What Would You Do (#54)

[waffles]

Used the Auto setting on curves to get myself a better exposed image to stat with. Then I used a pencil drawing action. Set that layer on Linear Burn (65% opacity) and lyed it on top.

[3afsa]

Hi, here is my try



Editing steps:
I used Photoshop CS3 without plugins to achieve this result, the layers used are as follow:

1) original photo
2) duplicate (1) -> desaturated -> apply High pass filter _ mode "overlay"
3) duplicate (1) -> Filter Artistic\Cutout _ mode "Darken"
4) duplicate (1) -> desaturated -> Filter Sketch\Note paper -> inverse _ mode "soft light"
5) duplicate (1) -> Filter Brush strokes\Dark stroke _ mode "multiply" 50%
6) duplicate (1) -> desaturated -> Curve -> inverse _ mode "darken" 15%
7) duplicate (1) -> desaturated -> Filter Stylize\Glowing edges -> inverse -> _ mode "overlay" 42%
8) duplicate (1) -> desaturated -> apply High pass filter _ mode "Color Dodge" 41%
9) duplicate (1) -> Filter Blur\Gaussian blur mode "overlay" 73%
10) Adjustment layer "Channel mixer" _ mode "lighting" 52%
11) Adjustment layer "gradient map"
12) duplicate (1) _ mode "color"
13) Adjustment layer "gradient map"
14) Adjustment layer "gradient map" 72%
15) Adjustment layer "gradient map"
16) duplicate (1) _ mode "saturation"
17) Adjustment layer "curves"
18) Apply Image -> Filter Brush strokes\Angled strokes _ mode "soft light" 27%

[brightshadows]

I calculated the red channel, desaturated the original image and overlayed the new "red" image blurred. It's a kind of infrared trick I learned a while ago. The blurred image over the original gives it that soft aura I really like.

Then,



This one is a little bit more extreme. I used curves exclusively to increase the exposure and then play with the red and green tones to get a sort of retro-vintage look. Then I added a vignette.

[Joshmeyer99]

Here is my go at it:



I did a couple layers one with glowing edge and color dodge 30% opacity to try to bring the halo around the center cows head into more prominence. I also obviously removed color from the rest of the image and edited the hue/saturation of the center cow. I will keep more detailed account next time, but I'm at work doing this Added some noise in there somewhere too.