daninr8 wrote:
Love it. What did you do to get it that way?
I used three programs. From LR, I opened the image in CS6.
1. Cropped the image area with cropping tool.
2. Made duplicate layer to work on.
3. I selected the sky with the magic wand tool set in contiguous mode on the new layer. I usually turn off the bottom (original layer so as not to tamper with it accidentally).
3. Using the content aware too,l I eliminated any items in the sky eg., loose feathers, wter dropplets, background objects, etc. It was already pretty clean, so it wasn't too difficult.
4. Inverted the selection for the sky to select the geese. Exported image into OnOne Effects in suite 8.
5. Pulled up HDR filter and tweeked the geese to my liking with the sliders.
6. Added a new layer in OnOne, and added the texture mask with the color and frame I wanted.
7.Painted out the filter for the mask over the geese.
8. Brought it back into CS6 to clean up any extra artifacts an/or shapes generated by the filters.
9. Used very soft brush to lighten the orange background to have the sunset effect.
10. Optimized it for the web in Tony Kuyper web sharpening actions.
11. Posted it here for you to see.
12. Hopefully answered your question adequately. :thumbup: ;-)