Point me at the sky (b)

You don't need me to tell you this, but I'm going to anyway. Having a camera with you all the time in the form of a smartphone is awesome. You see something worth shooting and you stop and do so.

Such was the case when I drove past the old brickworks at sundown.

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Original shot.

Nice colours at this time of day. You didn't need me to tell you that either.

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DistressedFX version.

Straight into DistressedFX to give the sky some drama.

At this time, I felt that I wanted to remove what little texture appeared on the barbed wire, in an attempt to bring it out in the image. I also wanted to go to town on the colour and tones.

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I used Superimpose to lay an image upon itself. I think I would have used my favorite "multiply" option. It darkened the image up and gave some richness to the colours, but I lost definition in the barbed wire.

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To bring the barbed wire definition back (and reduce the texture on it) I flattened the previous two layers in Superimpose and then superimposed the original image on top. I masked it all out, except for the wire itself. I also increased the brightness of the wire layer from within Superimpose too.

The only problem now, is that the image looks a bit fake; like the barbed wire was from a separate image that was placed over the chimney tower.

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