My husband came home from work early on Friday so we could drive to the dunes and take some pictures - it was the perfect day for a postcard picture - still and bright and sunny with no clouds.
Editing: Crop and straighten; Adjustment layers for levels, curves and selective color; flatten image; select dunes away from background with quick mask; noise removal on dunes; invert selection; slight gaussian blur and noise removal on backround hills; make a new layer for text, do drop shadow for text; flatten image again; resize; reload dune selection and use smart sharpen only on dunes, not background; use sharpen tool on text; save for web.
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Sammie, well done, and another wonderful image coming from you and you talant with the camera.
The capture of the light and shade, is just perfect in this postcard in everyway..... I loved this one.