Creative License Friday #2

Jill at She Who Carries Camera has started a new meme called Creative License Friday. Every week she provides a photo to play with however we please. The possibilities are endless. I am going to try to participate often because it's fun and it gets me out of my comfort zone.

This is the original image, donated by Cathy. Thank you!
I absolutely adore this image. The heart in the rock and the people in silhouette are two of the aspects that make this so awesome.

My formula in Photoshop CS3:

1) Resized the image to fit my blog (800x533).

2) Copied the original layer and auto adjusted color and levels which deepened the color.
3) Ran Pioneer Woman's "Lovely and Ethereal" action. On the Darken Things layer I painted over the rocks to make them darker. I also painted over the water to make the sheen less harsh.
4) My final thought was to add a sky, so I used the sky from my Lake Martin photo. :)

Overall I'm quite pleased. Hope it is creative enough! It certainly was fun to work on.

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