11/24/2015 - A Country Sunrise

The Daily Texture for 11/24/2015
​A Country Sunrise

Who doesn't enjoy the beauty of a country sunrise?  Today's Daily Texture depicts it in all it's warm, colorful glory!  I paired it with one of my white tailed deer photos, which was actually made late in the evening.  I thought he'd be much more handsome with the glow of the sunrise. :)  I used the texture as a background, and as a soft light layer on top.  I masked away the deer's background, leaving just a hint showing, since there was another buck just behind him.  This texture blended perfectly with the scene and gave him the nice colors only a country sunrise can provide!

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While I was working with my beautiful buck photos from last night, I chose another one and decided to use it with one of the new scenic backgrounds, Field 1.  I blended away most of his background, leaving some grass around his feet to blend with the field background.  After merging, I decided this photo was just a little too sharp for the painterly background.  So I took the merged image into Topaz Impression and applied some layers of painting presets to just the deer and his grass.  After merging those, I took the image into Corel Painter and did some slight blending of the fur on the deer and added some additional brushstrokes until I was happy with his look.