From the course: Editing Macro Flower Photographs

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Creating a starry flower: Starting in Photoshop

Creating a starry flower: Starting in Photoshop

From the course: Editing Macro Flower Photographs

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Creating a starry flower: Starting in Photoshop

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- [Instructor] I'm always so amazed to see how much in common it seems that flowers have with sea life and also things you see in space from the Hubble Space Telescope. So with that in mind, I'm going to take this kind of mediocre photo with a beautiful flower and really edit it to tell a whole 'nother story and make this an image of something that would look much more at home in the night sky than it would here on Earth. Now to get there, I'm going to apply several filters. So I'm going to use some filters from Nik Collection. Now this particular version is free to download and I'm running it nicely on Photoshop CC 2018. I'm going to open up Color Efex Pro. Alright, so the first filter I want to apply is to increase the visibility of the textures of the flowers and the filaments and the stamen. So I'm going to scroll all the way down to the bottom here and go to Tonal Contrast. And, just going to check out the differences here. So I really want to increase the tonal contrast of the…

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