Connie Reinhart
About the Image(s)
I am a substitute organist at several local churches. I never take payment because these are small congregations working very hard to keep going. Well, on Good Friday the good folks at Jacob’s UCC gave me a gift I was not allowed to refuse – this lovely cross. I didn’t want a canned Thank You note. I used this image on the thank you note. I set the cross near the window. Hmm, it would look nice in the clouds. The only thing handy was the fur from a Santa hat. Light rays would look nice; the background was one I had painted at a photo conference. First I used Topaz Studio 2 to adjust contrast and detail, then masked those adjustments from the background. But the fur still looked like a Santa hat. So a Gaussian blur was applied to the background and “clouds”. I used the liquefy tool to add shape to the “clouds”.
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I couldn't resist playing with your image. You wanted a light leek to shine on the cross, so I thought to accentuate that a bit. I used Topaz Textures, Crisp Morning Run. It has a light leek layer, at screen blending mode. Back in PS, I added a mask to the texture layer, and brought back the bottom and the draped scarf and flowers with black on the mask over those areas. After that, I looked at the image and thought that it would also look good in BW. So I added a BW Adjustment layer, moved Magenta to the left and tweeked the red and blue sliders also.   Posted: 06/05/2022 12:50:00
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