Waterfall to watercolour
My favourite waterfall photo got the Photoshop treatment today. This is a small waterfall in the Mt Buangor State Park, Victoria, Australia. I didn’t see the hygge in it until I cropped it for wallpaper on my iPad.
Initially I put the vignette effect on it. When cropping it, I didn’t want the dead leaves in the photo so I moved the photo around the screen and a “Wow” left my lips. So tip one: try cropping every photo. This was just a quick snap with the mobile phone. I try to take photos without the fallen logs in the way but they’re always around. I was fascinated with the colours on this one though.
It makes me feel like the only thing I can hear is the running water, the only thing I can smell is the pure air and I’m the only person around enjoying the moment.
I got it ready to print as wall art but thought I’ll just see what I can do with it in Photoshop. Because it’s only part of a photo, it didn’t look good on a large scale. This was my cue to add some effects to it. I used the accentuated edges filter more than the watercolour filter but do several passes with them to see what works. I’d already done a lot of cleaning up the image with the healing and clone stamp brushes.
Here’s the results.
Happy Photoshopping,
Fiona
Fiona Schiffl 