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07/31/2005 10:04:41 AM · #1 |
First of all I just want to say thanks to everyone who commented on my texture entry. It tied my record of 15 comments (my wacky foods entry which I thought for sure would be dead last). Anyway, I have been playing around with Neatimage and it appears that (for this particular challenge) it may have been the reason most people didn't get the texture. I was going for the soft feel of touching the petals and I just didn't do a good job of it. The original picture was cropped and I "removed" the color in Photoshop to get the B&W. This is what I had before using Neatimage. 
I thought it looked too grainy and not very soft at all, plus a little bit blurry too. So I put it in Neatimage and this is what I came up with and entered in the challenge. 
This is a saved for web copy of the original image.
Any suggestions on how I could have done it better? How about the before and after Neatimage, did it help? I probably just picked the wrong photo to start with, which brings me back to my second reason I'm having a good week. I just sold my first photo! 
I was one of my outtakes for the Landmarks challenge, and probably the one I should have went with in the first place!
Oh well, live and learn. And thanks again DPC!
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Message edited by author 2005-07-31 10:06:35. |
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08/01/2005 09:40:43 AM · #2 |
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08/01/2005 10:12:20 AM · #3 |
The image lacks contrast - in actual contrast and in texture - perhaps a different crop or angle to show the thorns and the flower?
I played and got this..not sure it is much better.
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