Last year I captured this butterfly near a lake in a forest, and decided to go for a crazy edit… this is what I came up with:
I aimed for a glowy, midnight look, is it believable enough? Curious to see your takes.
SOOC .jpg:
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*By the way, this is my largest .xmp file so far 
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Everybody may use my photo under the conditions detailed in the CCL.
Now you just need to make it blink… 
Here you go …
That’s awesome… 
Awesome prompt, thanks for sharing! Tried shifting everything blue/lavender for a day-for-night look.
Lovely capture. I used two instances of the retouch module in DT to first clone out the flower on the right and then heal the cloning to get a nice repair. I also restricted sharpening to the details of the flower and butterfly to avoid bringing out noise in the background. This was achieved using the details slider in the masking option. I have shown what the mask looks like when you do this. I also used the color equalizer module to enhance the saturation and exposure for the purple flowers.
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Yeah, butterflies are some of the most restless and photogenic insects
Very nice shot, the bokeh is so smooth 
I tried the midnight glow look:
EDIT: corrected the huge blue CA, increased vibrance, blurred background to remove noise
Yes, the blue CA is pretty intense… It’s a NIKKOR 70-300mm kit lens, so I get blue CA quite often, especially at these high-contrast edges.
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I used a local adjustment spot in RawTherapee 5.11 to get some more of that lower quarter.
Oh boy, I did not expect that 
How did you do it?
Used DAP (Dynamic Auto Painter) and a customer preset I created. Would link, but recall getting in trouble for sharing a commercial site link. Haven’t upgraded to version 8 yet (have 7). Usually, now update every other version it at all. Not getting cheap (started out at, as I recall, around $30 to $35 and last version was near $90). lol
As a side note, you did say crazy edit so thought I would be a bit more crazy than I usually am.
lol
