Excellent! I might be tempted to brighten the light tones a little in the histogram, like this:




You have some space to play with on the right hand side.

Hope this helps!

Kris.

Thanks for the info Stefan, I can take it from there.

The gold looks good too!

K.

It depends on the size of your original picture how many pixels you need to expand the canvass by to make a nice sized border. To take silly extremes, if your photo is only 200 pixels wide, expanding the canvass by 10 might be enough but the same image 2000 pixels wide would need 100 pixels. Just try making the numbers larger until you are happy!

K.

Have a look at redsnapper. A number of people on here have them and recommend them.

K.

CS3 here!

Can you let us know how you made the graduated border? I like it a great deal in this shot.

Thanks, Kris.

Not sure how one does this in elements but in photoshop I do:

1. Type ctrl-A to select the entire image.
2. Type ctrl-C to copy it
3. Make sure you background colour is the colour you want (either black or white, usually. The colours are at the bottom of the toolbar).
4. Go to File-> new This will give you a dialog box with the dimensions of the image you just copied to the clipboard. Increase the width and the height by the same number of pixels (e.g., add 60 to both values). Make sure Background contents is set to Background colour. Click OK.
5. This gives you a new image. Type ctrl-v to paste your image into the new one.

HTH. K.

I cannot answer either of your questions but I like it, a great deal. I don't really think the argument of "graphic art" v. "photography" matters really. Would I be happy with this on my wall? Yes! Job done...

K.

Much better and looking good.

Macro is frustrating to get the hang of to start with, but very addictive when you do!

Best wishes, K.

Yes, you will get the "wow".

It is often harder than you would think to get good landscape shots with an ultrawide lens. If you are not careful you gets lots of boring foreground and the main subject looks very far away. Ultrawides are quite useful for interiors, however.

On this occasion I would go with your head and not your heart. 21mm is quite a bit wider than 35mm (a bit like having a 28mm and 50mm combo in film days).

K.