Sunrise and Fog on the Lake - Paint.NET - PhotoPaint

Sunrise over Bald Eagle Lake with fog on the lake is today's image. I took a simple approach to this image as it says so much on it's own.

In PhotoPaint I adjusted the Tone Curve to lighten up the greens and the sun and lake fog. I resampled for display on the web in PhotoPaint and saved the file.

I reopened the file in Paint.NET and used a painterly filter on it. I stayed away from doing anything with saturation as the colors were dark enough to make the sun gleaming through the trees true to color.

Using PhotoPaint again I applied Filter Forge's watercolor frame and added a 10 pixel black border to that. Again I used a simple approach to this image in the use of filters to create it. Showing that you can create a great image from a great photograph with a few touches done digitally.

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