Impasto

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I use painterly filters on my photos, all the time. I love the affect. I usually use the filters at about 30% and erase the affect on my center of interest. It seems I increase the percentage of filter on the photos in correlation with the image’s core strength. The image below Impasto is a good example of this. I applied seventy percent of the filter affect and did not make any eraser adjustment. I call the image Impasto because that’s the name of the thick painting look.

The grasses in the foreground caught my attention. Some interest in the sky was a must. I can’t readily point to a center of interest and that is what weakens the image, in my mind.

Impasto