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This is another one from the Topaz Studio. Some of you were interested in the Studio, it's free to download and whatever Topaz Software you have will run in side it. The special effects are extra. Someone said you can do the same effects with Photoshop. True. It's just easier with Topaz. Just another tool in the box..;)
So, has he completely lost it? No, not the driver, me. Well, who refers to oneself in the third person? That may be one indication of losing it. Actually, no to that as well. Now that I have proven to myself that I am capable of using HDR responsibly, I thought I may as well give into the temptation that devil software is throwing at me and apply this process in a manner that results in something completely different. I always wanted to do a minimalist color image without completely giving up on color because I am addicted to it. Quite like the effect “contrast optimizer” has on the bucket loader. That’s why I cropped top and bottom to feature the loader a bit more prominently. The reason the sides are uncropped is because I liked the effect on the fence to the right of the loader and on the faux brick wall to the left of the loader. And no, not to worry, you won’t see too many of these shots going forward. No sense in getting carried away. Less is usually more unless we are dealing with Marzipan which is powerful enough to make me .…
Raided the grandkids' bag of marbles for this one. I broke the rule of using an odd number of objects - but it works ok I think. As this is from my archives it's inspired me to have another go when I'm able.
used my PSP software for post production .....
This image is Generated using Midjourney V8.1 software then i process in photoshop.
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Prompt..
Moonshiners
A dense, endless pine forest in 1950s rural America, far from highways and city lights. Deep in the shadows sits an old shack - grimy windows, cracked glass, a crooked flickering lantern by the door. Nearby, a moonshine still bubbles over an open pine log fire, copper pipes glowing orange, condensation dripping into mason jars on a makeshift wooden table. The handmade, decades patched setup is illegal but the only trade these men know. Two weathered old timers sit on wooden crates in the muddy clearing, smoking hand rolled cigarettes, sharing slow words and long silences. One has a thick gray beard, the other skin like old leather. They laugh quietly at memories - running moonshine on dark mountain roads, outrunning sheriffs, hiding barrels in barns - laughter tinged with tired sadness. Beside them sits a rusted, barely blue old Ford pickup: eaten bodywork, dented chrome grille, cracked headlight, rotted wooden bed rails. The bed holds rope, rusted tools, feed sacks, and mason jar crates. A shotgun hides under a plaid blanket in the cab. Dusk settles. Fireflies flicker at the tree line. Still smoke drifts through branches. Firelight casts dancing shadows. Rough, worn down, and real - survival built from calloused hands, old machines, and hard lived trust.
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Mainly, I replaced the sky using Luminar 4 in this re-edit. Its amazing AI did this in one click with no painstaking masking needed. Original edit below in Comment section. Whatever your opinion on sky replacement, I like playing around with software to see what it can do.
© AnvilcloudPhotography
Série: Boats & Other Water Craft
Illustrtion/Art
High Quality (HQ) - 3D
Light HDR editing
Software: Windows Paint 3D; Pixlr;
Edições feitas em minhas fotos originais
Lago Paranoá
Deck do Lago Sul
Brasília, Brasil
I am still learning to use my new raya pro software and digged out this image from HK i made 2015. There is a very bright portion of the sky on top of the image but it was not possible to use a filter to darken that part because there is no filter with such a form.
Therefore i originally made three bracketed images (-2EV, 0, +2EV) and merged them with Photomatix for my first edit.
Now i used the Raya Pro software for my second edit and got a much more natural looking result where the colours and saturation are much closer to the original.
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Boisvert and Normand Nature Preserve No2
This location has views of the Soucook River. It's a very peaceful place with ample numbers of benches to sit and enjoy the serenity.
Date: 08/13/2024
Location: Loudon, NH, USA
Equipment: Canon 60D with Canon 18-135mm IS STM
Software: Lightroom Classic
Copyright: Neil Morrill, All Rights Reserved
Hope you enjoy!
NC
Playing around with Tierazon fractal software. Such a fun and easy software tool. Creating fractals is really addictive !
The last part of our visit of the Romanesque churches in Le Puy-en-Velay (central France) now takes us to the one that is possibly the most moving, and certainly the most spectacular of them all: the Saint Michael Chapel, perched on top of the Aiguilhe Rock, an enormous, 82 meters high geological dike made of hard basalt and left standing like a finger sticking out of the plain below by the erosion of all the sediment that once surrounded it.
There is only one way to get there: climb the hard, tall and uneven 268 steps carved out of the basalt, and in doing so, you will be following in the exact footsteps, not only of the millions of Compostela pilgrims that came here over the centuries, but also of innumerable historic figures, among which the Kings of France Charles VII, Louis XI and Charles VIII, who ascended the rock to pray under the humble vaults of the chapel.
According to persistent legends, the first edifice built on top of the rock of Aiguilhe (notice how close the name is to the French word aiguille, i.e., needle) was a Roman temple dedicated to Mercury. No trace of such a sanctuary was ever found by archæologists. The chapel that one can see today was built in two successive phases. First, the initial and very small square chapel, probably with three apses but only two remain today. This was built soon after 950, either by bishop Godescalc (who had been the first French pilgrim of Compostela in 950–51), or more probably by Truannus, dean of the canons of the cathedral chapter, duly authorized by Godescalc. I have not been able to find any definitive evidence pointing to one rather than the other. What is documented, however, is that the finished chapel was consecrated by the said bishop in 961. It was a pre-Romanesque monument.
Secondly, during the late 1000s, the primitive oratory was “surrounded” and augmented by a Romanesque chapel built on the flattened top of the dike. In the process, the probable third apse of the oratory was destroyed to open a way of access between the newly built “nave” and the square space of the oratory, repurposed as “choir”. The best way to understand the layout if to have a look at the floor plan drawn by architect Mallay in the 19th century, here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_de_la_chapelle_Saint.... The imposing bell tower was also built at the same time.
A telephoto shot of the chapel emphasizing its stunning and unique natural location. When you see this rock in real life, you understand why men, since the dawn of time, wanted to build something on top of that to honor their god(s)...
Blended layers with Seven Styles watercolor action for Photoshop and [graphic contrast punch] layer blend in Topaz Studio.
The Rosette nebula is one of my favorite targets. The shape and detail make it one of the most interesting deep sky objects in the northern hemisphere. Located in the constellation Monoceros, it also contain the open cluster NGC 2244. This cluster provides the solar radiation that is exciting the surrounding gas and causing the striking glow.
Takahashi FSQ-106
Software Bisque MyT
QSI 683WSG-8
Ha 18x30min
Sii 11x30min
Oiii 8x30min
Total Integration Time = 18.5hrs
Data from Deepskywest Remote Observatory
PI Workflow (each light):
Bias/Darks/Flats Cal
CC S2.5 / Star Alignment
LocalNormalization
Drizzle Integration
DBE
MMT Noise Reduction (Jon Rista method)
Deconvolution
Delinearize
LocalHistogramEqualization (150/1.5/0.5)
Curves (Sii and Oiii) to boost contrast
Pixel Math Medium Adjustment to Ha
SHO Combination
Invert/SCNR/Invert to remove Magenta
Luminance - Ha with only LocalHistogramEqualization and Curves (to preserve detail)
LRGBCombination (Lum / Chrominance NR)
Photoshop Workflow:
Selective Color - Tone Mapping
ColorEfex Pro (Detail Enhancer)
Burn tool (midtones) to darken edges
StarSpikes Pro (lightly to cleanup stars' shape)
NYC, Chambers Street Station in the Background
Effects using Photoshop and Topaz software.
Photoshop Elements 6: 1) Selected the skateboarder and made a new layer by copy
2) Used Filter-->Blur-->radial blur-->zoom, for background
3) Put the skateboarder layer on top of the blurred layer
Topaz Adjust: Don't remember what effects I used. but they were different for the boarder and the background, maybe "dramatic".
Woo Hoo! This photo made Explore!
Want to see something WILD? Check out this shot of a skateboarder doing his thing in 3D!
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Cimitero Monumentale di Milano.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM.
Apple Aperture 2.1.4 with Nik Software Silver Efex Pro.
I wouldn't find out this article until friend of mine sent the screen shot of Digital SLR Photography February Edition. wow, I don't know how and why the editor picked me. As landscape photography just a hobby and a way to recharge from my daily stressful life, I am flattered.
"With so much new talent emerging in 2015, we gather our top ten photographers who we think are worth watching for 2016..."
"Yan L, a software engineer from California. Yan shoots magnificent and artistic landscape images that rival most professional photographers. 500px.com/yanl"
Finally a project that doesn't involve software, hardware, computer code or math!
We had to edit this photo in photoshop with blending layers, textures, adjustment layers. I didn't realize until I finished and reread the assignment instructions we were supposed to add text with properties - so I took the lyrics from the song I was listening to while working on the project. Metric- Dreams so Real.
Fun. Okay back to math and programming. <3
View Large? Opinions?
Optics : TEC 140 APO (980 mm F 7.0)
Filter : Baader Planetarium D-ERF 160 mm
Beloptik Telecentric 5x
Filter H alfa : Coronado PST
Filter H alfa : SolarSpectrum S.O. 1.5 0.5A
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Equivalent Focal lenght : 4900 mm.
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier
Trolley : JMI Large Size Universal Wheeley Bars.
Software : FireCapture by Torsten Edelmann, AutoStakkert3 by Emil Kraaikamp, ImPPG by Filip Szczerek, Adobe Photoshop
Sun Active Region : NOAA 13664 NOAA 13668
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
I took this shot a couple of years ago at Joshua Tree National Monument. I was scouring through my image library looking for shot of a climber that I had taken and saw this one. It was kinda like finding a 20 dollar bill in your pants pocket while your doing laundry :)
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IMG_5009
Using Topaz Noise Adjust 6 for the first time.
This shot of a Beach Staggerwing Replica was very noise on the underside of the aircraft. Not a very good capture but a great candidate for the test.
Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's & Claude Monet's impressionist sunflower paintings.
Finished using Alien Skin Software.
Thanks for viewing :)
Testing out PTGUI panorama software, so I'm going through some of my panorama stuff that never quite worked out before.
First up is probably my favourite place in Dublin, Howth.
Shot with a Nikon D800 camera using a Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 lens. Stitched together using PTGui Pro and edited using Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6 with Topaz DeNoise 5.
From the Resident Evil: Village video game. I tried to mimic the look and feel of the game with different filters (Analog Efex, B&W Infrared, Color Efex) and adjustments.
Cosplayer: Life of Cosplay
Giving Nik Software HDR efex Pro 2 a test run. I'm not big into HDR, but sometimes it's just kinda necessary (in small amounts). Now that I've got an awesome tripod of awesomeness, it's time I learned to embrace it.
Also thinking it might be time to leave my beloved CNX2. I love it. I wish they would upgrade it and fix all the problems with it and maybe give us a few more features, but it's been YEARS since NX2 was released, there's been no news from nik software of any intention of upgrading it, and their newest versions of the plug-ins aren't even compatible with NX..... sigh....
Testing CS6 with the nik software plug-ins now to see if I can make it close enough to NX2 to convince myself to make the switch.
File: M07-02
My own illustrations.
About the images.
This is my own artwork of the Egyptian goddess called Ma’at.
This was my first serious Vector based artwork done using CorelDRAW (either version 3 or 4) graphic design software on Windows 98 back in approximately around c1998 to c2000.
I started by doing a pencil sketching on paper, then tidy up by turning it into a proper line drawing. When it was done, I used a marker pen and drew over the pencil lines.
After that, I scanned the artwork to my computer, using a flatbed scanner. That was the reason for using the marker pen, to ensure the lines shows up on screen.
The scanned image was saved as a .BMP file and it was imported into CorelDRAW as a background layer.
I placed a new layer on top of the background, and traced the original pencil drawing, the reason for using marker pen was to ensure the lines shows clearly on the screen.
However at that time, I was using a mouse to do that drawing, as I did not buy a pen tablet until so many years later. The work took days. Likely to be couple of hours per day, over a matter of many days, until the outline was completed, then I coloured it in.
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This one was done using Adobe Illustrator Draw app on 6th generation Apple iPad running on iOS 11, and was done using the first generation Apple Pencil.
Unlike the first one (M07-01), I did not do any pencil sketching on paper, as I can do rough sketching on a layer in the app. Simply sketch out the outlines, then add another layer on top of it, and try to draw tidy lines.
When that was done, I added another layer, this time below the outlines, and coloured it in. Not sure how long it took, likely to be an hour per day, over a matter of few days.
The finished illustration was then exported to my desktop Adobe Photoshop, and saved as file.
About the subject of Ma’at.
Ma’at can be spelt in various different forms, including Maat, Mayet, Maet, and Maut among few other possible variations.
Ma’at was one of the many Egyptian goddesses during the Ancient Egypt days.
Records of Ma’at can be found dating back as early as the Old Kingdom, which is c 2700 to c 2100 BCE.
Ma’at is considered to be the goddess of truth, order, law, and justice.
In the Ancient Egypt mythology, it was said that when Egyptians dies, they would meet Ma’at in the Underworld. Legend had it that Ma’at would weigh the hearts of the decedents against her feather to judge their souls.
If the heart is lighter or equals in weight to her feather, the decedent would be allowed to go on to the Afterlife, but if the heart was heavier, they would stay in the Underworld.
She can be seen with or without the wings, and always with an ostrich feather tucked into headband.
She is said to be the daughter of Ra, whom is the god of sun.
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An Edwards B-1B Lancer takes off Runway 22L on April 1, 2014, to begin testing its Sustainment Block 16A software upgrades. The SB 16A software will work in conjunction with the long-range bomber’s new glass cockpit configuration in order to ensure its capabilities in a fast-paced integrated battlefield of the future. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner/Released)