What Would You Do (#59)

[Nicole]

Only a little late this week, but this week's photo is from tickintime, who thought at the time that this photo was a good idea, but now is stuck for what to do with it!



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The rules are simple, and the same as any other week. Use the picture in this thread, edit it, come back and share the result with us along with a description of what you did in your edit. It can be simple, it can be complicated, it can be anything in between. If you have a photo that you're a bit stuck with or you just want a new perspective on, just send me a PM with a link to the medium and large version of the photo. Easy as that!

Now, let's see what you would do!

[windrider86]

This has been the toughest one so far. I couldnt think of anything and so i came up with this. I dont know who was int he screen but it reminded me of a country singer. Took several photos of different singers and pasted each one as a new layer onto the background image. Turned off (by clicking on the eye icon) all of them except for the first one. Used the freehand tool and drew a circle around the area I wanted to leave visible (used a feather of 50 so the circle was small)
Layers - new mask- show selection and the mask was made for me. repeated for each singer. A couple I had to paint the edge in black to cover up what i missed with the selection tool,
Clicked on text tool and typed in text. Choose selection-from vector object (text was made on a new layer-program does that automatically) clicked on the background image . effect-3d effetcs-inner bevel and frosted with default settings. Then the effects-drop shadow with a grey shadow. Merged

[windrider86]

c'mon guys, I know there are so really creative minds out there

[wulf]

Tricky. It is a very dark image and what is lit up shows as shaky and noisy. Let's make art rather than excuses though - here is what I came up with:



I took a copy of the brighter image of the singer, used the perspective tool to reduce the angle distortion and increased it in size. I then set this as a new layer and put it in screen mode, cropping to remove some of the other elements. This makes it look as if the other images are reflected in a large screen. I then added another layer and filled it with a blue to purple diagonal gradient (picked from colours in the image) and set that to hard light mode (blending the opacity down to taste).

I don't think the result is astounding but it makes the singer much more the focus of the image.

Wulf

[tickintime]

Little background...

This is Tim McGraw taken at the Sesquahana Bank Center in Camden, NJ. We had lawn seats and they project onto screens for those really far back. Like Nicole said I thought this was a neat idea but a lot got lost in the execution. For starters no tripod !! That coupled with the horrendous low light performance of my P&S (low light is every P&S camera's worse enemy) leads to this picture.

Just thinking a bit and even had I had a tripod, the screen would have been blurry. This was a picture of a moving image so any chance or a long exposure would be blurred by Tim's moving round on stage. Oh wel...

Windrider, that is a very unique edit!

[tickintime]

Originally Posted by wulf

Tricky. It is a very dark image and what is lit up shows as shaky and noisy. Let's make art rather than excuses though - here is what I came up with:
Wulf

I love your approach. It is something I would have never came up with. Maybe when I overturn the right rock and find that hidden "pot-o-camera" The starting point will be a much better one. Needless to say, I will have to put this into my ever-so-tiny, but growing bag of tricks.

[prince]

Here is my stab at it.

• I first tried to use the S curve and get some more visibility
• Then increased some contrast and a tiny bit of brightness
• Added some Gaussian blur to bring some softness and reduce some noise
• Applied the lens correction filter
• Duplicated a layer and added radial blur and decrease opacity to 60%

[private]

Here is my take on it... First of all, this was hard....



I brightened image added some contrast added a canvas filter and then added a signature and 123/450 (not sure what that is called) so it'll look like a print on canvas...

[IrisEyes]

Tough one! Here's what I did:

Cropped
Selected monitor; copied and pasted multiple monitors
added a cheezy audience

[jiminyClickit]

How to fit a frame with spare parts? Thought "kaleidoscope" symmetry, and collage cut/paste/flip, or even butterfly image. While looking at the butterfly joining, the skull/Xray look seemed to have promise.

Lots of layers: leave one copy of Original as base, stack everything else on it.

- Cut lower left corner city lights, resize to fit entire frame.
- Cut lower right purple lights, resize to fit entire frame.
- Copy resized purple lights, flip top for bottom.
- Distort image of CW singer to more of a square. Make four copies.
- Flip two of those to mirror image. Arrange 4 images as shown, merge.
- Paste 5th copy on upper right as shown.
- Cut oval shapes out of purple light, blur, place in eye sockets of "skull."
- Add vignette to ease bright edges.

Opacities and modes are too numerous and changed too often to record. Play with them.