I just got PSP spend some time with the great LaDair and this is what I came up with how does it look?

 Hey Abram,

Nice job.

 I see you kept going after I left.  And I see you've been playing with the filters.

I only want to know one thing.  Did you duplicate?  

I like the last one the best.  I'm a sucker for nice looking stone work where you can see the deep shadowing. 

The only thing I would keep an eye on, is blowing out the white areas of the clouds.  Some styles will blow out the whites on purpose to get a more artistic look.  If not just make sure you keep an eye on them as you add the filters and remove it if it gets to heavy.

We covered a heck of a lot of stuff and it's really nice to see someone with true passion.     (And one heck of a computer setup. )

And again thanks so much for your hospitality.

LaDair

Hi LaDair thank you for the kind words I was just trying to duplicate what we did today with this image I think I got it right on the last one. The only thing I did not write down on paper was the noise remover what option do we use to reduce noise? Again thank you so much for taking the long drive over to me

Abram

 Hey Abram,

You're welcome.  Nothing like a drive in the LA traffic on a beautfiul sunny day.  It wasn't actually as bad as I thought it would be.  Left in the nick of time.  Took an hour, forty to get back.  Reminded me of the old days on the road.

Nose Removal.

Remember separate layer and you have a couple of choices.  In "Adjust" we used the Digital Camera Noise Removal.  That's the one where you can choose areas on your shot that you want a little more emphasis on the noise removal.

There is also an automatic noise removal just above it.  It's a little to radical sometimes but play with it on a separate layer and you will be shocked at the noise removal.

If you go down a littler furthur under "Add/Remove" noise there are five more noise removal filters.  So plenty of noise removal to play around with.  The Median filter is fun to play with.  You can almost remove fence posts with that one.   Ok, not quite but push it once for fun and see what happens.

I'm glad to see you are reinforcing a lot of the stuff we went through because it's so easy to forget.  If you have any questions at all, call me or email me.

LaDair

Nice play Abram, I love the depth of the shadows in the last one.

Hi Jim thank you for the kind words and thank you LaDair for reminding me were the noise remover was at