What Would You Do (#17)

[Nicole]

First, apologies for being late by a day on this week's WWYD :p

Second, I can't believe that the WWYD threads have been going for 17 weeks, it doesn't seem like it's been that long! There has been a lot of creativity and innovation, and it's great to see people stretch their creativity.

Now, on to this week's WWYD. Peeperita kindly put up a photo of hers to be worked on by everyone in these threads.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10338505@N05/1234775698/" title="IMG_1212 (by peeperita)"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/1025/1234775698_08103c83d8.jpg" title="IMG_1212 (by peeperita)" alt="IMG_1212 (by peeperita)" width="333" height="500" /></a>

Available larger (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/1234775698_08103c83d8_b.jpg)

The rules are simple, take the photo, and manipulate it however you want in your post-processing program of choice. Come back here, show us the result and tell us what you did so we can learn from you. That's it, as simple as that!

Now, if you want your photo to be the subject of one of these threads, please, please, please drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large size of the photo, and your photo will get used in the order it's received. :)

So, let's see what you would do with this week's photo!

[odark30]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50027271@N00/1363838861/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1332/1363838861_ef7373ce46_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="paperbag.jpg" /></a>

[shazzt]

Here is my effort (not as cute as the one above though!)

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shazzt/1364342357/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1433/1364342357_f2f60b4595.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="wwyd17" /></a>

Layers in PSE are (from bottom to top)
1 - Total white layer
2 - Photo with Pin Light layer blend and inverted
3 - Photo with Pin Light layer blend (not inverted)
4 - Photo with Overlay layer blend (I masked off a bit of the vase with a gradient to keep a bit of the vase colour)

[jrossh21]

http://www.geocities.com/jrossh21@sbcglobal.net/images/vase.jpg

I first duplicated the layer and put a 50% gaussian blur on the duplicate layer, and set the blend mode to overlay. I then duplicated the original layer again and put an emboss filter on the duplicate layer. Then I added a levels layer to brighten the image up. Then I added a mask to the levels layer so I only lightened up the vases, flowers, etc. and leaving the background darker.

[Flippant]

i call this one "why don't you love blue?"
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/shaunkt/RetouchingAssignmentsUploadedToDPS/photo?authkey=26N5Weqv7Fg#5109360230943756530"><img src="http://lh5.google.com/shaunkt/RugYDzrpEPI/AAAAAAAABJc/OBtrAC-mt0w/s288/blue-vase2.jpg" /></a>

[Teewinot]

GOAL: Vibrant color! Like a fiesta!!

What I did (in Paint Shop Pro 8):
-Cropped out the bottom objects
-Increased saturation several times
-Curves adjustment to increase contrast
-Curves adjustment to increase brightness
-Unsharp mask (radius 75, strength 15)
-Added a few borders

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7845858@N05/1367145560/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1106/1367145560_40b7897e37.jpg" width="500" height="465" alt="What you would do #17" /></a>

[Drax]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8699577@N08/1366620213/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1327/1366620213_e55cb817e3.jpg" width="337" height="500" alt="For &quot;What Will You Do?&quot;" /></a>

For this Artwork, I did the following things:

In Lightroom:
I simply retouched the exposure by lightening everything.
In Paint Shop Pro X2:
- added the contrast
- Adjusted the blue color (In Channel Mixer)
- De noised a bit
- Used the Brush Stroke effect with the following parameters:
* Softness: 13
* Brush: Bristles 160 Width 6 Opacity 63
* Strokes: Length 5 Density 55
* Lighting: angle 102 Color R 80 G 80 B80
- Added a frame and a black border.:)

[xxpinballxx]

WOW! I think this one is so far the most different takes on a WWYD thread since the beginning......and Nicole you're right. 17 week? Unbelievable!
I'll have to take a stab at this one this week! I have been negleting my duties on this thread.

[Maggie]

I didn't try to do anything that would look like "PhotoShoped" even thou it is..
I have been trying out a tutorial I came accross called "Digital Blending" sort of like HDR on a shoe string.

This is the article but instead of two photo's I used the one photo and duplicated it then #1 I used levels to show shadow and #2 used levels to show highlight.. for the rest I followed the instruction for the Mask Blending


http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggie-me/1381762724/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1258/1381762724_63117db1be.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="what would you do copy" /></a>

[xxpinballxx]

I thought I'd throw one out there since its been a while.
I brightened it up and upped the exposure.
I then did an ink outline on what i wanted
then added a glamour blur and thats about it besides some little adjustements.
http://xxpinballxx.zoints.com/image/69905-vaseredo

[Joe Hoetzl]

Goal - As seen in the corner of an antique shop

http://www.geocities.com/jhoetzl/photography/wwyd/jh_wwyd17.jpg

What I did:

A high pass (2.2 radius) style sharpen using hard light with about 80% opacity
Then an orange color overlay on lighten blen, with 22% opacity
Then a pattern fill, with a sort of cross hatch pattern overlayed on all that.
A couple quick "burns" on the highlights on the bottom...maybe should have done a bit more with that...

Oh well.

[peeperita]

you would think i'd have an edit since this was my shot in the first place....but, i tell you...it stumped me.......that's what makes your efforts so enjoyable to me....i couldn't think my way out of the box but you could....

flippant, i sincerely appreciate you ingenuity...

thanks

peeper

[snapdragon]

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/rightleftbroken/WATERCOLOR/photo?authkey=DqTw4dOgxY4#5110551096491369682"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/rightleftbroken/RuxTJTjZ5NI/AAAAAAAACdY/4zgb8PTYF9M/s400/Untitled-Stitched-05.jpg" /></a> Since I am playing with stiching ,I made 2 copys and stiched them to the photo , then used water color set at 2 ,upped the auto contrast 1 added a frame,( useing photo studio)
,then uploaded to picasa web album .I need the pratice on my stiching :D

[hpebley3]

Here's my take:
<a href="http://www.zooomr.com/photos/hpebley3/3269024/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/3269024_cdbf289811.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="WWYD 17" /></a>
- High contrast adjustment.
- Sepia toning.
- Paint black border on new layer.
- Gaussian blur border.
- Lower opacity on border layer.

[Flippant]

you would think i'd have an edit since this was my shot in the first place....but, i tell you...it stumped me.......that's what makes your efforts so enjoyable to me....i couldn't think my way out of the box but you could....

flippant, i sincerely appreciate you ingenuity...

thanks

peeper
you're very welcome! it was fun.

[bahgheera]

Hi folks, first post here and let me say what an awesome forum to stumble across with what seems a great community.

So here's what I did:

I layered the image over the background with blend mode set to soft light, gaussian blur set to 4.9.

Then I added a curves adj. layer to help warm up the tone of the wooden vase and the image in general; I pulled the red curve up slightly and the blue curve down slightly.

I added a brightness adj. layer for the whole image.

Lastly, I dodged the shadows in the center just a bit to get rid of the dark spot.

Hope y'all like it.

http://bahgheera.com/downloads/wwyd17_post.jpg

[Nicole]

Hi folks, first post here and let me say what an awesome forum to stumble across with what seems a great community.


Welcome! Glad to see you participating in these threads, we always love to see what people can do with the pictures. Hope you keep participating in the WWYD threads and even consider adding your own picture to the series (see the first post of any WWYD thread for how to do that). :)

[xxpinballxx]

Nicole...you ever think that our little idea would still be going this long. Going on its fifth month......!!!!!
I want to say to all who have supplied the canvas for us to make our own art THank you.
The photos have not been ones that are so bad they even needed post processing on. Some have been really nice as they are in their original state.
Thanks again everyone for participating and also thank you Nicole for the trouble you go through each week to keep this alive.

[Nicole]

I know, who would've guessed :) And thanks to you, xxpinballxx, for starting the idea... and a big thanks to everyone who has submitted a picture to be edited, and those who have taken the time to work on other people's photos. And a future thanks to anyone who feels like sending pictures to be the subject of the thread in the future ;) lol

[xxpinballxx]

hows the list of subjects for future WWYD's? Do you have enogh photos or needing more for the thread?

[Nicole]

I currently have 3 photos in line to be used in these threads (2 when I post tomorrow's thread obviously :p). So people are more than welcome to drop a PM with a picture my way whenever they feel like it. :)

[xxpinballxx]

well I got some more shots over the last few weeks that I can send the links for and you can pick and chose. Just so we dont run out...lol! I can't wait for WWYD 100!!!

[Nicole]

lol sounds good! And I'm sure we'll make it to WWYD 100 with ease :) I'm sure the thread will be filled with baked goods and celebrations :p