I was new to digital photography and Photoshop when I took
this picture on a misty morning. I loved it! Couldn't wait to get home and play with it in
Photoshop. Knowing computers, I backed
it up and then backed it up again.
Over the next several months I continued playing with it
until I finally decided to make a print.
It was horrible! Then I discovered
I had accidentally "dumbed" it down to a very small file size, resulting in severe posterization. No problem, I had backups. Wrong.
I had overwritten my backups with the new, downsized file.
I now know what I did wrong; original in JPEG rather than
RAW, not saving original file in a safe place, and not understanding
Photoshop. Over the years I have mourned
the loss of this image but have kept it with the hope that someday I would
figure out a way to salvage it.
Voila! The other day
I came across the image and thought of the technique that radically alters
colors. The result lacks the mystique of
the original but certainly is an interesting image. Posterization is reduced and its effects minimized
by color and texture. Photoshop has
truly given back what it took away years ago.
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