What Would You Do (#42)

[Nicole]

Another week means another week of What Would You Do.

This week's image is from dlaf



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The rules of the game are simple. Use this photo and edit it. Come back to this thread to show us and tell us what you get to get from there to your final creation. Simple as that!

If you want your photo to be featured in one of these threads just drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large size of the image.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[kunaldaswani]

Decided to make this look like a painting , which could be used as a wallpaper or just a background.

EDIT: Crop - Neon Glow (Orange) - Levels - Oversharpen - Saturation.

[Major_Small]

This is less "editing" the photo than it is cutting it up, but my first few attempts at edits didn't come out very well, and this was the only thing that really came to mind:

1. Found a good center flower and a good edge flower
2. Isolated those and adjusted color/density/sharpness/etc.
3. Made a horizontal mirror image of each flower
4. Put the side flowers on a lower level and lined everything up
5. Created three separate layers with the word "April"
6. Colored the middle text layer blue, and the bottom one green
7. 1px gaussian blur on the black text, 5px on the blue, and 10px on the green

Not exactly sure why I went with "April" as a word... not feeling to imaginative right now and "April" looked nicer than "Spring".

[wulf]

It looks like a painting to me but the light isn't very well balanced (flash?).

I made three adjustments.

1. Cropping to avoid the very over-exposed flowers in the foreground.

2. I created a duplicate layer and brightened it a lot using the curves tool. I then added a graduated layer mask to blend this into the layer below, so that the brightness was more even from top to bottom.

3. Having blended those two, I duplicated the new layer and applied the oilify artistic filter to make it look even more painted. I reduced the opacity of this layer so that some of the detail from below is visible, adding a bit more subtlety to the result.

Wulf

[windrider86]

I followed Wulf's lead and thought this looked like a painting or could be a painting. I have no real great tricks to loist here as I sue a program called Virtual painter. I decided it looked like an oil painting so I chose that filter. Pretty simple:

[jiminyClickit]

Not so long ago, we had a game of posting photos that illustrated proverbs, idioms, folk sayings, etc. This sort of reminded me of the phrase "gilding the lily," so I did:



- Cropped to best bloom
- One layer is turned negative, 100% in Color Mode, serves as base.
- An 80% Dark Gradient layer is second.
- Lily is selected, Cut/pasted, 100% in None Mode
- Another lily Copy is Desaturated, Darkened, 100% in Overlay Mode.
- Each layer is adjusted individually for Color Balance and tone.

[moi]

Only got Flickr. Reversed, sharpened, doodled and framed.

[Nicole]

It worked for you this week moi yay!

[moi]

Yes Nicole-into Flickr-saved-imported back to Flickr-edited-re posted.Doo da doo. Thanks for all your help-really appreciate it!

[Teewinot]

Here's mine......a quick edit this time...



What I did (in PSP XI):
-Cropped in to the more prominent, in-focus blooms
-Added a new texture layer (orange-red rust) on top of existing layer
-Blend mode Hard Light, 70% opacity
-Erased areas of the rust layer where blooms were located (eraser opacity 20%)
-Merged 2 layers
-Unsharp mask (radius 75, strength 30)
-Added border
-Painted splotches on border edge with 'marble' brush

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kunaldaswani, yours is definitely my fav so far...i love it!