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06/09/2015 - Cloudage

6/9/2015

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The Daily Texture for 06/09/2015
Cloudage

Cloudy Sky Texture
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Today's Daily Texture is a sky texture with what we call "Cloudage".  It's something I look for often when I go out shooting, because plain skies just aren't as interesting to me as ones with lots of clouds.  Clouds add interest and drama and energy.  By using sky textures, I can now have that interest and drama regardless of whether it was present in the sky at the time of the shoot.  This bald eagle, for example, had a plain blue sky behind him as he came in with a fish.  And while it was pretty, I think the image looks much more interesting and artistic now!

I used Topaz Remask on this one to get a very accurate mask of the eagle, and I placed him on top of the sky texture. I softly blended some of his edge feathers away, allowing him to merge well with the texture of the sky under him.  Then I duplicated the texture layer.  Leaving the duplicate layer underneath him {but on top of the original texture layer}, I changed the layer mode to multiply at 50%.  Then I duplicated that layer and set it to soft light at 100% to bring some more light and glow to the sky.
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