Environment Artifacting

This is my first attempt at selective pixel sorting. I tried to emphasize the contrast between the organic look and feel of the mossy log against the backdrop of a glitched forest.

The original photo was taken with a Pentax K50, run through RAW adjustments, then through curves and levels adjustments. The image was then run through larixk.nl/experiments/sort/ for the pixel sorting. This sorted image was then overlaid onto the original, and the log was selected from the bottom layer (the original image), then erased from the top layer. All adjustments were done in Photoshop CS6.

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