If your audience was monolithic, you may get away with this, however, ....

You MUST define your audience before you create your poster! Art designed to bring in a millennial will miss a generation Z. Perceived household income level will make as much difference in how you must attract and hold attention.

In today's environment, my previous suggestion (a little skin) would basically be rejected out of hand. You absolutely must understand your audience - their needs, aspirations, desires, and social values - if you miss one of these, your poster fails. Once you have found what your audience wants to see or hear, then you can drop any product into that form. If you hit them right, you really can sell refrigerators to eskimoes.

As an old Submariner, I am almost required to answer with "A little skin..."

So many people take sunsets over water and when the sun disappears, the people turn their backs and leave. Your photo shows why we always stay for the golden glow because the best most saturated pictures of the sunset occur in the 15 - 30 minutes following the actual sunset.

Nice capture and I think the trees in the foreground add to the setting.

That is an interesting light - I don't believe I have seen a similar design on the lakes.

The answer is "yes"

Do yourself a favor - forget the technical aspects of photography for a while. recover that P&S camera and learn to shoot pictures then learn the technical aspects of Photography.

You may never comprehend a good photograph (I have worked with MEs before) a good photography composition course may allow you to fake it adequately.

Seriously, there are people that naturally see with an artistic vantage point but will never understand the technology of a camera, and there are people that can only look at photography and see the rays of light bending through the refractor and will understand how those photons create a voltage and how that is converted to bits. Most people lie somewhere between those two extremes.

The physical blessing you have received will give you the patience to study a scene and choose how to present that scene to allow you to tell the story you want/need to tell. With a composition course and being able to understand how the human brain processes photos, I believe you will astound yourself.

Good Luck and post a picture here every now and then and there are those here that will help you.

I love your shade of blue!

If you look in the bag of a monochrome photographer, you will invariably see a kit with many, many single colored and graduated color filters to control the relationship between colors. these filters are necessary whether applied in camera, in your RAW converter, or in Paintshop Pro or Photoshop. I believe I would continue to shoot in RAW and then you can adjust your filter pack in RAW or post to obtain the balance you are looking for. A lot of the technique of B&W is selection of paper hardness as well The difference between matt, lustre, gloss, pearl, or metallic is more important in B&W than it is in color photography.

One example: Shoot your girlfriend (we won't tell your wife) with her bright red sweater and lipstick to match and use a red filter and you will find her green eyes are very dark and her lipstick and sweater are a shade of white - not very flattering - do it in the camera body and it will be hard to recover.

yes, it is easy to forget... And it is easy to forget to adjust your seat, then the steering wheel, the mirrors, then fasten your seat belt, then start your car and check all the gauges so you know if you have to stop and get gas. And, of course you check to see how long until you need an oil change. And did you walk around your car to check of unknown objects and tire condition.

yes, it is easy to forget. - you don't fly airplanes or operate Nuclear Reactors do you?

I'm with Joe. It is a nice scene, but what are you saying? In the same way that a sentence needs a subject, a photograph needs a subject.

The other thing I notice is you have an attention line (hey, follow me) leading from the middle of the picture right out to the parking lot. In the west, when we look at an image, our eyes generally enter the photo near the bottom left and will find and follow light. In this picture, you find that light line starting at the center and leading your eyes out of the picture. If you put this picture up and walk up to it, you will find that you only look at the picture for a second or so because your eyes leave the picture.

I grew up in the Kodak era - Michigan State parks actually located turnouts and rest areas on the trails designed to accommodate photographers, making sure that from the resting area, you could set up and get a great shot of the local attraction complete with overhanging branches that were not in the way but capable of providing perspective.

Near these areas, on the trail, one would normally find a routed signboard advising "Take only pictures, leave only footprints"

Are they banned as well for the painting workshops?

So I was inside, behind glass doors (it is in the teens here) shooting birds at the feeder when this guy came into my vision flying directly in from off property. He never landed at the feeder - I collected two shots 1/100 sec apart and the second frame is devoid of birds. If I hadn't had my finger on the shutter I would have missed this. Note that the background is ice on the river and snow everywhere.

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Duplicate the PDF layer, and then put a raster layer under the page with the notes. color the layer . then, use your eraser to erase the black of the notes in the pdf layer. Do all the red notes, then merge the layers. put a new raster layer underneath with the blue notes and erase the top layer again. merge the two layers and keep going. throw away all the layers you don't need and then save the final merged layer as a JPG. You should be able to print this JPG as a PDF.

I was able to do this in PaintShopPro 2018 so it should work in PS cc

I respectfully disagree with those that think less of you than you think of yourself. I think your signature says a lot about you, big, bold, informal, balanced against Song of Solomon 2:17, at the front of the church, on the left side of the chapel....