City Night Life

[babans]

I love this photo taken in Central area, Amsterdam.
BEFORE

From Olah

These are steps using Photoshop to increase contrast & color balance :
- Shadow/Highlight adjustment - just increase the shadow
- Curves Adjustment and Levels Adjustment for selected color
- Add more Color Balance
- Add more Saturation (from Hue/Saturation Adjustement)
For painting looks :
- use Noise Reduction Filter with very extreme setting (strength:10; PresDetails: 0%; ReduceColorNoise: 100%; SharpenDetails: 0%) apply 2 or 3 times.
- Curve Adjustment/Levels to increase contrast
- If needed, add more Saturation (Hue/Saturation Adjustment).
- Good luck


AFTER

From Olah

From Olah

[JitterJive]

Very cool, indeed! All are top-drawer. I really like your PS work and the artistic rendition is hard to stop looking at. Great job, my friend.

[tufcat]

Very nice.

[JerInTheBox]

Makes me want to go back to Amsterdam and definitely fits in with all the craziness that the city is known for. Cool effect!

[babans]

Thanks Jit, Keith Preble and JerInTheBox for comments and visiting.

[Dayton-G]

You did a wonderful job on all of it.
I was dissapointed to see that there wasnt a lo of change from the first to the second, so I scrolled down to see what comments there were and then I found the huge image and it looks great.

Awesome job sir!

[babans]

Thanks Dayton-G !
Regards

[skm.sa100]

Very cool effect.
If anyone's translated this into Gimp successfully, can they post the details?
That'll be cool.
Thanks,
Sashi
I ain't got $600+ to pay for PS and am not interested in pirating it either.

[jojonac]

WOW this is great I think you should get this printed on Canvas. It would look awesome!!

[mexon]

I love it! I going to PS right now and try it myself!!