What Would You Do (#47)

[Nicole]

It's another week of WWYD

A big thanks to everyone who worked on last week's picture. Restoring old pictures is a big challenge, and I think we all learned a little about ways to fix up those family treasures.

This week's picture is a winter scene from photog418:



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The rules are simple. Edit the picture, come back, post the result and your steps. If you want your picture to be the subject of one of these threads, just send me a PM with a medium and large version of your picture and I'll use it in the order I've gotten it. The queue is fairly short at the moment, so if you're interested in having your picture used, now is the time

Now, let's see what you would do!

[windrider86]

Duplicated image/ adjusted color balance to give it a purple tint / burned the sky and around the edges for a slight vingette look / done. oh and cloned out the one little piece of wood in the front
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[dlaf]

I was bothered by the sky being blown out over the mountains, so wound up making it a night shot. Here's what I did:

removed log and stone in front
Converted to b&w
cropped shot so river took 2/3 of area
colorized a dark purple
added a "moon" and dark vignette
(of course it took me 2,570 steps to do it in real life (correcting and recorrecting myself), but that's netting it out!

I couldn't figure out how to make the snow in the foreground whiter without making trees, etc. lighter. Input appreciated!

[irishwhite]

well, when i first saw this photo two things popped up in my mind. first, the trees are all too dark. and second...if it's going to be a winter photo, then lets make the river icy. of course, i don't really know how to do something like that, but i thought i'd give it a try.

anyways, as for the steps.

to make the trees lighter i simply went to Shadow/Highlights and played around with it till you can see the individual trees on the left hand side a bit better.

the rest went as follows:

• adjusted hue/saturation to bring out the green
• made a selection of the river
• copied to new layer
• painted this selection white and changed the blending mode
• added layer mask to this selection and used the radial gradiant tool in an attempt to make water around wood look less icy
• made another layer with current selection
• painted white again and used filter>add noise (tick the monochromatic selection)
• used motion blur on the added noise to make the ice more "realistic" looking
• also made a selection of the sky the same way it was shown in POP Photo (april 08 issue)
• played with hue/saturation to change the color a bit
• also changed my foreground and background colors picked from sky, then used a linear gradiant over the "ïce" to try to tie in the sky with the ground

oh, just noticed i forgot to mention that at some point i used the liquify tool a bit on the reflection on the "ice"

hahah...that was a lot of steps and of course it's not very good, but it was fun playing with it. sorry i don't have more exact instuctions as i was doing a lot of ctl+alt+z"-ing while trying to induce the right effect.

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by irishwhite

• also made a selection of the sky the same way it was shown in POP Photo (april 08 issue)

Out of curiosity (since I don't know if my local library gets POP Photo), could you explain about this part? I'm always looking for good info about making selections.

Love the icy river BTW

[southernbelle]

Originally Posted by dlaf

I was bothered by the sky being blown out over the mountains, so wound up making it a night shot. Here's what I did:

removed log and stone in front
Converted to b&w
cropped shot so river took 2/3 of area
colorized a dark purple
added a "moon" and dark vignette
(of course it took me 2,570 steps to do it in real life (correcting and recorrecting myself), but that's netting it out!

I couldn't figure out how to make the snow in the foreground whiter without making trees, etc. lighter. Input appreciated!

I really like this one!

[Aperture Nine]

[irishwhite]

Originally Posted by Nicole

Out of curiosity (since I don't know if my local library gets POP Photo), could you explain about this part? I'm always looking for good info about making selections.

Love the icy river BTW

sure, i'll start a new topic in an appropriate forum so others that may not check out this particular forum can also see it. i'll update this post with the link to the new topic once i've finished. i'll try to explain it without plagerizing although that is certainly a fuzzy area overall. i don't want to get anyone (including myself) into any trouble.

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by irishwhite

sure, i'll start a new topic in an appropriate forum so others that may not check out this particular forum can also see it. i'll update this post with the link to the new topic once i've finished. i'll try to explain it without plagerizing although that is certainly a fuzzy area overall. i don't want to get anyone (including myself) into any trouble.

Great I look forward to reading about it!

[irishwhite]

Originally Posted by Nicole

Great I look forward to reading about it!

annnnnnd...finished! hope you find it helpful.

http://digital-photography-school.co...099#post154099