What Would You Do (#80)

[Lexy]

Here is my play.
Crop/Flip/Rotate, Defog, screen layer, soft light @20%, gradient map @25%, soft light again at 20%, clone stamp, edge burn, sharpen for web. I also doged and burned some areas. It is fun to see what everyone comes up with.

[KodiakStar]

It's time to turn over a new leaf...

[Mr Guy]

Duplicated, selected out background and feathered selection heavily.
Created a mask from the selection and multiplied the background to intensify it, and dropped the brightness a tad.

Followed wulf's DIY highpass filter by duplicating the bottom layer twice, blurring copy 1 with a guassian radius of 15ish, setting to grain extract, merging down, setting to overlay, merging down.

Then I cropped it to square, rotated, and added a vignette by duplicating it, creating a heavily blurred circular mask on the top later, darkening the top layer heavily, setting the layer to multiply, and merging it all down.

[genielamb]

it was the 'diamond' that caught me eye in this one. Simple steps, using layers, almost every step is on a new layer..
curves, levels, and saturation adjustment.
selected the 'diamond' and followed the "how to make a bubble portrait' step in the DPS blog. Copied the 'bubble several times, rotated each bubble till I was happy with the effect. Enlarged canvas to create frame. Voila, diamond bubbles....

[Nicole]

I'm feeling very renewed with all this participation in this week's WWYD And a big thanks to those of you who have sent in photos for future WWYD's. There's still room in the line though if you want to have your photo used for one and haven't sent one!

[jacobthellamer]

My attempt

Colour matched with this photo:

Ran noise filter
Levels
Dodge/burn with overlay layer and brush
Saturation layer applied with brush around edges

[Nicole]

That was a neat result jacob Welcome to DPS!

[jacobthellamer]

Originally Posted by Nicole

That was a neat result jacob Welcome to DPS!

Thanks , cant believe I didn't find this site earlier.

My new favourite I think

[Photo Lovin]

I forgot exactly where I found these backgrounds, but I found them doing a search for antiquing techniques some time ago.
I have layered the background and "coffee stain" and played with transperancy to make blend better.
I cropped the challenge picture using the sqaure selection tool with feathering. I then applied a sepia tone and played with transperancy to make blend.

[padsbrother]

First-time poster - be gentle with me

What I did (using GIMP)
- Rotate 90 degrees
- Adjust curves to get the colours you see
- Tight crop
- Clone out the stalk running from bud to top right corner
- Add noise over cloned area to make the area look JPEGy
Looking at the smaller version I think I could have spent a bit longer with the cloning but hey... you get the idea!