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The navy came by flying the Nova Scotia flag at her bow just to Impress Becky and Hattie!

Leslie, the presence of the Renault truck is plausible since this is not far from where I took it's picture.

There are no rules as to how you apply your post processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations. Taken at 7AM local time here (Punta Colorada, Uruguay) on the 1st day of Winter.

There are no rules as to how you apply your post processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations.

This stone lighthouse is located in Rose Blanche, Newfoundland. I wanted to put a white vignette around the lighthouse; but, there was a problem. I didn't leave enough real estate on the left side of the image to do that without covering the structure with the vignette. In PS, I expanded the canvas. Then I took a section of the right part of the photo, flipped it horizontally and moved it to the left partially covering what was available to the left of the building. I used a curves adjustment layer to change the moved section to better match the left side of the photo. Then I used a low-flow brush on a mask to try to remove any vertical border line and to try to make the horizon more realistic. Then I went to On1 to add the vignette and border. These are the layers for the PS part.

There are no rules as to how you apply your post processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations.

Hattie and Harry commented that something about the horses didn't look quite right in my previous submission so I fixed it according to their suggestions and included them for reference.

Glenn, your horses have run off to Punta Colorada. Here are the layers I used.

Well, Mike's gif may not be too far off the mark. Here's our 2 corgis, Hattie and Harry, 'playing' And this is what one of them did to my shirt when they were less than a year old. Note how precise and clean the cut is? All can be tranquil too.

There are no rules as to how you apply your post processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations. A note to this Corgi: you aren't likely to win 'Best in Show' if you stick your tongue out at the judge.

There are no rules as to how you apply your post processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations. This statue is found at the waterfront along the rambla in Piriápolis Uruguay. The intent is good, but the execution? IMHO, it is a frightening and ugly thing. What help can you offer this poor image of an ugly statue?

For those of you not familiar with the 'Roughed Grouse', AKA 'partridge' in northern Ontario, it is not one of the smarter species of bird. In fact, it is a card carrying member of the 'Non-so-bright Birds' group. A corvid, it ain't. Predation ranks as the leading cause of the demise of individuals, followed closely by running into freshly washed windows and getting run over by cars. Hunting claims only a small number.

There are no rules as to how you apply your post processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn. If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example). Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations. A roughed grouse.

Maiden Lake, NE Ontario, Canada

I thought the stark white background of PNet took away from the subtle colours so I put the photo on a darker background. Before I did that, I straightened the photo a bit, used a curves adjustment layer with mask to darken the water and a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with mask to enhance the yellows in the tree. That's it and is much more than this image needed.

Mike, this is such a beautiful image that I am very reluctant to do anything to it (yet) other than some very slight straightening. When I was pixel peeping, I noticed the two dots in the sky. The bright one is most likely Venus. The very small one may be Mars. They line up. So, I guess one could say that the planets aligned for you when you took this magnificent photo. Congratulations. I really like this photo as-is (or as-was without the labels and arrows).

Sunrise over Punta del Este skyline as seen from Punta Colorada.

Thank you Glenn for allowing us to work on this lovely image. I thought I'd try removing the power lines and poles. This hit me as kind of ironic when I zoomed in and saw that the objects on the right side of the image are windmills. All was done in PS. As Glenn mentioned, the jpeg compression makes halos around things like power lines. I thought I'd try a different method rather than healing brush, cloning, etc. to get rid of the power lines and their halos. I duplicated the background layer twice (because the lowest layer remains as the background layer) and put a mask on the upper layer. I hid the bottom layers and painted in black on the mask using a fairly wide (relative to the power lines) and feathered brush to hide the power lines. Then I made the second layer visible again and used the move tool on it to bring the sky into the masked parts of the layer above. Because the lines are not straight nor parallel, some parts of lines remained visible so I merged the upper 2 layers, duplicated the background layer, masked the upper layer and repeated the process. After that, with my sloppy mask drawings and funky layer layer moves, the lines were roughly dealt with. With the big pole, I worked on the top part (with the sky as a background). The select object tool picked it out well. I expanded the selection and then used content aware fill. The bottom pole was dealt with by making a selection bigger than it and then using content aware fill. The little poles were dealt with using the healing brush. There was still quite a bit of clone stamping, patching and healing brush work to do, but that was to be expected. I increased the saturation of the image using a preset in a selective colour adjustment layer (thanks to PiXimperfect for teaching me that). Then I used a curves adjustment to boost the highlights and bring down both the mid tones and the darks. That made it look like what I recalled of that time of day in Canada. Of course, I had to add some ham. I expanded the canvas by 110% and put in a drop shadow. That was the ham, this description is the cheese. My hard drive failure left me in a pickle, I guess. Once again, Glenn, thanx. This was fun.

Leslie, yes I did! As of this morning, I am running my iMac from an external drive (4TB 5400rpm Toshiba via USB 3). The internal 3TB fusion drive is kaput, but I did get about 5 years out of it. So far, no noticeable performance hit except at startup when I think the iMac tries to mount the dead drive and repair it. Makes me wonder what the benefit of fusion drives are. Maybe tomorrow or Tuesday I'll give a shot at responding to Glenn's challenge. Thank you very much for asking. Estoy muy feliz:):):):)!

Hello fellow challengers. I won't be posting a challenge tomorrow. I had a hard drive failure and can't easily sort through my images. I have multiple backups but they are not easily accessed. Now....how to get a 3TB fusion hard drive replaced on a 27" iMac....IN URUGUAY!