What Would You Do? #152

[windrider86]

Wow guys, can you believe 152 of these!!
We have a great image to work with this week from Douglas. Thank you!

Rules are simple, edit this photo in any way you want to. The only stipulation is that you post the steps you took to achieve the look you came up with. This is a great challenge to fine tune your post processing skills.

Get to to it!!!



I dont have a larger version, sorry

[edbayani]

selected the clear post at right and put it in another layer and duplicated it to form the posts at the right side adjusting size with free transform. duplicated the line and flipped it horizontally and darkened the right side of the post and placed it to the left of the pool. duplicated the top portion of the posts and made them into reflections on the water and adjusted their opacity.
duplicated the tiles in the foreground to cover the shadows and the manhole cover.
got a photo of a fountain, selected the water and dragged it to the image and adjusted the size using free transform. brushed some white specks on the water and some ripples. erased the two figures in the bg.

[douglas]

Edbayani, very nice, it looks nicer than it really was in your version!!!

[Photologyst]

Like edbayani who put in the fountain, I too decided that this photo need a dynamic focal point since there was really not much of interest.



Lightroom: Cropped bottom, right and left. Use workspace sequence for adjustments. Intensified both blues and reds. Typical S tone curve.

Pulled into PS: Duplicate layer, Gaussian Blur @ 6.4

Used eraser tool @ 100% to erase pool, pool house and rose bushes. Thereafter, @ 40% around the edges and parts of the bushes. Left trees and sky blurred.

Selected the pool house reflection. Made new hue/saturation layer and intensified the reflection.

Mode Lab Color, flattened image. Clicked on “Lightness” in layers. Sharpened with unsharp mask @ 120, radius 1, threshhold 3.

Mode: RGB color

[windrider86]

nice nice nice nice

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by windrider86

nice nice nice nice

Thanks!

Don't ya love that one can take a "simple," nondescript photo and make something that may interest via PS processing?

I LOVE the digi-Lightroom!

[edbayani]

thanks, douglas.
thank you windrider

[windrider86]

I didnt do much to this. I have Pixel Bender and applied the filter Droste to it. Altho it sure isnt what it was supposed to look like, this is what I ended up with

[giovanni.dcunha]

On and on and on...

This is my first attempt at learning how to add animation to photos.

In Photoshop CS2:

1. Cloned off the tourist in the distance and the manhole lid
2. Adjusted levels and curves a bit

In Squirlz Water Reflections (program):

1. Made a selection of the water
2. Added "Basic Ripples" and increase frame rate

Transferred back to Adobe ImageReady to resize the GIF

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by giovanni.dcunha

On and on and on...

This is my first attempt at learning how to add animation to photos.

In Photoshop CS2:

1. Cloned off the tourist in the distance and the manhole lid
2. Adjusted levels and curves a bit

In Squirlz Water Reflections (program):

1. Made a selection of the water
2. Added "Basic Ripples" and increase frame rate

Transferred back to Adobe ImageReady to resize the GIF

Now, that is cool! lol

Gawd, how the time flies playing with all this stuff.