While down south to help install a water heater at my son's house last weekend, Sunday morning dawned with some beautiful fog. Much as I wanted to chase that fog down to the lake, the babies were too close to waking up, and of course, when Nana's there, Nana is ALWAYS with those precious little people when they're awake! So I settled for capturing one of the trees in the front yard. And I have STRUGGLED to get this photo to do justice to that fog for a week now!
SO! CreativeLive has been running Photoshop Week 2016 this past week, which I TOTALLY forgot about until Thursday, but at least I caught a couple days of it. Anyway, watching their videos spurred all kinds of creativity, and I learned a lot, AND I went ahead and took the plunge and upgraded (updated?) to CC's 2015 versions of both PS and LR (I always hate updating because so often I feel like I have to relearn everything), but the updated version of PS brought back the Oil Painting filter, and the updated LR has the Dehaze function I keep hearing some of you talk about. But after updating I had to find and link my plug-ins again which reminded me that I had some Macphun software that I got with my Wacom tablet last fall that I had never installed ... SO! This photo is processed in b&w with Macphun's Tonality Pro and then added the Oil Painting effect in PS. And I finally came up with a version I liked. Mostly. If I hadn't already spent so much time on the technical aspects of the programs, I would have had more energy and patience to perfect the processing. Not sure what more I think it needs, maybe it's still too drab, but this will do for now.
