March HDR Collaboration

For the past few months this year our local Aiken, SC Flickr group has been collaborating and creating our own HDR version of the same image. Here is the one I contributed this month. The image was taken by Imageaiken. Here was my work flow:

My Work Flow for this Image

1. 3 Images tone-mapped via Photomatix Pro Saved as a Tiff 
2.  Opened in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 
3. Topaz DeNoise - Jpeg Small 
4. Duplicated copy 
5. Applied Nik Complete Effect 3.0 Foliage effect 
6. Duplicated this layer 
7. Applied Adjust 4 (Simplify) and reduced the opacity of this layer to ~33%. 
8. Saved as Medium size Jpeg in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 
9. Final product!