What What Would you Do #146

[windrider86]

This weeks challenge photo was submitted by Vail Marston. Thank you so much for allowing us to play with your photo!

The challenge here is a simple one. Take the photo you see here and edit it in ay way that you see fit. Return to this thread and post your rendition and tell us how you arrived at your final product!

If you would like to submit a photo for the challenge please send me a pm with a medium sized image and a link to a larger one



Link to larger

[windrider86]

Looks like I'm starting this one.
Copied new sky in as a new layer - changed blend mode to multiply - lightly erased around the windmill to have it stand out more. Merged layers. Used the scratch remover tool to remove poles. (I use PSP) Duplicated layer and sharpened quite a bit, ereased the sky so it wasn't so over sharpened. Merged layers and duplicated again. Used Flaming Pears flood tool to add water in. I wish I would have left this step for last tho) Erased the edges so they werent so harsh. merged layers. Traced around all the windows with the lasso tool. Promoted to new layer, flood filled with yellow. Removed the marching ants and applied a Gaussian blur for the appearance of glowing lights. Merged all layers.

[Wishing4]

That's really cool...and kind of spooky.

[statichash]

Great job Windrider! Cool water effect, that must be tough to do. Your version does give off an eerie vibe - almost like a haunted windmill!

Here's my stab at it.

What would you do? #146:

First I removed those pesky poles. Next, I used the magic wand to select all the windows and brightened them up. I then created a new layer and added a new sky, using a combination of the clone tool, healing tool and blur tool I meshed the sky with the image decreased the opacity just a bit and I cleaned up some of the overlay with the eraser; then I merged the layers together. I Increased the exposure just a bit, increased the saturation, applied some Gaussian blur and added a soft vignette to the image.

Cheers!

[windrider86]

Truth be told, water is easy. Flaming Pear has a plugin called flood. Click ont hat and you have instant water

[douglas]

Partly in Gimp and also PS



Cropped to get rid of the poles
Adjusted contrast and brightness New

in duplicate layer go to line drawing
reduce the opacity of this layer to allow some colour through
filter-posterise to about 8
save

[BelovedMemories]

I went for an old feel!
Edited in Photoshop CS4.

[cindy.marnell]

I used the blue sky and clouds plugin in gimp to correct the blown out sky and add some dimension to it. I removed the poles and the shed with resynthesizer. Then I opened it in picasa to adjust the color temperature, increase the shadows and the fill light slightly and adjust the saturation, finishing by making the horizon straighter.

From Drop Box

[Vail Marston]

Great work by everyone this week. Here's my attempt.

In Paint Shop Pro:

• Cropped the image to adjust the composition.
• Used Scratch Remover and Clone Brush to remove the poles and wires.
• Pasted a sky photo as a new layer, selected the sky from the original, inverted the selection, and deleted the selected area from the new sky.
• Reduced the opacity of the new sky layer to blend with the original sky and merged.
• Converted to Black & White with a red filter.
• Adjusted Brightness/Contrast
• Added a slight sepia tone.
• Applied noise reduction and sharpened.

[senzhi]

- Converted into a pseudo-HDR
- Adjusted tone & colour
- Increased contrast
- Added a neutral gradient filter
- Converted into monochrome on a new layer.
- Added a mask with a 40% throughput of the windmill
- Added a gaussian blur
- The usual cropping, noise removal & sharpening