Post your best bird shots!

[bob williams]

Thanks Ahab. I watched a video the other day that motivated me to get in and do some photoshop work. So as a test run I took one of my HB shots from this summer and tried some of that artsy stuff that Joel and Denise are famous for.

Opened The pic in Lightroom
Desaturated, removed contrast and shadow
Opened in CS6 as a smart object
Copied to a new layer as smart object
Then opened new layer Smart Object in ACR and put all color and contrast back in
Merged the two layers and blended in overlay mode, adjusted opacity a little and tweaked the sliders to taste
flattened the image
then applied the "oil paint" filter and tweaked those sliders to taste

Here is the result: (note--it looks much better on a black background)



What do you think?

Here is the original: