Long Time Friends - Painter 11 - PhotoPaint - Filter Forge

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"Long Time Friends," is the title of today's image. We had the pleasure of visiting with some friends that we haven't spent time with for many years. This began as a photograph of my wife and our friend Jim. The photograph was taken with my Canon XTi Rebel DSLR.

I first opened with PhotoPaint and used the Local Equalization feature on it. Then I applied the Tone Curve to it to give it some depth of color. So I started with a High Contrast photographic image.

I save this large file and opened with Painter 11, did a Quick Clone and selected the Straight Cloner brush. I painted in the two figures that had the High Contrast look and feel. I did not want the details of the background to dominate the image so I selected the Suminagashi 2 Grainagashi brush and painted in the entire background with the clone button on.

I Applied a surface texture to the image and did an iterative save of the piece. I reopened it in PhotoPaint where I applied Filter Forge's Photo Effect Grunge for additional look and feel and a frame. I selected differing variants before I settled on  one.

I saved this iteration and then resampled for the web and saved the final with my signature.

Listening --- James Taylor --- You've Got A Friend