What Would You Do (#73)

[jiminyClickit]

On a copy of original:

- Select individual out of background, mirror-imaged
- Copy/paste 20 times, arranging, overlapping top to bottom
- Slightly darken gradually front to back
- One copy is Hue-enhanced, lightened some
- Title added

[lbaranyai973]

I thought to make something surreal because I felt high contrast between costumes and the forest.



The original layer was duplicated and desaturated (by brightness). The original was divided by the second. New layer was created with a copy and Gaussian blur (5x5) was applied. Layermask was added and used to clear blur around the head (gradient+manual). Original and modified layers were merged with 90% opacity. Software: Gimp

[TomboTheTominator]

using Photoshop:
- Used a LucisArt filter to sculpt the image.
- copied original image on top and set mode to color to fix color shift in lucisart
- created a channel mixer adjustment layer set to monochrome, upped the red, lowered the blue. Set opacity to ~75% to allow a bit of original color back in
- masked out the hair of both girls
- added a solid color adjustment layer set to a dark brownish color, masked out the hair again, and lowered the opacity to ~30%

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[hlkljgk]

TomboTheTominator
nice work!

[baldmountain]

I looked and thought about this one and to be honest, I just can't see anything. If it was an important family shot I'd save it as a family snapshot, otherwise, I'd just delete it. After all it is "What would you do?"

[reid506]

Just cropped. I really want Photoshop.

[starrylaurie]

See her larger

my take on it included flipping her stance, deleting everything in the background, layering multiples of her skirt at varying sizes to give her a long flowing one, and making her a pretty fairy. The hair color just made me thingk fairy! Then I continued layering her with a stock forest photo, some fog, and additional texture.

After a long week, this was good therapy! Thanks for the fun, peeper!

[FromtheBackofaHorse]

I wish I could figure out the gimp program I downloaded but I seem to be pp stupid. I am just amazed at the skills some of you have!

[lbaranyai973]

Dear FromtheBackofaHorse,

I can recommend two books to start:
1.) Akkana Peck (2006): Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional); ISBN-10: 1590595874 ; ISBN-13: 978-1590595879
2.) Klaus Goelker (2006): GIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software; ISBN-10: 1933952032 ; ISBN-13: 978-1933952031