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Kids on the rocks


Kids on the rocks, originally uploaded by therealmikewong.

Here's another shot from my recent vacation. My son Nathan is crawling over some lava rocks while my daughter Devyn is patiently waiting to see if a pod of dolphins or a whale will pass by.

I used PhotoTools Professional Edition to enhance the photo combined with some masking in Photoshop to target the enhancement to specific locations but I forgot to save the preset so I can't provide it unfortunately. It probably wouldn't have done much good because I didn't just pick 3 or 4 effects and then leave them all at 100 percent coverage. For example, I used a few of the Jack Davis presets to boost the contrast in the sky and the rocks but not on the kids so I had to mask them out of the effect.

Keep that in mind when you're using PhotoTools (either Edition) that you can apply an effect and then have PhotoTools give you a layer mask that you can paint on to selectively show or hide the effect.

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