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Acting upon remarks from Lapis-Lazuri I did a few alterations of the pygmy hippo painting, rescanned it and 'tweaked' it with photoshop. Here is the other version: [link]

Let me again mention that this is based on Nesihonsu's photograph of a young pygmy hippo that you can see here: [link]

I put more contrast in the background both in terms of colour values and light-and-dark. This changed the way the hippo itself scanned, so I used Photoshop to increase contrast in its body here and there. I also added a bit more green to the leaves, since they were quite washed out in the new scan. And I compared with how the real painting looked, trying to get the colours and values in the computer image to look like those in the one I painted.

What do you think ... improved, or not? Any other suggestions?

Description
Acting upon remarks from Lapis-Lazuri I did a few alterations of the pygmy hippo painting, rescanned it and 'tweaked' it with photoshop. Here is the other version: [link]

Let me again mention that this is based on Nesihonsu's photograph of a young pygmy hippo that you can see here: [link]

I put more contrast in the background both in terms of colour values and light-and-dark. This changed the way the hippo itself scanned, so I used Photoshop to increase contrast in its body here and there. I also added a bit more green to the leaves, since they were quite washed out in the new scan. And I compared with how the real painting looked, trying to get the colours and values in the computer image to look like those in the one I painted.

What do you think ... improved, or not? Any other suggestions?