Architecture

By creating a layer for the house alone, I could call up another great processing tool: LucisArt (www.lucisart.com).  This plug-in for Photoshop has a couple of effects — I use Exposure, Sculpture, Whyetha and Winslow — and each has setting buttons and sliders that I just had to experiment with to understand.  It allowed me to bring much more light and life to the house, while I dealt with issues in the surrounding areas separately.

The house is starting to emerge from the shadows.

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This is already looking better, but there is still much work to be done.  I have traded an overall shadowed image for one which fails to highlight the house itself, much less that fabulous roof line.  So I get to work in Photoshop… first cropping the image down, then establishing layers: one for the house itself, one for the remainder of the shot — both the lawn / foreground and the trees and sky.

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