Forest Glow

Forest Glow
Originally uploaded by runnerone

Here's an example of how you can make a fairly average shot more interesting. I applied a simple Fake HDR filter to it after cleaning it up and just played with the variables until I came up with this.

I realise not many of you have Photoshop, but there's a great Fake HDR action available here. The whole process is nicely laid out on Roman Flössler's website here: http://www.nill.cz/index.php?set=tu1

It's a bit lengthy and can probably be translated across to GIMP as most of the actions and processes are pretty much the same there anyway.

When you see the amount of detail in the steps involved to produce the effect, you'll see why using the action is far simpler than me trying to explain the process manually!


Happy snapping!