Because I took so many seal/sea-lion images

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Here’s one that I worked on … I think the round banding comes when I reduce the image for posting.

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Here my play with image 2. I used Studio and PS, I added some color gradients to certain areas of the image as well.

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Original

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Super job John. I like the dark, rich tones in the background.

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What Kathy said … :+1:

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Thanks Kathy & Shazzy, the background details were brought out by using the preset_Sculptured in Studio and the coloring was added using several radial color gradients in Photoshop.

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Thanks Sharon for the great images to play with - here is my “Yuck. The Water Turned Me Green”

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too funny Flick

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Thank you - yes, ‘sevenstyles’ is the author and they are purchased and downloaded.

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@FlickColeman - I really like your edit - looks like a real ol’ seafarer …

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How did you do that great background??

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This is one of the backgrounds I bought from Jai Johnson’s Daily Textures. It was one of the Unpredictable collection