Endless Possibilities Challenge No. 434 - A Curve in the Road

[mart44]

A different season..

[hmca]

You did a lovely job on this, mart44! Would you mind sharing how you did it? I especially like the leaves on the trees.

[mart44]

I tend to go around a few programs for edits. The sky and general enhancements were done using PSE 2024. The foliage on the trees was done using the image sprayer tool in included with Corel PhotoPaint X7 (Home & Student).

One of the images is 'foliage'. The size of the leaves being sprayed is variable. I figure this is an oak tree. The leaves used aren't oak leaves but if the spray image is made small enough, the type of leaf doesn't notice. They were a bit light in shade for oak leaves though, so they were darkened using the 'burn highlights' tool.

The image sprayer can use any image stored on the computer and I could have probably found some proper oak leaves but I thought the effect was close enough using the foliage included in the program.

[hmca]

Thanks for the explanation, Mart. Your results look very realistic.

[mart44]

Thanks Helen - PSE's AI edit 'Add blue sky' in 'Quick Actions' worked well on the image. It even put the new sky in between the twigs/branches of the tree. The only place it got it wrong was on the building to the left of the tree. It coloured that blue as well. A small mistake though and easy enough to rectify by painting it the right colour.

[tourerjim]

I started this one couple weeks ago and thought I'd finish and post.

[hmca]

Worth coming back to, tourerjim . Almost looks as if it was printed on glass to me.

[tourerjim]

Nov 12, 2023 18:37:46 GMT hmca said:

Worth coming back to, tourerjim . Almost looks as if it was printed on glass to me.

arr yea should of mention Helen, the last part of the finish I used filter/wind/blast then about 50% opacity.