What’s Your Preference?

windrider86 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 02:02 PM

This weeks image for us manipulate is from Marija. Thank you for taking the time to send this on to me!
Lets see what you can do with it.
As always, the rules are simple, edit this in any way you like. The only stipulation is that you must post the steps you took to arrive at the final version

Link to larger version

If you would like to submit an image for WWYD please pm me a medium sized image and a link to a larger version. I am in need so please please send away@

windrider86 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 10:28 PM

Using the channel mixer adjustment level. I set the blend to grey and slid the channels until I liked the black and white version I found. Lowered the opacity level so a tad of the blue still showed thru. Next i wanted more detail int he tree so I applied a chrome effect to it. Changed the blend mode to overlay and then erased the sky as I didnt like how it looked. Added a white vingette and burned some of the areas of the clouds

Athas_orm · #3 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 10:34 PM

Two things,

1 are you just telling us? Some photographic evidence would be nice

2 How do we submit to you? Okay that came out worse than intended. How do we give you photographs for you to use?

windrider86 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-23-2010, 10:37 PM

There's a photo there?
I dunno I like the first part better.lol

You can me your photo via pm. Just click on my name and then send private message

Athas_orm · #5 (**permalink**) 02-24-2010, 12:07 AM

Looks great Windrider. What are you looking for in photographs?

edbayani · #6 (**permalink**) 02-24-2010, 05:50 AM

i encircled the tree with the lasso tool and copied it to another layer and duplicated the tree layer and set it to multiply mode to darken the tree and show more details. then i desaturated the tree set the contrast high, used color range and selected black then inversed the selection and deleted the excess image to isolate the tree.
i went to the bg layer and with hue and saturation, i desaturated a little to reduce the bright blues. then used the sponge tool set to saturate 40% and brushed the waterand some portions of the tree to brighten up some of the colors.
i created a blank layer between the tree and the bg and painted white with a soft brush reduced the opacity, to make the fog. flattened and saved

ydnew44 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-24-2010, 09:09 PM

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dupl,added gaussian blur on Green channel,white layer with noise on top,most layers blended,altered opacity, a moon and its light on diff layers

edbayani · #8 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 11:06 AM

here's another. i duplicated the layer and used filter, lighting effects, spotlight to darken the layer.
i encircled the tree of the background layer and copied it in another layer i made it extremely contrasty and removed the excess image, isolating the tree. i duplicated this tree layer because i used one layer by using free transform to distort it and used it as the shadow of the tree. the other tree was used for contrast and detail.
i inserted a photo of the moon and behind the moon i created another layer and brushed with soft brush the yellow glow of the moon. on another layer on top of the moon layer i painted the cloud and adjusted the opacity. i also painted some flickers and small highlites and flattened and saved. i also added slight light streaks behind the tree.