What Would You Do (#55)

[Nicole]

And it's time for another week of What Would You Do!

This week's picture is from windrider86



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The goal of the game (as it is every week) is to work on the photo in this post, process it how you would like, then come back and share with us the end result and what you did so that we can all learn from other people's work.

If you want your photo to be the subject of one of the WWYD threads, just send me a PM with a link to the medium and large version of your photo. I use them in the order that I get them.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[Joshmeyer99]

I enjoyed this picture very much. The bug reminds me of Bert from Sesame Street. He looks very comical. Well anyway, here is my attempt to make this pop a bit more.



Here is a brief rundown of what I did.

Duplicate layer two times

guassian blur top layer w/ 5.4 radius
set top layer to soft light w/ 75% opacity

unsharp mask middle layer - 7.5 radius / 80% strength / 2 levels
set middle layer to pin light w/ 100% opacity

edited curves on background layer red mostly very little adjustment to green some to blue

finally went back to top layer and adjusted brightness / contrast a bit


----- I had to add this...since he is so bert like (this was just a quick one) Enjoy

[Nicole]

lol too funny on that second one joshmeyer Welcome to the wonderfully addictive game of WWYD

[Joshmeyer99]

Originally Posted by Nicole

lol too funny on that second one joshmeyer Welcome to the wonderfully addictive game of WWYD

Thanks. I just had another thought. I don't have time to follow up on it though. a praying mantis head might make a good Ernie

[windrider86]

lol. I had totally forgotten about this one. And, I still dont have a clue as to what to do with it

[windrider86]

ok its not a very good edit but I just couldnt let it go. All I did was to use the warp tool to make the eyes bigger. mirrored it and then used the cirlce effect

[prince]

Here is my attempt
Add adjustment layer gradient map and change opacity to 50%
Add adjustment layer curves
Merger all layers
Add filter "Fresco" and change opacity to 50%

And....... you get this

[private]

Here is my stab at it:



I increased the contrast, highlighted the bug and then inverted the selection and then went over thhe whole thing with an impressionist brush.

[photoguy711]

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Used Capture NX. Played with light levels and curves. Then used a Nik saturation to brightness filter. Used the light levels and curves to tweak it a bit.

[dcorrin]

Originally Posted by Nicole

And it's time for another week of What Would You Do!

This week's picture is from windrider86

In Paint Shop Pro Photo x2, duplicated, set threshhold at 167, opacity of 11%. Posterized level 8 with opacity 14%. Inverted. Very radical curve. Looks like waves and has 5 dots, Brightness -33 and contrast +15. Saturation +43, hue -36 , lightness -2. Then Gaussian blur, I think radius was 3.