What you would do (#1)

[xxpinballxx]

Here is another attempt. I took her outof the picture creating a layer and taking the color all the way down in that layer. Then i used the ethereal glow to give it the dream like look....

[Flippant]

well i just tried to do something simple:

applied curves just to the girl, and desat and darkened the background slightly:


pumped up the sat by using a duplicated overlay and converted to b&w using channel mixer:


i thought the composition was good as is. if i took this pic i would have been very happy.

[ELAY]

What a great idea for a thread.

Hats off to those who have gone before; here's my effort at something of a mildly gritty, antique look.

1. Slight crop to move subject left and get a bit closer.

2. A bit of curves adjustment to get the face a bit brighter (judging from the end result, though, should have paid a bit more attention here -- oh well, jmadigan has taken us all to school re levels and curves adjustments).

3. Orton effect, followed by a bit of desaturation to bring the colours back down a bit.

4. Duplicate background, convert to BW (I just desaturated for this) and then tint with sepia. Blend this layer on either hard or soft light (i forget).

5. Add film grain, and paste the fake through-the-lens frame into a new layer, blended on darken only.

Somewhere in there I lightened the eyes a little bit too, by making a duplicate layer, lightening with curves, then masking transparent and painting the eyes back in.

I work in Gimp, but I think this will translate well enough. Most (all?) of these steps were cribbed from 3rd Foundation over at flickr -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/3rdfoundation

EL

[hitkaiser]

· Took RAW file and opened up in Adobe RAW plugin.
Increased exposure slider (hitting alt key to check I wasn't overdoing it)
Increased "Recovery" slider till red lines on histograms were greatly reduced
Increased blacks, again hitting alt key to check I wasn't overdoing it
Bumped up vibrance & saturation
Removed all options of sharpening and noise reduction
Cropped to make portrait orientation

· Opened up the file in photoshop
Adjusted levels and curves to boost contrast slightly
Applied Noiseware filter to remove grain
Selected (and feathred) Eyes, applied unsharp mask

And voila...

for the b&w I went back to the RAW, chose monochrome.. greatly bumped blacks and exposure and did the whole eye sharpening thing again. Removed noise with noiseware.

[jmadigan]

Nice job, hitkaiser. I like your color one better than mine. The portrait cropping loses something of the umbrella (I just like the color and how it cuts across most of the top 1/3 of the frame in the uncropped version), but yours feels much tighter and eliminates the distracting background without losing the message that this is a little girl playing in the rain.

[trelaflip]

here is my attempt. only working on 5 hours of sleep so im not sure about it lol



now that i look at it i wish i would of gone portrait style instead.

[komalthecoolk]

I wanted to focus on making the image look like it was really a cloudy/rainy day.

Made a layer copy of the original. Desaturated the background a bit and gave it a slightly bluish-green tinge.

Erased the part with the kid in it and adjust the saturation a bit so that the whole pic looks dark/rainy but the kid still looks colourful.

Added a slight vignetting effect and adjusted the curves jussssst a bit.

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[evran]

Original:


Edit:


Alright well spent about an hour or so on this edit using both adobe camera raw and photoshop cs3

Camera RAW:
- Custom WB settings with a little warmer tone
- Increased black areas to ensure colored areas showed up a little more vibrantly
- increased vibrance slightly and lowerd saturation to give it a midtonal range of colors
- Tone curve was edited similarly to the medium contrast settings
- Really worked on the Hues to set the base colors
- Added a little vignette in lens correction setting but mostly did it manually in photoshop later
- In the camera calibration settings, I only worked on the saturations of each primary to get the tones I wanted
- Saved & opened in photoshop


Photoshop:
Not really sure how to explain this part without telling you guys exactly what I did, mostly layer adjustments were made

- started out w/ gradient maps to set colors on certain parts of the shot
- increased exposure and gamma settings
- neutral colors were adjusted on relative method setting
- first set of gaus blur for the background + mask
- levels + curves + color balances
- smudge
- second set of gaus blurs + mask
- curve + mask
- sharpen + mask
- the end


edit//
- was wondering if I could post this on my flickr, will credit the original photographer
- just realized how zombish I made her look

[rachel_r]

I went with a more traditional portrait look. Here is what I did:

RawShooter:
· Color Temp: 6350
· Tint: 4
· Highlight Contrast: 15
· Hue: 25
· Sharpness: 6
· Noise suppression: 4
· All other settings default

Photoshop
1. Rotate & crop
2. Eyes Layer

a. Dodge Whites
b. Burn edge on iris
c. Dodge inner iris
d. Burn eyelashes

3. Brightened left side of face to match right (partial screen layer @ 40%)
4. Sharpen eyes
5. Layer

a. Filter - Median – 10
b. Layer opacity– 50%
c. Layer mask- Mask out areas that need to stay sharp – eyes, mouth, nostrils etc

6. Filter – Diffuse Glow

a. Grain – 0, Glow Amt – 1, Clear Amt - 15

[xhan]

TBH I'd do absolutely nothign with that photo its great! No amount of money would make me put a filter on it!!

I could desaturate and up the contrast but thats it!