Filters

I wanted to filter some untouched photos as well as some that I've already displayed. First, the picture of my husband that I experimented on with the dodge and burn tools in my previous post. Now I have also added a radial blur to the blue tube while leaving everything seen through the tube untouched by the blur. This added motion to the tube and enhanced my husband's presence as the primary focus of this image.

For something a bit more obvious, I took one of my previous landscape pictures that wasn't as successful and applied an Artistic palette knife filter to it. I thought this gave the image more of a Monet feel, which made it more interesting.

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For this sunset I wasn't really happy with how visible my neighbor's house was  because I thought it detracted from the sunset itself. I could have used the burn tool to darken this, but I thought it would be interesting to try out some atmospheric filters. So, I added a duplicate layer, applied the Render clouds filter, added a layer mask, and used the brush tool with black and white to remove clouds from where I didn't want them and to brighten or darken the clouds that I did want to keep. I thought the clouds gave this picture more of a story and added an interesting feel as though the ground had been covered in a fog that was either starting to dissipate or starting to build up as the sun goes down.

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