Hi everyone,
be it ducks, swans or flying pigs I like what "first defence" has done. It is not always that the copiers win and a different approach is always appreciated, this is what makes us tick. Thank you so much I will now try the same method. In the meantimeI had another go using the method described by Rick Peterson writing for Adobe PSE.
Once I got the hang of translating from PSE to Affinity it worked out reasonable. Rick is using the trees to make a black and white but even then I had todo tweaking due the the original blue shining thru.
I attach my result as a flattened image. Thanks again and I like the humour and word play.
PS: refining the selection gave me some trouble.
EOS30D-20090705-06 RPetersonMask.afphoto