What Would You Do (#47)

[jiminyClickit]

dlaf, Thanks

After adding the flipped stretched sky, the water surface looked too smooth. The noise (and Despeckle) gave back a little "roughness" to the surface.

[Firemaine]

in Photoshop Elements
What I did was
Duplicated the background
Selected the sky with the magic wand
Feathered to 150%
Added the sky
Added different layers of Hue/Saturation and Levels
And came up with this.

[shazzt]

Haven't done one of these for a while. Here is my attempt:



Opened the photo in Camera Raw. Warmed it up a bit using Colour Temp(+13) and brightened it up by increasing the exposure(+1.45). Used Recovery(32) to clamp down the highlights. Added a little fill light(9) and boosted the blacks slightly (8). Also added some clarity(38) and vibrance (20).
Took it into Photoshop. Did a levels colour correction (which took away much of the warmth I added in ACR LOL). Changed to LAB mode. In a curves adjustment layer, steepened the a and b curves to boost the colour a bit and lightened in the L channel to bring out some of the shadow detail. Changed back to RGB. Used the sponge tool to get rid of some colour stuff in the highlight edges (not very exact). Applied a medium contrast curves adjustment layer. Added a new layer (soft light mode) and drew a black to transparent gradient from the top to about halfway to darken the sky up a bit more. Finally added a slight vignette but duplicating the photo, change to Multiply blend mode, making a highly feathered selection just in from the edges of the photo and deleting the middle. Phew....hope you like it.

[Alex168]

When is this over?

[Nicole]

The WWYD's are always open You can go back to any of the previous ones at any time.

[brickheadbs]

My take:



You want the steps? This could take a while!!!

Cropped & Straightened, converted to B&W using split toning, cloned out low branches in right foreground, burned in mountains and cloned to make more visible.

I used a Photoshop action that is my "secret weapon" that I found on the 'net a long time ago (I googled and can't find the source right now). I think they called it "paint with light", but it's just a dodge/burn effect that adds contrast. It's easy to use because you paint on the layer mask to add the effect.

All this in one hour... if you like it, that must mean I'm getting the hang of Photoshop :-)

[i_luv_ph0tos]

I increased the contrast and lessen the brightness.... increased green on color balance...

then voila... DI-SAS-TER!

[rodrigo]

I wanted to give it an old, "found at the bottom of a box" feel, so I:
- Adjusted the curves to get an interesting contrast;
- As I increased the contrast the mountains got completely blown, so I selected them I adjusted the exposure on that patch to get them back to the photo;
- Cropped the picture to remove some of the stuff from the bottom and right that I found distracting;
- Converted to B&W;
- Adjusted the hue to make it more brown, like some old photos;
- Added some graininess and then blurred a bit;
- Added a white border to suggest a printed photo

[rickysu]

i have another one...
a little bit misty... hope everybody will like it


use channle mixer as monochrome to make the bw
add ripple on water..
add mist using brush ada add gaussian blur on it
finish

[Teewinot]

Here's mine...



What I did (in Paint Shop Pro Photo XI):
-Desaturated 100%
-Unsharp mask (radius 75, strength 25)
-Added peeling paint texture layer, 38% overlay
-Added garage floor texture layer, 57% hard light
-Added old wallpaper texture layer, 100% overlay
-Merged all layers