rjkaes, to photography
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How it started. How it's going.

Quite a dramatic change from a few months ago when everything was frozen! Our favourite tree still hasn't fully blossomed but the lily pads provide plenty of green! 😄

Hopefully, I can get a good photo in the summer and then again in autumn and have the whole "Four Seasons"

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Green spring tree in a pond surrounded by lily pads.

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Transition between Spring and Summer.

Beautiful pink leaves of Spring are changing over to green leaves of Summer. The Spring explosion of colour is brief but intense.

Here's hoping for an awesome Summer.

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rjkaes, to photography
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Forest green sunshine. 🌲

I love how the branch from the right frames the wildflowers blossoming in the sunshine as the dried needles on the forest floor contrast the green grass.

Feels like a painting!

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baymud, to DigitalArt
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All the layers that went into the cover art for the Mental Clutter EP. Quite a few photos that ended up as subtle texture (I had big plans when I took that cauliflower pic).

The original idea was to use use that pic of the Circuit Rhythm as the cover, but that seemed too much like product placement, so I used it as inspiration instead.

Hopefully this is interesting to someone!

#coverart #albumcover #digitalart #affinityphoto

An animation of the layers used to create the Mental Clutter cover art

rjkaes, to photography
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It's amazing how dramatic the skies get before a storm.

The weather changes so fast: these clouds lasted for only a few minutes before they were blown away and replaced by clear skies!

Glad I was able to capture them before the moment was lost.

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#embraceyourshadows
#protectyourhighlights
#itsamazingoutthere
#nature
#outdooradventures
#hikingtrails
#magicalmoments
#stormyskies

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rjkaes, to photography
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There are times when Mother Nature can't help but burst into colour.

These blossoms are here for a good time, but not a long time. 😄

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An empty park in late afternoon.

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rjkaes, to photography
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Waiting for spring fun.

Once the weather warms, this place will be bustling once again.

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#sonyimages #visualgrams #photography #yourshotphotographer #on1 #affinityphoto #playgrounds #emptyspaces #liminalspaces

rjkaes, to photography
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More turtle family photos! 🐢

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rjkaes, to photography
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Super green!

We've had a tonne of rain recently. While walking along the trail I stumbled upon this verdant green watershed! Some of the greenest plants I've ever seen!

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rjkaes, to photography
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Monet-like water lilies. 🥰

I boosted the blues in the water to make the photo look like one of Monet's water lily paintings.

Not bad from what was a rather dull grey day.

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RiversideBryan,
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Gorgeous 💙👏👏👏

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Turtle family!

I wish I could have gotten closer or had a more powerful zoom.

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rjkaes,
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I've seen one or two on their own, but never a whole family. Apparently it's spawning season down at the conservation area.

RiversideBryan,
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Awesome! There's a pond near my home that i visit often and the turtle population is growing there now also. 😁🙏🙌🐢🐢

BelfastRoadster, to Canon
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Britain’s smallest breeding bird; the #Goldcrest.
This one seemed happy to pose for photos in the #woodland at #WWTCastleEspie.

Shot on #Canon #EOS70D with 70-200mm lens + 1.4x teleconverter.
Processed in #TopazLabs #SharpenAI and #AffinityPhoto.

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poessibility, to affinity German

I have scanned a lot of old black and white photos and now I want to restore some of them with #affinity / #affinityphoto.
Of course #affinity is mainly focused on color images. Does anyone know of a plugin that is particularly suitable for processing old black and white images?

poessibility,

@airwhale Many thanks for the tip.
I will test NIK - but the package actually costs a lot more than Affinity Photo ...

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@poessibility

Yeah, think they are still on legacy plugin pricing. I don't think you can get Silver Efex as a standalone purchase unfortunately. They do offer a trial period so you can check if it is what you want to spend money on though.

I’m a few versions back, don’t use it enough to grab every upgrade.

Noriko, to photoshop

Speaking of failures in the last post, I decided so share one of those with you.
As you can see, this image appears to be pretty fine, right? And that's true, expect the sword the knight is holding. It is a bit bent, something the blade of a longsword should not be.

So, is here someone working with #photoshop, #affinityphoto or something else? How could this blade be straightened again without destroying the picture itself?
#ai #aigenerated #photomanipulation #digitalart #art

daniel,
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@Noriko I'm not that experienced with Affinity, but maybe @metin can give you some tips?

Beautiful image btw! 🙂

metin,
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@daniel @Noriko I would make a selection of the sword, turn it into a new layer, rotate it, then use content-aware fill on the original layer to fill in the part that was previously overlapped by the sword. This is possible in Photoshop and Affinity Photo, but I can also recommend this free AI plug-in for Krita:

https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

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