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Uploaded: 06/20/06 10:40 AM GMT
Teasing Georgia
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A hybrid rose called "Teasing Georgia" from Huntington Gardens Rose Collection. This rose carries a nice scent. The original was photographed in very bright overhead sunlight, therefore the resulting image had washed out highlights. To correct that problem, I reduced the brightness to about -40 and increased the contrast just a bit (+5) in Photoshop. I cleared the left hand portion of traces of greens by brushing in with a pure black 400-pixel anti-aliased brush which significantly produced a minor highlight of the two rose buds. Finally, for fun I added two fake dewdrops using the smudge and brush tools.

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.June
06/20/06 12:47 AM GMT
You did a wonderful job!
Photoshop is a wonderful tool!
Great that you shared your techniques with others so that they can learn from you!
JuneBug
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"A picture is worth a thousand words"
::egggray
06/20/06 1:29 PM GMT
Well done, great lighting, and the dark background brings out the flower.
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.TheFoolontheHill
06/20/06 3:15 PM GMT
What a great photo. The editing is amazing (those dew drops aren't real??!). I really like how there are buds in the background, too.
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So many images, not enough desktops!
::madmaven
06/20/06 4:49 PM GMT
This is just making me realize I am a very long way from realizing all one can make using photoshop. Incredible work!
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cirquegoddess
06/20/06 9:53 PM GMT
Great job. The rose is beautiful.
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.PatAndre
06/21/06 2:54 AM GMT
The folds and crevices of this rose is enough toknock one out of their chair. What great detail I have always liked to view flowers that I can travel into the center and go exploring amoung the folds and hear my voice echo as I yell out praises for it's beauty. I didn't know dew drops could be created so realistically. I'll have to experiment with that. This
is very well done.
Pat
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.hernoor
06/21/06 2:58 AM GMT
Cool one here and the petals are so soft-looking! I also like the glow and colors! Good job!
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.Coolio23
06/27/06 1:48 PM GMT
The picture itself is amazing! Awesome job done on photoshop. =)
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::cynlee
06/28/06 5:16 AM GMT
I totally agree with June above.
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::michel_voets
07/14/06 11:48 PM GMT
Joe beautiful rose and a nice work with photoshop.
Congrats.
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