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Here is another good exercise in post processing. My photography workshop went to Jackalope, a very fine retail establishment here in Santa Fe, where I came across this very self possessed store cat on duty. He struck such a regal, cattly pose I just had to take his picture. When I got it home though I wasn’t too happy with the orange can sitting on red concrete. Simple solution. I selected the cat using the quick selection tool in Photoshop, inverted the selection, added a hue/saturation layer and adjusted the color until I found one I liked. I then took the image into Topaz simplify and scrolled through until I found a painterly treatment I liked.