What Would You Do (#72)

[Nicole]

It's still Tuesday somewhere, right?

This week's WWYD comes from Chip, and it's a picture of a yellow crowned night heron:



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The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to edit the photo in this post, come back, and post the result and tell us how you did it. Simple as that.

If you'd like your picture to be featured as a WWYD just drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large version of the image.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[windrider86]

Duplicate-Lighten up colors, selective saturation (you'll see later that I destaurated entire image, but still wanted a few areas to be brighter still)-de-noise-merge-duplicate-effects,highpas set at 6.9,blend mode overlay-merge (this sharpens image) followed this tutorial for OOB: http://www.pixeladdiction.com/bb/art...rticle&artid=3. Did some tiny touch ups. Added a border on the bottom to allow room for water. used Flaming Pear Flood plug in for water. added vingette. Used Niks Plug in Monday morning to change the overall look and desaturate. Added noise. used Flaming Pear Plug in for rough edges. AAA Foto frame for inner frame
Each added plug in was done on a different layer. This allows any changes that might need to be made. I always duplicate and make any changes ont hat layer and then merge when done. repeat for each step
Oh and lastly I somehow had chipped off the very top part of its head so I used the dropper tool to select the same yellow from another area and set my brush at 5 and painted anew top of his head on.

[Teewinot]

What I did (in PSP X2):
-Cropped
-Curves adjustment (brightness)
-RGB Curves adjustment (color)
-Saturation increase (+10)
-Shadows adjustment (-4)
-Noise Removal
-Added borders

[Midwest Sunset]

Windrider~ I love your creativity in PP!! And I am a huge fan of selective colorization - can't seem to get enough of it lately

[Sela]

Great replies so far...windrider I was also playing around with the Flaming Pear's flood filter but in the end decided to keep it simple and silly:



-On the bird picture itself I adjusted curves, added a yellow-green fill color in a layer at 10%, upped contrast.

-Placed the bird photo over the TV and adjusted perspective and size to match

-Used Alien Skin plugin "television" filter for a suble tv-effect on the bird image

[duna]

I wouldn't REALLY do this to an image I was trying to salvage. But I was watching a tutorial on this particular graphic design trick, so I thought I'd try it out.

• Crop, lengthen the canvas size to make it portrait, fill in the extra space with sand copied and pasted from the cropped area.
• Adjust levels to brighten
• Add new layer underneath the original, fill with gray selected from the image
• Hide the original image behind a layer mask
• Select a square and set it to a scatter pattern
• Paint in pieces of the original image
• Add drop shadow to the pieces

Kind of fun!

[jiminyClickit]

Cleaned up the beach of distractions, sharpened, used copy of original as base:

- Selected bird, inverted, darkened beach
- Inverted, lightened bird, selected head, lightened more
- Selected eye, lightened, sharpened, added catchlight
- Copied/pasted bird, darkened, desaturated, blurred to make shadow
- Skewed shadow into place, softened top half more
- Added slight vignette, upper right corner

[Chip]

Nicole - Thanks for using this image.

It's great to see the wonderful things that others can do to a photo. Great work!

[baldmountain]

I went boring.

In Aperture:
Auto levels luminance
A little more contrast
A little vibrancy
Some saturation (Normally I turn down saturation when I turn up vibrancy, but not this time.)
Crop square so eye is kind of close to the golden mean point. Sort of...

If I had the energy I would have repaired the log from behind the bird's mouth, but I'm just not that good with the repair tools. I like the feathers sticking up on the bird's back. I left those.

[cjvio]

Larger
Photoshop CS3
Dup layer levels adjust right slider to brighten image
flatten
Dup layer set layer to screen 20% opacity
Flatten
Dup Layer set to layer hard light 25% opacity
Flatten
Dup Layer Smart Sharpen filter Lens Blur .5 pixels 27%
Flatten
Dup Layer Reduce Noise filter Str 10 Pres 29% Reduce 0% Sharpen 26%
Flatten
Dup Layer Brightness -42 Contrast -13 adjust for sand Mask out bird
Flatten
Dup Layer Ran Optivervelabs Virtual Photographer filter Ambiance default
Flatten
Create New blank Layer
Elliptical Marquee tool
feather 100
Select inverse
fill black
Deselect
reduce opacity 36%
Flatten