What Would You Do (#42)

[Nicole]

Another week means another week of What Would You Do.

This week's image is from dlaf

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/daybeezho/2291605973/" title="wwyd foto4 - day lilies at night (by daybeezho)"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2291605973_54335942cf.jpg" title="wwyd foto4 - day lilies at night (by daybeezho)" alt="wwyd foto4 - day lilies at night (by daybeezho)" width="375" height="500" /></a>

Available Larger (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2291605973_54335942cf_b.jpg)

The rules of the game are simple. Use this photo and edit it. Come back to this thread to show us and tell us what you get to get from there to your final creation. Simple as that!

If you want your photo to be featured in one of these threads just drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large size of the image.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[kunaldaswani]

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/kunaldaswani/DPS/photo?authkey=nmpijBm1EVo#5176753437222489714"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/kunaldaswani/R9eF0tNtznI/AAAAAAAAAoI/VqNz0DzuZ6w/s400/What%20would%20youdo_Kunal.jpg" /></a>

Decided to make this look like a painting , which could be used as a wallpaper or just a background.

EDIT: Crop - Neon Glow (Orange) - Levels - Oversharpen - Saturation.

[Major_Small]

This is less "editing" the photo than it is cutting it up, but my first few attempts at edits didn't come out very well, and this was the only thing that really came to mind:
<center><a href="http://www.zooomr.com/photos/johnshao/4460792/" title="Photo Sharing" style="border:none"><img src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/4460779_54f0be5b3f_o.png" width="400" height="200" alt="Yellow Flower Wreath" style="border:none" /></a></center>
Found a good center flower and a good edge flower
Isolated those and adjusted color/density/sharpness/etc.
Made a horizontal mirror image of each flower
Put the side flowers on a lower level and lined everything up
Created three separate layers with the word "April"
Colored the middle text layer blue, and the bottom one green
1px gaussian blur on the black text, 5px on the blue, and 10px on the green
Not exactly sure why I went with "April" as a word... not feeling to imaginative right now and "April" looked nicer than "Spring".

[wulf]

It looks like a painting to me but the light isn't very well balanced (flash?).

I made three adjustments.

1. Cropping to avoid the very over-exposed flowers in the foreground.

2. I created a duplicate layer and brightened it a lot using the curves tool. I then added a graduated layer mask to blend this into the layer below, so that the brightness was more even from top to bottom.

3. Having blended those two, I duplicated the new layer and applied the oilify artistic filter to make it look even more painted. I reduced the opacity of this layer so that some of the detail from below is visible, adding a bit more subtlety to the result.

Wulf

[windrider86]

I followed Wulf's lead and thought this looked like a painting or could be a painting. I have no real great tricks to loist here as I sue a program called Virtual painter. I decided it looked like an oil painting so I chose that filter. Pretty simple:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alockintime/2328343943/" title="2291605973_54335942cfwhat would you do by windrider86, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2376/2328343943_ef371d143c_o.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="2291605973_54335942cfwhat would you do" /></a>

[jiminyClickit]

Not so long ago, we had a game of posting photos that illustrated proverbs, idioms, folk sayings, etc. This sort of reminded me of the phrase "gilding the lily," so I did:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47146451@N00/2329577158/" title="WWYD42 by jiminyClickit, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2147/2329577158_e9b7db1eae.jpg" width="500" height="382" alt="WWYD42" /></a>

- Cropped to best bloom
- One layer is turned negative, 100% in Color Mode, serves as base.
- An 80% Dark Gradient layer is second.
- Lily is selected, Cut/pasted, 100% in None Mode
- Another lily Copy is Desaturated, Darkened, 100% in Overlay Mode.
- Each layer is adjusted individually for Color Balance and tone.

[moi]

Only got Flickr. Reversed, sharpened, doodled and framed.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sibelius/2329922462/" title="lillies by sibeliusx, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2329922462_92bb46077e.jpg" width="401" height="500" alt="lillies" /></a>

[Nicole]

It worked for you this week moi :) yay!

[moi]

Yes Nicole-into Flickr-saved-imported back to Flickr-edited-re posted.Doo da doo. Thanks for all your help-really appreciate it! :)

[Teewinot]

Here's mine...:)...a quick edit this time...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahhallphotography/2329460625/" title="What you would do #42 (edit) by ~Teewinot~, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2329460625_82ab1e6a04.jpg" width="500" height="418" alt="What you would do #42 (edit)" /></a>

What I did (in PSP XI):
-Cropped in to the more prominent, in-focus blooms
-Added a new texture layer (orange-red rust) on top of existing layer
-Blend mode Hard Light, 70% opacity
-Erased areas of the rust layer where blooms were located (eraser opacity 20%)
-Merged 2 layers
-Unsharp mask (radius 75, strength 30)
-Added border
-Painted splotches on border edge with 'marble' brush

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kunaldaswani, yours is definitely my fav so far...i love it!

[laepelba]

I'm working on selection and masking with PS ... so that's what I tried with this wwyd challenge.... I've got two versions.

http://louannsplace.com/2008_03_12_trial01a

I figured that the Washington Monument has been that boring gray for eons now ... it needed a nice flowery pattern. (Used the wand tool, then a quick mask to finish the selection ... then a new layer with clipping to add the texture only to the face of the monument. Then I reduced the opacity of the clipped layer.)

[laepelba]

I didn't like the Washington Monument one so much ... looks a little bit TOO weird. So I tried again.....

http://louannsplace.com/2008_03_12_trial02

I used quick masks (again) on different flowers, then clipping layers and brushed different colors onto the flowers, and used different opacities and sometimes "multiply" to bring out the textures of the flower underneath....

[thekatiest]

I've been lurking for awhile, and this is my first contribution. I used Photoshop CS2.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13773078@N00/2331256134/" title="DPS &quot;What Would You Do?&quot; #42 - My Edit by thekatiest, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2331256134_6f70f92703.jpg" width="349" height="500" alt="DPS &quot;What Would You Do?&quot; #42 - My Edit" /></a>

Layers in order:
1. Sumi-e, multiply
2. Find Edges, hard light
3. Background.

I cropped it down, added a Gaussian blur, and then went to town with the Burn and Dodge tools. It looks quite a bit darker as a jpeg than it did as a psd... grr.

[Teewinot]

thekatiest, welcome to DPS!! nice job on your edit! :)

[wulf]

I'll echo Teewinot and agree - nice edit. You've turned it into stained glass.

Wulf

[thekatiest]

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/kunaldaswani/DPS/photo?authkey=nmpijBm1EVo#5176753437222489714"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/kunaldaswani/R9eF0tNtznI/AAAAAAAAAoI/VqNz0DzuZ6w/s400/What%20would%20youdo_Kunal.jpg" /></a>

Decided to make this look like a painting , which could be used as a wallpaper or just a background.

EDIT: Crop - Neon Glow (Orange) - Levels - Oversharpen - Saturation.

I'm really digging this! It looks like a really lovely woodblock print.

[light crayon]

My first post!

Here's what I did:

1. sharpen twice (unsharp)
2. bump up the contrast/lower the brightness slightly
3. shadow/highlight adjustment
4. color balance adjustment
5 poster effect
6. crop

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2331520660_c675501936.jpg

[wulf]

light crayon - welcome to posting on DPS. I like the almost three dimensional look of yours. I presume it is from the original but your work makes it very apparent, especially on the branch running from bottom centre to half-way up the left side.

Wulf

[jujitsu1]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jujitsu1/2331667514/" title="flowers of hearts 1 by welshdarren, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2331667514_676fbd9f51.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="flowers of hearts 1" /></a>
This took me 22 layers to do.
First I used the magic wand tool to get the best flower out of the main photo
then I opened it up until I had enough flowers to make the heart then took the photo of my wife and used the magic wand again to remove the background then blended all the layers together then just added the red with the bucket tool . I know its silly but couldn't think of anything else to do with it .

[Sandie]

What great ideas!!! I couldn't get my first fantasy idea to work, but I was pretty happy with this version.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandiemg/2334024932/" title="wwyd flowers by sandiemg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/2334024932_2969bc0654_o.jpg" width="301" height="444" alt="wwyd flowers" /></a>
I cropped, then clones a few spots, then just smudged at different percentages....less as I got closer to main flower. I think it plays up the painting feel and with reality and fantasy.

[snapdragon]

Here is my play with it .<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/rightleftbroken/WhatWouldYouDo/photo?authkey=VRQ5UktvGGk#5177738979038253954"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/rightleftbroken/R9sGKylE04I/AAAAAAAAISY/skj70pHU-eI/s400/2291605973_54335942cf_b.jpg" /></a> I use photo studio . I darkened & sharpened parts of some of the flowers ,did a brick efect ,saved and did a frame . It reminded me of flowers I have seen painted on the sides of brick buildings .

[erniehatt]

Did some cropping , made aduplicate layer blured it several times, then lowered the opacity so could see the underneath layer, then using the background erazer tool brushed in the flowers. Ernie

[erniehatt]

Effort No2, unfortunately having used a small crop, didn't leave to much to work with. Ernie

[wendygrant]

I could see this as a greetings card. . .

Cropped, sharpened, contrast, curves and a bit of burn/dodge in PhotoShop

Wendy

[Ampersand]

I forgot to post this one that I had already done a while back...I got busy and then sick...and then forgot.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2326/2362002828_b6053f4535.jpg

- levels, contrast, crop
- accented edges
- liquify at will :-)

I was also going for the painting look -- albeit a bit abstract.