My polerizing filter arrived, and I took a few test pictures. It worked great for the mussel shells, but the white plastic garbage bag supported by bamboo sticks stuck into a piece of styrofoam worked better for photographing shell to get good color. I painted out the mussel background, and created two tracing models. One for the group of shells, and one for the shadows. I like to effect of clipping the image, but needed to separate the shadows for application of transparency. The traces were a little rough, and I did some shape editing. For the shell group, I set the object to red and applied transparency. This worked good for editing the shape to the image. Afterwards, clip view was applied to the shell group and the group object mask. The shadows were edited, too. I made some of the shadows manually, and set them to transparent so they would appear to be more natural. Rich
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