What Would You Do (#61)

[Nicole]

Oops, time caught up with me this week, but never fear, there is a WWYD.

This week's picture is... well... of our esteemed Supermod, wulf. It's a picture of him, but it was taken by a friend, and he wants to know some ways to make it stand out more.



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The rules are simple as always, use the picture in this post, edit it, come back, and post your results along with what you did (it is a way to learn after all!). If you'd like your picture to be the subject of one of these threads, just send me a PM with a link to a medium and large size of your image. I'm always looking for new images to add to the list. Now, let's see what you would do!

[windrider86]

Here we go again............. Duplicate layer. adjust levels to brighten everything up. mask layer-painted over areas around wulf that I wanted to stay dark. flatten-duplicate-effects/find all edges-change blend mode to overlay-erase around face, arms, guitar and strap to keep smooth. flatten. duplicate- effets curlicues and adjusted till I found the size I liked. mask layer-paint over face, arms, guitar and strap so they dont have curlies all over them. flatten. duplicate - fractaliious plug in. mask layer and paint over areas I dont want to show. flatten. blue ever so slightly to smooth over noise. unsharp mask. vignette

except looking at now I wish I would have lef the culies off the bottom part

[xxpinballxx]

This is done in QTPFSGUI.....twice.
Then overlayed in CS3 and tone mapped in photomatix and then my normal vignetting and contrast and sharpening and blur...

[Taallyn]

Processed with PSE 5 + Layer Mask Plug-in.

1) Brighted with levels.
2) Sharpened with Unsharp Mask.
3) Duplicated background layer.
4) Applied Stained Glass Filter
5) Removed Wulf and guitar from Stained Glass filter effect via layer mask.
6) Duplicated background layer.
7) Applied Pallet Knife Filter.
8) Removed guitar from Pallet Knife effect via layer mask.
9) Duplicated background layer.
10) Applied Glowing Edges filter.
11) Only guitar affected by glowing edge filter as other elements included in other layer masks.

[mitzer]

This is my first try at one of these, it's fun! I made a duplicate layer with a blurred spotlight layer mask, adjusted curves. Then I selected the background color that was too close to the color of his face and desaturated with a 50% transparent layer. Then made another duplicate layer in overlay mode, adjusted curves, and gaussian blurred.

[lputman]

Wow...all of those are great!

[Heidilyn]

Here is my play.


What I did:
~Duplicated layer
~Adjusted levels to brighten
~Added Accented Edges for effect

[Nicole]

Some fun ones this week, that works really well for this kind of shot windrider Nicely done with the skin tones Heidilyn.

[wulf]

Aha! I wondered why this picture had suddenly attracted a bit more attention!

Looking forward to watching more ideas (rock'n')roll in...

Wulf

[oldwolf]

Here's my take on it.



The larger pic looks a bit better

I used PSP X2. Created a dupe color layer. Converted the top layer to a platinum type b&w that was popular between 1873-1920. Erased the guitar on the b&w layer. Flattened the layers then applied a USM to the whole thing.

Oh, I cropped it too.