What Would You Do (#36)

[Nicole]

Another week of What Would You Do! It may be cold and rainy (or even snowing) out by you, so why not stay warm and try your hand at a bit of creative post-processing.

This week's picture is from niko-time:



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One thing niko-time mentioned was that he wanted to turn this into something more interesting, possibly with a more dramatic sky. So, get creative

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Now, let's see what you would do!

[glyphon]

i'll kick things off...

[s_erez]

How about a high contrast B&W?

[Teewinot]

glyphon and s_erez, great edits! Would you mind telling us how you achieved this? Thanks!

[glyphon]

Saved the image and opened it in photoshop and using levels, i made an "overexposed" and "underexposed" version. I then loaded the images into the Merge to HDR" option (introduced in CS2). After it was merged to HDR, i used the Lomo Effect tutorial here.

[s_erez]

1. Open in PS.
2. Duplicate the layer.
3. Added a B&W layer and adjusted the sliders to the result I was looking for.
4. Added a levels layer and used it to change the contrast by lowering the dynamic range of the image.
5. Added a curves level and used it to modify the contrast of the sky.
6. Added a color balance layer and added some more filled some red into the image.

Erez.

[Nicole]

I actually got a chance to play with this one. I didn't manage to make a colourful sky, but I tried my hand at making it more dramatic. What I did was:

Duplicated the background and set it to overlay. I changed this layer to black & white using the "Green Filter" setting for B&W in CS3 (I think that was the one).

Duplicated the background again and set it to multiply, which darkened the clouds and the whole picture.

Added 2 more layers using the Photo Filter adjustment. The first photo filter was "Deep Yellow" and the second was "Underwater".

[Jamesc359]

1. Desaturated.
2. Adjusted the curves to give a much stronger contrast - See image below.
3. Created a new empty layer.
4. Filled the new layer with a medium blue (#000080).
5. Set the new layer's mode to overlay.
6. Set the new layer's opacity to 60%

Curves:

[xxpinballxx]

Well this one was a quick one. haven't played in here in a long while.

what I did....
Took original photo upped contrast and brightened it.
Took one of my sky photos and put on top and blend mode to multiply.
Cloned some of the tree back to the normal color
Adjusted Shadows and Highlights
Upped saturation a bit.

Tried getting a better sky in it but wasnt about to select the tree...LOL!

[oriolhdz]

I have already done some post processing when it was submitted by Niko so here it is again.
What I did was masking the tree. Dodging and burning the sky. Adjusting levels and curves. Adding high pass filter. Creating a new layer and applying a gradient and changing the blending mode. The final result was this: