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Whisper Wings
Whisper Wings
Elvis_L


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Date: Oct 11, 2006
Date Uploaded: Oct 11, 2006

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 Day one of the 30 day macro challenge.

cloned out a little bit on the middle of the butterfly.
applied a gradient map using black to brown with a 86% opacity, masking off the butterfly.
made a layer puting some hard bristle brush marks in black with 51% opacity.
made a layer in soft light and painted the white lines.
copied the lines layer and changed to overlay mode.
added cracks using a cracks brush I have in black set to overlay mode then 66% opacity then masked of msot of it with about 40% opacity on the brush.
selective color layer to get the buterfly more orange.
flatened then copied the background layer and used a ripple filter then set to overlay mode a reduced opacity.
added border.

here is the original if you are interested.

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 01/24/2007 06:19:10 PM
Sweet edit here man... I've gotta check your portfolio more often.
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 11/03/2006 12:17:32 PM
Hey Bro! Thanks for the kind comments in the forum, you do the Lawson name well yourself! Great gallery of creative images!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/22/2006 09:09:59 AM
very impressive!
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 10/22/2006 01:47:18 AM
Beautiful colors, I think i prefer the original background though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2006 06:02:50 PM
Really great job! Lovely restrained post processing.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/13/2006 05:59:32 PM
The processing is great, reminds me of -dax (Bea)'s pictures, but in a sort of much more "male" version (if that makes sense). I like it. Fighter butterfly it could be also.
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 10/12/2006 07:55:12 PM
Beautiful shot. I love what you've done with it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2006 02:39:21 PM
Very good and very creative :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2006 10:43:35 AM
Thats beautiful and quite a work of art!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2006 10:00:00 AM
I love the colors and what yu did with the background. Big jump from the original, very cool.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2006 09:11:03 AM
Wonderful processing here, and this is just amazing.....well done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2006 01:08:12 AM
i like it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2006 01:05:19 AM
very cool processing! I like the ripples.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/11/2006 09:40:08 PM
SUPERB!!!!!!!Just a lovely finished image.
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 10/11/2006 09:14:20 PM
Holy cow thats alot of difference from the original. I actually prefer the original but its a nice composition.
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 10/11/2006 08:55:54 PM
Elvis, this is amazing! And gorgeous! I love that you included the steps but will have to admit I have no clue what you're talking about in some cases - I'll figure it out (like brushes, for instance - never have tried 'em.) Really lovely.
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 10/11/2006 08:50:04 PM
Great processing. It really turned the photo into a work of art.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/11/2006 08:41:40 PM
Your post-processing did a super job!
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 10/11/2006 08:32:49 PM
I really like what you've done. Thanks for listing all the steps, too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/11/2006 08:29:20 PM
Very nice job! Processed a decent photo into a work of art. ..well, a work of Elvis, I should say.

Thanks for posting the original and the processing steps - the extra time put in for that is always appreciated.

Crack brush? Hmmm, sometimes people comment that they think I used crack on some of my images - I wonder if that's what they meant. ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/11/2006 07:52:34 PM
Dude!! That's beautiful!!
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 10/11/2006 07:39:50 PM
Awesome post processing. It really makes the "ordinary" (though it is very good as well) butterfly shot into something extraordinary.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/11/2006 07:31:37 PM
Wow, great processing!
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 10/11/2006 07:19:40 PM
delightful to see the steps from the original image to the original art you created. Very well conceived and executed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/11/2006 07:18:00 PM
Thanks for posting the details of post-processing! Great imagination and a photoshop technique to match.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/11/2006 07:14:23 PM
Sweet! I absolutely love it - the post process is excellent! I especially like the addition of the swirls - they really help pull the composition together. Thanks for sharing the steps!
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