[size=100]Morning Ray,
I would like to say that this gave me less grief... but it did!! Actually, I was working on it late last night, but in itself it was not too bad. I am glad you like the pastel version of this, and thanks so much for your support! : ) I have a bit of a dilemma with images and it fits with what you have said too...
I have always tried to process them in such a way, that they might look something like they would if I was standing actually in front of them. I am cautious with saturation and overly sharpening and processing things, because I feel it can create a garish unnatural look, and at the same time make the background noisy. It can make the object look as though it has been stuck onto the sky/background, rather than sort of emerging from it. Doing so may make them stand out more, but I do not want to do that for the sake of loss in other ways. I have no idea if this is the right thing to do, but what I have done here is include a slightly more sharpened and saturated look to see what you and others may think - image number 3! The other thing is I have a high quality monitor, and so I may be able to see things better on that compared to other monitors and it might be brighter too. I will look into what Shane wrote, thanks!
Honestly, Ray, I thought you images from yesterday were really good. You have battled a lot lately with this processing business and you have done really well with it, we are only talking about tweaks and things. I guess we all need to take a bit more of a joy in what we are producing.
All the best.
Simon
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