Driadby
GreetmirComment by raish: Shame. It's a great subject/shot, but it looks as though there's a little movement blur there as well as the soft focus. BTW, as I understand it, dryads are tree spirits, so that to call it a tree dryad is just a touch tautological, maybe.
I think you've done about as much as can be done, and well. I wanted to try something for the blurred/fuzzy lines. Don't know if it helped or could help...
I found a
tutorial/guide here which makes a line drawing out of a picture. It doesn't, really, but you have to try it and see. I thought maybe if you could try that :
*duplicate background layer
*desaturate new layer
*duplicate new layer
*invert new layer
*set blending mode to 'color dodge'
*select Blur/Gaussian blur in the filter menu
*play with the slider and watch the line drawing appear
I did all that and increased the contrast a little, before combining the visible layers (i.e. the new ones, the background layer has to be invisible) and then brought back the background layer and chose 'multiply' for the adjusted layer(s)
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Did it help? You could always mask out parts of it if you decide where the lines need to be made more definite.
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