After a few days of gray skies and more to come, I decided to take nature into my own hands. Started with a grayish sunset, upped saturation in Aperture and again in Topaz Adjust. Then used SnapArt to convert to oil painting. Then in aperture increased saturation again. A creative exercise in ETSOOI combined with wishful thinking. 3 days til summer officially ends for me. Still working on Day 3 of Japan photos (thought I'd gotten to Day 4, but no... - sample from Day 3 in extras album - http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2014-08-20 ) 5 days of photos to go. Mmmm...numbers don't seem to be working out in my favor.
Wonderful processing giving a beautiful sunset even if it's not real! Funny how we both did an ETSOOI image today. I forgot that tag on mine! Love yours! Fav!
Well, there ya go — if you can't find it to photograph, create it. Well done. You definitely know how to make various programs work together to produce gorgeous art.
This is awesome! Oil painting effect for this photo was a great idea. Bet this would look so good on canvas...of course all your wonderful photos would look great on canvas!
Such an artistic image. Very cool processing. What is your opinion about Topaz Adjust? I saw that it is on sale this month and am contemplating the purchase. I just don't want it to be more or less a duplicate of other software. I have LR, Nik Software, OnOne Perfect Photo Suite. I would appreciate your take on it!
@pflaume Hi Lisa -- thanks so much for your views and kind comments today! It's so good to see you on the site! I hope you're well. Re Topaz -- I don't have LR and haven't been using OnOne though I have it downloaded. Topaz has a lot of options for more artistic processing, and I'm just learning to use it in a way that I feel like I can control it rather than just using presets. I suspect it is not as hard to learn as I had though -- the sliders threw me a bit at first. In the end, I find there are thing that I can do with it that aren't do-able for me in the systems I have (Nik, Aperture, SnapArt) so when I want to 'have fun' with an image, Topaz is my go-to program, then SnapArt which has less variability. But, since I don't use LR or OnOne, I don't know if it's a duplication or not. Topaz almost always leads me away from representational photography -- it can be used like Color Efex in some basic way, but it's really more for the arty type processing. And for what it's worth -- it's quite a fun processing program.
@taffy Thank you for your response, Taffy! I always appreciate you willingness to share. For what it's worth, I really like OnOne - at least the parts I have figured out. The Perfect Effects program is really fun. Also, the "magic eraser" is great for getting rid of larger/more complicated areas of an image than LR can do.
Looks like a Van Gogh painting with the heavy brush strokes -- I love that you took nature into your hands and created the nature you wanted to project!
