What I Envisioned

[Newt]

Hey Everyone! I've been reading the forum for about three weeks now, and finally registered today. I decided to make my first post in before and after because this is the thread that encouraged me to register.

As I'm incredibly new to photography (2 weeks), this shot was taken with a point and shoot (I think that's what you call it) knowing that there would be light pollution, but also knowing what I wanted for it. It's from my first "roll of film" as an aspiring photographer.

Before


I took it to photoshop CS2. I adjusted the shadows and highlights and midtone contrast.I also adjusted the color correction slide to bring out the green grass and orange leaves. Next I created a layer and brought down the brightness and upped the contrast a bit to bring out the branches against the basically white sky. I then erased the sky on the first layer and flattened the layers. Last step was to adjust the brightness slightly on the end product to better blend the two layers and cropped a little at the top and bottom to better frame the picture.

End Result


If you have any specific questions about the editing, or comments, please feel free.

[Newt]

It seems to have lost something in uploading it to my storage site. Sorry about that. >Anyone know how to keep that from happening?

[Pen]

when you say lost something what do you mean?, other than that you did a pretty good job, i think this shot couldve been better with more sky and one thats not blown out, maybe a few nice clouds :P but seriously thats expecting way too much from the weather lol anyways pretty good edit from only a p&s and jpeg

[run4est40]

Originally Posted by Newt

Hey Everyone! I've been reading the forum for about three weeks now, and finally registered today. I decided to make my first post in before and after because this is the thread that encouraged me to register.

As I'm incredibly new to photography (2 weeks), this shot was taken with a point and shoot (I think that's what you call it) knowing that there would be light pollution, but also knowing what I wanted for it. It's from my first "roll of film" as an aspiring photographer.

Before


I took it to photoshop CS2. I adjusted the shadows and highlights and midtone contrast.I also adjusted the color correction slide to bring out the green grass and orange leaves. Next I created a layer and brought down the brightness and upped the contrast a bit to bring out the branches against the basically white sky. I then erased the sky on the first layer and flattened the layers. Last step was to adjust the brightness slightly on the end product to better blend the two layers and cropped a little at the top and bottom to better frame the picture.

End Result


If you have any specific questions about the editing, or comments, please feel free.

I'm new too. when you erased the sky, did you use a mask tool? or free hand eraser tool? thanks! I think your image is very nice result.

[Newt]

Pen: When I say it lost something, I mean that the contrast and brightness levels that I set seem to have changed in the process of taking the photo from my computer and uploading it to photobucket. It seems to happen with all of my pictures. For another example, check my most recent thread in critique my shot - other - haunting sky. The bottom of that picture was darker when I had finished with it and the sky is slightly off.

Run4est40: I used a free hand eraser...which is why the line between sky and fence looks a little off. The mask tool probably would have been the better choice...but honestly...at the time I didn't even know it existed.