What Would You Do (#22)

[Nicole]

Wow, nobody even reminded me that I'm 2 days late with putting this thread up. Anyways, I'm pretty busy with some real life stuff at the moment, so I'll refer you back to WWYD 21 (http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6815) if you're not familiar with the rules ;)

Here's this week's picture from Shazzt

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2197/1522244153_5ae4d0e7eb.jpg

Available larger (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2197/1522244153_5ae4d0e7eb_b.jpg)

Now, let's see WWYD :)

[Teewinot]

Nicole, I was getting to the point where I thought of sending you a pm, but...;)

GOAL: Make it look abstract and textured.

What I did (in PSP XI):
-Crop
-Desaturated 91%
-Unsharp mask (radius 75, strength 30)
-Histogram midtones adjustment (-50)
-Colorized
-3 distortion effects applied: spiky halo, fish-eye distortion, and twirl

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[windrider86]

Well here is what I d<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alockintime/1607276519/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2038/1607276519_1e8a313018.jpg" width="387" height="500" alt="1522244153_5ae4d0e7eb" /></a>id

Lets see if i can remember cause i did a lot of steps. Well first I used the displacment effect and set the limits to upper left (i think or it might have been right) I then mirrored the image and then went back into effects and created a circle with the repeat selection. I then used the pick tool and streched the image out until all i could see were the one image and then cropped it down. Next I played with the saturation but it wasnt bold enough for me so I used the virtual photographer plug in and set it to Fast process which gave it a deeper green. Added some borders to it and here ya go!

[Digidave]

Anyways, I'm pretty busy with some real life stuff at the moment

Real Life Stuff!!! What! Who? Where? When? How? Did I miss something? Oh!!!! You mean, when I turn off this contraption & walk out that there door! I've been meaning to do that one of these days.:D

[matthewchj]

windrider86, that's really nice! I love the abstract look of it.

[windrider86]

windrider86, that's really nice! I love the abstract look of it.

Thank you! where's yours? Ya know our birthdays are 2 days apart my friend!

[birdtoes]

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I duplicated and mirrored the flower, and then I used Lucas Arts Kimpt and Sculpture, and Nik Selective Brightness and Warmth, and then made a quick blurred frame around it which I duplicated several times using different blending modes.

[Teewinot]

windrider86 and birdtoes...both excellent edits! i guess abstract is the theme so far this week!

[jiminyClickit]

Think "painting," and start with a crop for a more detailed look, and a flip for better lighting direction.

Add a negative layer, bringing emphasis onto light fluff.

Add a Lighten layer, 50%. Erase all but area under bloom, so detail shows.

Add vignette mask, Center out, Dark to Light.

Add Drop Shadow.

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[xxpinballxx]

great take on it jiminy.....i love the flip! really worked here.

[jiminyClickit]

xxpinballxx, Thanks

A hundred of my photos have to do with dandelions or something like them. Maybe 90 of them are lit from the upper left, so it just fell into place.

[Nicole]

A moment to regain my breath gave me the time to play with this photo... which I've been wanting to do since I was reminded about using textures in a different thread :)

http://static.flickr.com/2087/1648262932_0ce091449d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolesphotos/1648262932/)

What I did was (and potentially all in the wrong order):
Used the unsharp mask to sharpen up the flower
Lightened the picture using levels
Added a texture from TextureKing.com (http://www.textureking.com/) (it was a pink fabric texture)
Changed the hue of the pink layer to something a little more purpley blue (I'd played around with making it green, but I decided on this instead)
Set the blending mode to Vivid Light and the opacity to 50% on the fabric.

Edit: Also tilted the picture by 15 degrees CW, and cropped it :p Totally forgot about that step.

The end :D

[shazzt]

These are all so cool - I never would have dreamed that little dandelion could have looked so good.

[PLouie]

Here's my take. A bit of crossprocessing with a vignette and some light paint. The underexposed and overall look was chosen to drive the mood. Hope you guys like it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/aznxscorpion517/WhatWouldYouDo.jpg

[Todd]

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[mikem12188]

Here's my take. A bit of crossprocessing with a vignette and some light paint. The underexposed and overall look was chosen to drive the mood. Hope you guys like it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/aznxscorpion517/WhatWouldYouDo.jpg

Very nice work, PLouie

[xxpinballxx]

First one just a caricture sketch adjusted a bit and flexed
http://xxpinballxx.zoints.com/image/72411-CaricatureSketch
Second stab was just a crazy background....dandelions always make me think of hippies....not sure why that is?
http://xxpinballxx.zoints.com/image/72412-dandy2

[jiminyClickit]

xxpinballxx,

Hippies and dandelions: happy most anywhere they are, sometimes blowin' in the wind, each one unique but similar.

These are unique looks, too.

[peeperita]

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my mother board fried over the weekend and i'm just now up and running.....so, forgive my hasty edit.....

i wanted dawn to be breaking.....

duplicated the background, gaussian blur to give it a glow later, set layer to screen......duplicated bg again, brought this layer to the top and set the blending mode to overlay to briing up the colors...merged layers .added a lighting effect from above with a soft yellow spot and set the ambient color to somewhere around orange.....and yup, a crop.....

thanks....

peeper

[MikeM]

You guys have done everything with colors, so I decided to spread a little dandelion seed and multiply the little guy. This is a bit rough, but it was a fun idea.

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[Teewinot]

You guys have done everything with colors, so I decided to spread a little dandelion seed and multiply the little guy. This is a bit rough, but it was a fun idea.

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Wow, I never thought of that...excellent execution! It's totally seamless...looks real! Great edit.

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[windrider86]

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