Siena ~ San Domenico

Posted by [suvni:R] (Sydney, Australia) on 8 July 2008 in Architecture.

some explanation for this one. It's not a crop but a stitch. Looking for a Siena picture and accidentally stumbled upon 2 pics which I took of the church ...but both were just a part of the church. So, I thought of given it a try to stitch them together. Hence the rather small height size of the posted one because technically, it's actually a panorama. Got a bit carried away afterwards with the blending and color though :-) following has been done: level adjustment, converted to BW with sepia tint, dodge & burn on 18% grey layers, brightness adjust, layer mask for the sky color burn blended with original colors, screen blended to make it a bit brighter, sandpaper texture added, curves for contrast, resized and sharpened with high pass.

For fun, I've posted the originals as well at http://suvnir.aminus3.com/image/2008-05-27.html

Still much room for improvement but it was fun to do and that way, I'm learning PS a bit. It looks better in a larger format though. Disadvantage is that I made this late at night. So probably when looking at it again tomorrow, it will look like crap and I'll regret having posted it :-)

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