What Would You Do (#73)

[Nicole]

Time for another WWYD And this week's is from one of our wonderful mods, Peeperita



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The rules for WWYD are simple. Exceedingly so. Edit the picture, come back, and show us and tell us what you did (the tell us what you did part is so we can learn from you). That's it!

If you'd like one of your pictures featured as a WWYD starting photo, drop me a PM with links to the medium and large versions of your photo.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[KodiakStar]

I think I prefer blue...

[windrider86]

Peeperita, Please dont shoot me for this one!
I used the warp tool for her eyes, legs, waist and boobs. The push tool for her mouth. Levels to brighten and darken areas. Vignette to darekn around her and brighten her teeth up by using the tooth brightener tool.

[Midwest Sunset]

Here's my version - Happy Halloween



I did alot of playing with this one - I did a lasso selection, feathered, erased background, added a digital background, adjusted levels, vignette add, lomo action & custon vignette with layers

*phew* I think that's how it went

[genielamb]

Crop
a little basic enhancement (levels, saturation, sharpening etc)
creation of background (gradient overlayed on very lightened original and a little rendering)
Photo-drawing conversion
selective masking
edge deletion to allow original to show through
two frames added for effect.
VOILA!

EDIT: Oh Boy I LOVE that skirt!

[Midwest Sunset]

Genie~ I love your conversion!! I didn't even think of coming at it from that angle & I love using the drawing to photo conversion. All I kept thinking was "I have to get rid of that busy background"

Well done!

[Sela]

-isolated girl
-gaussian blur on skin
-pasted sky into image with gradient on layer mask to fade it out over land
-used Flaming Pear's flood filter

And a bunch of little things I can't remember !

Is this image size too large? I can resize it.

[Midwest Sunset]

Originally Posted by Sela

-isolated girl
-gaussian blur on skin
-pasted sky into image with gradient on layer mask to fade it out over land
-used Flaming Pear's flood filter

Sela~ great job! I'm curious - how did you isolate the girl, your edges look impeckable.

[ZebsterBC]

I went for an on-stage look
I used the quick selection tool and selected the person and copied twice to new layers.
On the first layer, I applied lighting effect RGB (under filters>render>lighting effects). I then lightened shadows until the face was more visible.
On the second layer, I desaturated, then used levels to turn it to a black silhouette. I applied gaussian blur and reduced opacity until it looked like a shadow, then positioned it a bit to the side.
On the original layer, I applied a textured background from photoshop, then applied the lighting effect RGB to create a spotlight effect.

[Sela]

Midwest Sunset,
Thanks!
I read a tip that to make an isolation look less 'cut out' try smoothing the edges (with the smooth tool, set to a gentle pressure, though I'm sure there are other ways to do it with various selection tools). I smoothed the edges in some places, and used the blur tool on the edges in other places. For the actual isolation I wasn't feeling very inventive and just erased the background manually with the eraser tool.