Looking much Better.

i did one for you frankie, just a quickie, but this is what i had in mind....

k10W3 .... Paintshop Pro is cheap.... I use 6 .

The only Php I have is Elements 2 ...and THAT was a freebie...with a graphic card.

No-one "needs" Photoshop.  There's more than enough skills to be managed/mastered in 'lesser' programs....

took about 4 hours (that is fast FOR ME lol) just used my mouse and my smudge tool, and the default ps splat brush and a default grass bush and then just smudged them out all over the place.....  using the mouse is easy once you get used to it, i dont use anything else.

I personally use gimp and occasionally MS paint.

mouse? im stuck on a trackball

Lol, I was not trying to wimp out on the mouse! Should have explained that my little wireless mm 6000 is being a real turd lately and I am lucky to be able to navigate with it period. It has a bad habit of freezing totally when I am working on graphics and I have to get the hemostats to get the darn nano receiver out of the USB port and back in. It's impossible to grab with your fingers.

Added blobby flowers, some texture to the main trees, changed some lighting a bit. I don't know, my flowers might be too bright? It was such a clear day here that I actually added some mist, fog in front of the mountains, hence my question, encase I had overdone the haze.

That was very sweet of you to do! I like what you created and will try something along that vain (I mean trying your technique) in the near future. Obviously, I have too much time invested in the one I am working on to scrape it now! If we all could make it look that easy, we would not need this thread!

Hi word

I started with Photoshop because of the generous gift from my brother. I am lost in Paintshop and rarely use it but have Xi installed. I have a copy of  9 but it refuses to run on my machine. Would be happy to send it along if you are interested!

i still suggest you move the trees off the edges of the picture and not hve them so dominate....

yr focal point is the bird.

it was my pleasure to do that piccy for you, i also did it to show you the techy side of art, the two trees (in my pic) act as a frame so your eyes dont wander to far, the mountain is basically an aid for the eyes to look upwards and connect with the bird....

does that make sense?... and the rest of the scenery in my version is not too dominating and also has space, but also prospective...

hope this makes sense.....

xxxxx

frankief....lose the flowers.

Work on the old adage...."less is more".

'most' landscapes are ruined by what is put in, NOT what is left out.

About the ONLY thing that wall needs is some 'hint' of land behind the trees on the left...connecting the foreground [which still looks a little unconnected from what's behind...ie the water.Lose part of the water behind/between the trees on the left and you're on a winner.

I definitely agree with you there Jafo. I had ps8 and I much preferred it to PSP X3.The image clarity does not compare and most of the picture tubes look like blobs.

I am even willing to upload ps8  somewhere by special request. It's about 180MB I believe

Flowers got lost, little land mass added plus some other small adjustments done.