterday afternoon, I ran into a neighbour who was cutting back her sweet peas which grow on a  fence by the footpath and asked if I could have some seeds as hers are particularly nice ones and have looked wonderful for the past month.  Can't wait to have a display like hers!

I gave this photo the soft effect, I find it suits flowers especially selectively focused ones like these. When we were putting together the Autumn pack, I made sure we included some soft easy to use textures especially for my flowers :-)
To start with I improved the tones by using Nik Efex White Neutralizer
then...
L'oxygene @ soft light 100% masked from the focus flowers
Aotea mist @ soft light 100% softly masked from the flowers
Aotoea mist @ soft light 100% masked as above
I find that doubling the texture layer often makes all the difference even if the blending mode and opacity is identical.
All textures are from the Autumn Painterly pack
See it slightly larger on Flickr

Autumn Painterly Pack

40 rectangular (4000 by 5000 px) Textures 

$40

Spring Painterly Pack

40 Large Textures (38 square and two huge rectangles) for only

$40

Summer Painterly Pack

36 large textures for only $40

Complete Flypaper Package

 Texboxes 1&2, Fly edges, Spring, Summer and Autumn painterly

$220

Flypaper Triple Combo Deal
$100 for Tex Box One and Two and the Fly Edges

Combo Pack Offer

Only $65 for Tex Box One and  Tex Box Two

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Albion on Sea

From Jill and I, 'Paul' hope you all had Happy Holidays! :-)
As its now midwinter, I thought it might be nice to revisit the summer,
last August on a balmy evening on England's Eastborne beach at sunset.
One good thing about post-processing is its always possible to go back and redo images with your new skills and textures, and I must admit I don't do it enough!

So armed with our new Flypaper Autumn Painterly and last Summer's Painterly Set,
I happily came across this unprocessed image.
Firstly to zap up the colours a little I used the new Nik 4
From now on I'll also try to include my NiK colour settings, and here's the first!

To get a nice green tone in the blue sky, I used Nik 4
Bi color filters no.1 (yellow brown) @18% Opacity, 100% Blend.
At this stage I also removed text on the red signs and blurred the guys face,
with an eye to selling the image without a release, this saves loads of later re-processing!

Textures
Orris - Soft Light @ 100% blue at top cleaned up with noise and dust
Stonehenge - Vivid Light @ 20% over sky area only
Pans Sky - Soft Light @ 65% over sky area mostly
Ambergris - Hard Light @ 17%

Autumn Painterly Pack

40 rectangular (4000 by 5000 px) Textures 

$40

Spring Painterly Pack

40 Large Textures (38 square and two huge rectangles) for only

$40

Summer Painterly Pack

36 large textures for only $40

Complete Flypaper Package

 Texboxes 1&2, Fly edges, Spring, Summer and Autumn painterly

$220

Flypaper Triple Combo Deal
$100 for Tex Box One and Two and the Fly Edges

Combo Pack Offer

Only $65 for Tex Box One and  Tex Box Two

Fly Edges Pack

Only $40

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