What Would You Do (#13)

[Nicole]

Week 13, and here's hoping there's nothing unlucky about it :)

This week we have a picture from ladytx that's blown out. She wants to know what you can do with it aside from delete it.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m46/ladytx/coddieblownsm.jpg

Not available larger

So, let's see what you can do with the picture. Feel free to be as creative as you want. :D Just do whatever it is you would do. And don't forget to come back here and share the steps you took to create your masterpiece ;).

If you want your picture to be the subject of one of these threads, just drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large version of your picture.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[shazzt]

Well this is my attempt. He look like he is just about to jump out of a plane and that is exactly how I would look so I related!!

What I did was:
- cropped the photo
- duplicate the photo and apply a multiply layer blend to reduce the overexposure
- I thought that since it was blown out anyway, going with a cross processed look might work, so I followed this tutorial (http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/cross-processing.html) to get that effect. I use Photoshop Elements 4 which doesn't have a curves option, so I used the Easy Filter Curves plugin (http://free.pages.at/easyfilter/curves.html) on a duplicate layer and used a Color layer blend
- I did a highpass sharpen

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shazzt/1113666438/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1356/1113666438_daf27bf60a.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="jumpingguy" /></a>

[Firemaine]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scfd/1114891921/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1405/1114891921_a204c3d21e_o.jpg" width="450" height="338" alt="Flyboy" /></a>

Seeing as how he looked liked he was jumpng out of an airplane. This is what I did
Made a copy
Added the sky with clouds
Added the plane
Tried to work with the comtrast and brightness on his face.
Used the ripple effect on his face to try and make it look like the force of the wind.
Blured the plane in the distance a little.
Some cloning and color correction.

Hope this works for you?

[windrider86]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1102/1115311495_7ab0838b5d.jpg

First I did it in infra red, then adjusted the contrast a bit. next I applied a charcoal filter/effect. Then i duplicated it and set it on screen. Duplicatedi t again and gave it an graussian blur set on about 25. Then reset it on multipy adjusted the opacity and merged the layers

[johanmw]

Heres my try on this:

http://www.the-dd.dk/coddieblownsm.jpg

I duplicated the layer.
Made the new layer multiply blend.
Blurred it with a bit of gaussian blur.
Then i opened a picture of barch (i think it's called) from a tree, set it to vivid light blend, and put the opacity to 50%, and deleted all of the area, except from a bit of the head, and nothing at the neck.

[ready123smile]

Usually I'll just convert it to B&W if it is too overexposed.

1. 1st convert the image to B&W using the channel mixer - (see tuturial for this at DPS)
2. Duplicate the image twice. 2nd layer is for the face and the 3rd layer for the background.
3. Adjusted the contrast/brightness and levels for the face layer according to your preference and merge.
4. Adjusted the contrast/brightness and levels for the background layer according to your preference and then merge again.
5. Lastly is creating a mask on my background layer and painting the face area to reveal the 2nd face layer.
6. Merge all layers and save.
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e57/ready123smile/people/coddieblownsm.jpg
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e57/ready123smile/people/coddieblownsmcopy.jpg

[Nicole]

Wow, I've got to say I'm totally impressed so far with all the fixes of this :D This is what WWYD is all about.

BTW, firemaine, I was wondering if anyone would do that to the pic! Looks good :)

[jiminyClickit]

As long as there's Noise, blown highlights are not so bad:

- Using 5 layers, most with noise added
- One layer is a negative, Hue adjusted to get some balance to light/dark
- Magenta and Yellow added to get color into the noise
- Eyes fixed with cloning, erasing and saturation
- Face and neck placed on separate layer so b/g color can be adjusted
- Cyan and blue added to b/g to get military look to jumpsuit
- Layers erased through to get highlights back

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47146451@N00/1122880672/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1237/1122880672_7e3f82d750.jpg" width="500" height="382" alt="Jump" /></a>

[peeperita]

i just love this thread....

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10338505@N05/1131314775/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1362/1131314775_613c476766_o.jpg" width="623" height="498" alt="downandout" /></a>

duplicated the background layer.....hit it with levels til i liked where it was going....set this layer to multiply.....duped backgound again....poster edged it slightly and set this layer to multiply too.....increased canvas width with black....set type....

hope ya like it

peeper

[ciogi]

I just used Picasa2 to do some minor editing to the photo, like the black and white, then I moved to Photoshop Elements 4 did some midtone contrast adjustments and darkened the photo. Let me know what you think!!

[SmokedIronMade]

This is the best i was able to do to try saving the photo, I duplicated the image 4 times and change contrast to darken and did use sharpen filter progressively. Them took all the images to Photomatix HDR and generate this one.

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/6360/coddieblownsmmodsa7.jpg

[Todd]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10430537@N08/1164241105/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1325/1164241105_cfe73a9d24_o.jpg" width="300" height="378" alt="dr jones1" /></a>

OH NO DR. JONES

[Nicole]

Oh man, that's very creative Todd, and funny :D lol

[Todd]

Oh man, that's very creative Todd, and funny :D lol

fun is MMMM FUN:p and helps to learn

[Pernod]

Ok, heres my attempt...

I tried to bring a bit of colour back into the face to soften the over exposure. Followed up with some curves and levels... and there we go.

http://s2.co.nz/pics/jump.jpg

Ok, so the exact steps I used were...

Cloned to new layer, Adjusted levels (heavily) to get as much colour back as possible. Then adjusted the new layers opacity to give a compromise between original and new levels.

I duplicated the 'levels' layer, and Airbrushed some colour back into the face. It was a bit rushed so rather than tidy, i cheated with the following steps...
** Blurred airbrushed layer with Gaussian blur (at 2.3px) to even my rough airbrushing it a bit.
** Used 'Burn' to give the blurred layer some definition
** Cropped layer to just the face
** Then merged layer into the other 2 by turning layer to 'liner dodge' and adjusted opacity

I then selected the background and used burn and dodge a bit to even it a little.

Pernod.

[Hugo]

1st I added a levels adjustment layer to try to make the coloring less dull and more dynamic. 2nd I added a 50% gray layer set to Overlay. Then with black and white as color selection for brush I dodged and burned trying to get rid of blown out areas of pic. Eventually I set the opacity of the layer to 87%. That didn't work enough to my liking, so then I added another layer to try to bring in some color to the face and shirt that I felt was missing. I added some skin tone colors; light pinks and orange to his face and gave the shirt a light yellow flavoring. I eventually set this layer to multiply with an opacity of 75%.
Still not satisfied, I duplicated the original layer and set it to Multiply at 100% opacity. The 5 layers from the bottom up are original back, face and shirt color layer, dodge and burn layer, duplicate background and then level adjustment layer. I didn't crop it, but probably would have. My overall goal, was to change the picture just enough so that if printed the face would not look blown out and to make the background pop a bit more than the original.

I did think about getting a pic of Suge Knight and make the pic look like Suge was holding him upside down from a balcony ala Vanilla Ice, but Suge Knight held me upside down from a balcony until I changed my mind about doing that.

There's still some blown out areas, but I couldn't figure how to get rid of those without making the guy look like some kubuki theater star.

[Teewinot]

Since I'm a little late in the game here I felt the need to go a completely different direction with the concept of my edit with this one. On a side note, I think everyone did a great job! So, here goes:

GOAL:
-Since the photo is already blown out, I thought perhaps I could stick with that and add some lights to make it seem more natural.
-The facial expression says it all, so I figured I'd go with the "Crazy" theme.

What I did (in Paint Shop Pro 8):
-Square crop
-Several curves adjustments to increase contrast
-Histogram adjustment (-12)
-Increased saturation
-Added 4 sunburst lights to the bottom of the shot
-Applied a "twirl" filter to rotate his face a little and add some distortion
-Applied a "spiky halo" filter twice to add in the squiggly lines.
-Added the borders and the title

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[natemock]

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kinda cool