What Would You Do (#6)

[Nicole]

Last week's What Would You Do thread was all about a gorgeous landscape scene from Evran.

This week, we switch to a different subject. Richard has submitted a picture of a cat for you guys to work your Photoshopping skills on



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As usual, do what you do best to make the picture your own. Change it, turn the cat orange, crop in and focus on the nose... do whatever you think would make this picture into something that's your own (note: these are not serious suggestions... though if I see a zoomed in orange nose I'm gonna know that someone took me far too seriously ). Have fun with this shot, and show us what would you do!

For anyone who wants to have a picture used in a future thread, please send me a PM with links to the medium and large size of the picture. If you have any questions, send me a PM or ask here. I'm always so thrilled when you guys are excited enough about the thread to send in new submissions to be featured (and of course, I'm also excited when checking to see what people have done in the thread).

Now, let's see what you'd do.

[matthewchj]

Selective colour: increase black
Increase contrast
Selected around eyes and nose, then played with Curves layer
Then, of course, Unsharp mask

[ribkaje]

Here's my attempt.

1. Duplicated Background. Selected 'Overlay' and set Opacity to 51%. Applied Gaussian Blur (7.1 pixels)
2. Applied the following settings for 'Selective Color'.

Reds: -16%, +81% , -23%, 0%
Yellows: -81%, -48%, +3%, 0%
Magentas: 0%, +12, -1%, +1%

3. Used 'Curves' with following settings.

Red: ( 85, 99) & (128, 176)
Green: (102, 117) & (134, 178)
Blue: ( 91, 123) & (123, 175)

[JJthethird]

1/ Crop 2/ Cloned (not that well) the black background to remove the brown areas. 3/ Sharpened the eyes slightly 4/ Levels adjusted.

John.

[windrider86]

Cropepd it down. Played with color levels a bit. I use Paint Shop Pro and then played with mirror images

[Teewinot]

My goal for this photo was to emphasize the eyes.



What I did:
-Cropped to establish a rule of thirds composition (eye, nose, eye).
-Duplicated layer
-Desaturated the duplicate layer
-Adjusted the midtones of the duplicate layer (-30)
-Erased the eyes on the duplicate layer to allow the yellow eyes on the original layer to show through
-Increased saturation of the eyes quite a bit
-Cloned out some eye blemishes to make them more uniform
-Also cloned the pattern from the left eye into the right eye so the two eyes would match better
-Added a 'sunburst' to the light spot in the left eye
-Added borders

[JJthethird]

Can anyone help? The post that I placed on this thread has received a comment and a fave on my Flickr account, although I had credited the photo to Richard, I still feel a bit funny about getting comments etc for other peoples shots. Is there any way that I can post on this thread without having the image in my Flickr gallery?

By the way, well done Richard, your cat is now a favourite of "ziiz" on Flickr.

Teewinot - Excellent work, well done!

John.

[Teewinot]

Originally Posted by JJthethird

Can anyone help? The post that I placed on this thread has received a comment and a fave on my Flickr account, although I had credited the photo to Richard, I still feel a bit funny about getting comments etc for other peoples shots. Is there any way that I can post on this thread without having the image in my Flickr gallery?

By the way, well done Richard, your cat is now a favourite of "ziiz" on Flickr.

Teewinot - Excellent work, well done!

John.

John, thanks for your comment.

When I post edited photos to this "what you would do" series, I make sure I mark the photo as "private" in Flickr. That way, it shows up on DPS, but no one else can view it on Flickr. I'm sure it's ok what happened to the cat photo since you did give credit to Richard. Perhaps you could just make those sorts of photos private in the future. Hope this helps.

[JJthethird]

Thanks Teewinot, done now!

John.

[xxpinballxx]

Love your shot at it Tee!
Great color and sharpness to it. Love the crop!