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    Please leave comments on my pics

    Hi, as i'm a complete beginer i would appreciate some feed back on my first attepts!
    Feel free to edit as long as you let me know your secrets.
    I look forward to reading your views

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    project forum co-moderator Frog's Avatar
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    Re: Please leave comments on my pics

    You have pics in your gallery. Post the one you want critiqued here and you'll get replies.
    We're all pretty much too lazy or too smart to go back and forth between gallery and here.
    Looks like you have some pretty good ones. Remember that they can be no longer than 800 on a side here.
    Keep Shooting!

    CHECK OUT THE PHOTO PROJECT FORUM
    http://forums.photographyreview.com/...splay.php?f=34

    Please refrain from editing my photos without asking.

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    Senior Member Anbesol's Avatar
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    Re: Please leave comments on my pics

    I really liked your deer shot, so I had a go at that. First thing I did of course was crop, align the crop so that the deer is level, I liked the tall grass so I kept that in the shot. I then sharpened it using unsharp mask @ 2.5 pixels/100%. Then I made a new layer and painted a white overlay over the top dark background, using a white soft brush (set to overlay, ~200pixel, ~30% hardness, ~40% opacity, 67% flow) to bring out the detail in the dark background. I then painted a black overlay over the deer and foreground to have a darker, more contrasty scene. Upped the saturation a smidgen, resize and posted here. There is a lot more potential in that shot than just what I did though.

    The paintbrush overlay technique took me a while to learn, it can be hard but it gives you a lot of creative control over the final image. Something that always helps is adding seperate layers each time you apply a paintbrush overlay, so you aren't changing the original image, and you can remove the layer and youre back to normal. It is particularly helpful when you accidentally paint too far, you can simple erase the excess as its a whole seperate layer. I hope that makes sense.
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