Since I will be attending the Florida’s Birding and Photo Fest next week, I thought this would be a great opportunity to show how I enhanced one of my bird images.

Sometimes it takes more then just one filter to get the result that you’re looking for. In this case, I took advantage of the new filter stacking capabilities within Color Efex Pro 4 to achieve my final result.

Below is my original image. It looks a bit flat and I knew that by adding a couple of filters in Color Efex Pro 4, I could bring out more of the details and colors.

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I used several of my favorite Color Efex Pro 4 filters to bring out the details in the duck, added saturation and contrast to the water and polished it off with the new Image Borders.

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Here is my final result!

© Laurie Rubin | Education First

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