I see I'm a few days late to the party here but I would also suggest
something in between... put the two on different layers and, as Moose
often says, use the opacity slider until you get what you want.
I thought the first was well over the top saturation-wise but the second
is a bit too muted.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/11/2014 12:40 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> I'm cutting against the grain here, but I'm partial to the first one, save
>> for the wee branch upper left. I see what AG was talking about, but I think
>> the second try pulls things back too far.
>
> Agreed. I felt that somewhere between the two was probably a good balance.
>
> This reminded me of my one sand-dune photo that I posted where I did
> some serious twists to the turns. I took the color image, extracted
> the red channel and luminance channels out. Did a "hard light" merge
> of them back together and then added the color of the original file
> back in.
>
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