![]() In 2010 and again in 2014, Denise received a Highly Honored award in the prestigious Windland Smith Rice Nature's Best competition. In 2015 she also won the Category for "Art in Nature" in the Nature's Best 2015 Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition. Her image of a Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin was selected as the "Birds" Category Winner in the prestigious Nature's Best 2016 Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition. In 2017 Denise’s image titled, Snow Globe was selected as the First Place "Winged Life" category winner for the BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition. Through her photography she hopes to broaden awareness and inspire others to share her love for our planet and its resources. Knowing, that every living being, depends on the human race to conserve and preserve our natural environment. Her workshops feature a variety of subjects including: avian, flower, landscape and creative photography.ĭenise’s love for nature started at an early age she has always felt very passionate about wildlife. Denise travels extensively presenting slide lectures and seminars and teaching photography and Photoshop. So… the next time you take a dull photo, try to see if you can use it to create a custom brush shape.ĭenise Ippolito is a full time award winning professional photographer, workshop leader, and artist living in New Jersey. Original image of colorful sky before adding my new brush preset For my final image above, I chose to create two brush presets so that I could place each bird onto the background separately. You can change the color and size in the same way you can change the other brushes in Photoshop. Your new brush is located in the brush tools. In the dialogue box, type in a name for your brush present and then click OK. Make adjustments to the image size, if necessary and then close the Image Size box. Once the silhouette is adjusted, make sure that your image is no larger than 2500 pixels on the longest side. ![]() ![]() Use the slider to adjust the silhouette to make it look the way you want it to look.The white background is important to create the necessary cut-out look. You should have a black silhouette with a white background. This renders the image completely black and white, kind of like a stamper. I open the image in Photoshop and select Image > Adjustments > Threshold.I select an image that I think will make a good black and white silhouette.Original silhouette of cranes against a dull looking sky ![]()
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