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    Coloring the Sky

    Still learning Layers and Masking, I played with a sunset shot in the GIMP.

    Original capture, none too exciting, IMO:

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    Tarted up, quite stunning ... LOL:

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    Tree line came out a lot better than previous attempts of late.

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    Re: Coloring the Sky

    Agree the treeline has improved Ted.

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    Re: Coloring the Sky

    Nice improvement.

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    Re: Coloring the Sky

    Looking good Ted, although it looks like you are having far too much fun...

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    Re: Coloring the Sky

    Thanks Grahame, Raymond and Manfred.

    I still have much to learn but I can now see the advantages gained.

    Just this very day I was able to post elsewhere a flower shot that had a bothersome background - but no longer after I darkened it and lowered the saturation, the while retaining the flower chroma/lightness and adjusting the flower hue a tad in a desirable direct and, tsk, I might even have upped the chroma a bit. Voila:

    https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63897718

    Fortunately, the background color was a complement of the petal color but even so and for a different subject I could have adjusted the background hue or just colorized it.
    Last edited by xpatUSA; 2nd May 2020 at 06:02 PM. Reason: added "complement" comment

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    Re: Coloring the Sky

    Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post

    Just this very day I was able to post elsewhere a flower shot that had a bothersome background - but no longer after I darkened it and lowered the saturation, the while retaining the flower chroma/lightness and adjusting the flower hue a tad in a desirable direct and, tsk, I might even have upped the chroma a bit. Voila:

    https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63897718

    Fortunately, the background color was a complement of the petal color but even so and for a different subject I could have adjusted the background hue or just colorized it.
    Nice images. (I read the "Voila" before the link as "Viola" and although it's not, it sort of looks like it could have been that too).

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    Re: Coloring the Sky

    Quote Originally Posted by billtils View Post
    Nice images. (I read the "Voila" before the link as "Viola" and although it's not, it sort of looks like it could have been that too).
    Or violeta for that matter!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post
    Or violeta for that matter!!

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