'Light Snow' ... in a digital darkroom.

[Wild Wassa]

Jetrim, thank you. I like your use of the word cool. I could use some coolness. It is midnighht here and the temperature is still 104F.

For Fire Dragon Blue Range, two JPEG exposures were converted to an HDR, by only using the 'Tone Compression' functions. Then I converted the JPEGs to TIFF files before adding a slightly dark vignette to the the image in Lightroom.

Then I transferred the image to Arcsoft where the grunge layer was blended in and changed the colour saturation slightly and adjusted the colour balance again only slightly before final adjustments to the overall brightness and contrast.

A few trees were changed to look more painterly ... and that was it.

I'm sure some will prefer the first image being softer and less visually harsh but the new image is about summer here.

Warren.