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Posted by Gary Briney on Sat May 28, 2005 8:26 am

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This image started life as a rather ordinary macro of a water droplet on
an azalea bud. Suggestions, critique and reposts are most welcome... :)
[original image posted below]
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by Lisa Gimber on Sat May 28, 2005 10:26 am
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How cool!!!!!!!!!!
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by Gary Briney on Sat May 28, 2005 12:00 pm
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hey Lisa thanks for dropping by... :) :) :)
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by Greg Downing on Sat May 28, 2005 12:02 pm
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Very cool indeed! Perhaps you can share some of the technique used to create this image. :)
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by photosbyvito on Sat May 28, 2005 12:03 pm
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cool as is man!
maybe a little off the bottom ;)
cool effect!
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by Gary Briney on Sat May 28, 2005 1:59 pm
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Greg Downing wrote:Very cool indeed! Perhaps you can share some of the technique used to create this image. :)
thanks very much Greg -- I used selective color to replace the original magenta, sharpened a bit with using a duplicate layer/high pass filter and blended using vivid light, erased everything but the drop from that layer, flattened the layers, made a final brightness/contrast adjustment, and finally filter/artistic/poster edges @2/1/2. Time about 20 min.
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by Gary Briney on Sat May 28, 2005 2:01 pm
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photosbyvito wrote:cool as is man!
maybe a little off the bottom ;)
cool effect!
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thanks for looking vito! appreciate it man :)
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by AForns on Sat May 28, 2005 4:11 pm
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Gary this is Sweet !!!! The concept and execution both brilliant !!!! 8) 8) 8) Love it when a plans comes together !!!! 8) 8)

Excellent PS work and thanks for sharing the how to !!! Much appreciated !!!! 8) 8)

Do agree with Vito that a slight crop on the bottom will bring down the drop and make for a stronger composition !!!! Thanks for posting !!!! Big Congrats !!!! 8)
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by Gary Briney on Sat May 28, 2005 6:03 pm
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thanks very much Alfred -- here's a crop per Vito's suggestion...
though I do like the proportions of the original better I think.
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8) 8) Very cool!!! Very creative!
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by Carol Clarke on Sun May 29, 2005 4:57 am
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Love the saturated colour and the almost metallic effect created here! Great stuff Gary! 8) 8) 8) 8) :D
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there you go man ;)

awesome stuff :-D
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by Gary Briney on Sun May 29, 2005 12:17 pm
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Thanks Carol, Kenny and Vito-- I appreciate your comments very much. :)

I thought maybe some folks might like to see the original image for comparison....
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by Paul Klenck on Sun May 29, 2005 4:04 pm
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Thanks for sharing the original. I like what you created from that very much. Well done.
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by Gary Briney on Sun May 29, 2005 9:02 pm
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Thanks very much Paul! :)
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