What Would You Do (#64)

[Nicole]

Ok, this week was just busy. And then my internet connection flaked. So....

Better late than never is this week's WWYD from private.



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The rules are simple as always. Edit this picture, come back, show us what you did and give us an explanation of how you got from here to there. If you want your picture featured as a WWYD, just send me a PM with a link to the medium and large version of the photo.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[genielamb]

hmm 32 views so far and no posts. Well nothing like jumping right in. Saw this on another post and had to give it a try, this photo seemed perfect.. my result



Basic steps:
Cropped, played with levels, cloned out 'sensor bugs', duplicated layer, glowing edges, changed oppacity. Created new layer, moved to bottom, filled with light blue. Changed second layer mode to screen (to lighten the entire effect) Merged all layers. Applied Rubiks cube . Changed background to my own creation. Added frame and resized. A fun effect.

[amy57689]

[KodiakStar]

I wasn't very creative this week!

[oldwolf]

one burn layer at 100% opacity. one dodge layer at 53% opacity. a lot of cloning love to get rid of the clouds.



larger picture looks a little bit better.

[Heidilyn]

Here is my play.



Duplicated the layer and flipped it horizontal.
Messed with the Color Balance.
Duplicated it again.
Messed with Color Balance again.
Added a texture layer.
Changed the color balance on that too and set it to overlay with a Gaussian Blur.
Added a border.

[jiminyClickit]

Breeze, flowers move, butterfly moves on. Not a bad photo, just needed a little "something."

Crop into the better group of blooms. Flip left for right, Brighten, Saturate, make 5 copies:

- Each copy is reduced in size (5% increments) and Opacity (from 50% through 90%)
- Each is Desaturated and Blurred some.
- These are layered in descending positions to simulate motion of the blooms.
- Photo of a monarch is copied 5 times, each one reduced in Opacity as above.
- Each copy is arranged in a slight curve as illustrated.

[starrylaurie]

I rotated the flowers to look towards the sky more, selected the sky and doubled it by layering, cloning, and healing after removing the flowers & adding additional clouds. Added the flowers back in after deleting the sky from that layer and adding ½ of the flowers into it to make it fuller. Did a bit of color balancing, and added border x 2.

[genielamb]

I liked the original position of the flowers, it gave me the feeling they were being blown by the wind OR caught in the rain. So, I created some...



Cropped, levels, highlights, created rainbow, added rain and frame.

[lindyannajones]

Originally Posted by jiminyClickit

Breeze, flowers move, butterfly moves on. Not a bad photo, just needed a little "something."

Crop into the better group of blooms. Flip left for right, Brighten, Saturate, make 5 copies:

- Each copy is reduced in size (5% increments) and Opacity (from 50% through 90%)
- Each is Desaturated and Blurred some.
- These are layered in descending positions to simulate motion of the blooms.
- Photo of a monarch is copied 5 times, each one reduced in Opacity as above.
- Each copy is arranged in a slight curve as illustrated.

Really creative!