What Would You Do (#86)

[Nicole]

This week's what would you do is from Mr_Mackee who says he has tried to edit the photo in several different styles but has yet to be happy with the results. So he'd like to see what you guys would do with it!



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The rules couldn't be simpler. Edit the photo in this post, then come back and show us your result and tell us how you did it. It may also be helpful to mention what program you used so that people who are new to post-processing know which program the terminology goes with.

If you'd like your photo to be the subject of one of these WWYD threads, simply drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large size of your photo. I use the photos in the order that I get them, but rest assured, I always use them.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[peeperita]

okay, ill take the bait.....



i can't say it's all that different from what i did to the last wwyd.....i must be in a rut.....

cropped, painted the sky.....used a palatte knife on a tree line selection and then masked it off so i could stick the sun in there.....,.slight vignette....

thanks

peeper

[roxifoto]

My go:


Just increased saturation and vibrance on the sky with a layer mask, increased contrast, and turned up the greens on the grass. Used CS4
I was going to attempt to clone out the water but that did not go over so well!

[mahree]

I used CS2. I duplicated the background layer and used curves to lighten it up a touch. Then I duplicated the new layer 2 times then used the color balance tool to make change each of the layers a different tone. I made a yellowish green layer, and a magenta-ish layer.

I used the magic wand to select the tops of the trees so I could blend the sky using masks (All but the yellowish green layer). I used the lasso tool to select the structures and lightened them with curves in first layer I created. I applied a gaussian blur to the masks of each layer to soften the edges a bit.

Finally, I flattened the image, went back to burn a few areas that were too light or were hard to blend in with the surrounding colors, added a soft vingette. I could have blended the trees better but I was rushing (my 4y/o wanted lunch)

I'm bet there's a faster way to do this but this is how I know to do it. Hope you like it.

[jiminyClickit]

Landscapes are OK, but animals are funner.



So, I liked the lower sky, and the water. Cropped to feature them.

- Placed copy of original as First Layer for a foundation.
- Second Layer was used to lighten middle housing area and trees.
- Third Layer got the sky segment saturation, and its reflection lightened some.
- Layers were erased and deleted in selected areas to allow for show-through.

[JoanieBC21]

Upped saturation, clarified, altered WB, masked various levels of contrast to bring out the grass and tree details.



Same steps as first version, but this time added a fantasy sky for fun.

[J5892]

Messed with the shadows/highlights a bit, brightening the grass and darkening the sky.
Then used the black & white tool and messed with the colors n' such.

From photoshop

[300busa]

I cropped it, increased the saturation, sharpened, created a frame with some focal blur around the image.

[PJZ]

- Made four virtual copies in Lightroom at varying exposures.
- Tonemapped those 4 with the original in Photomatix.
- Took the resulting .TIFF into Photoshop, masked it, and selectively took out areas of the HDR to bring back some realism.
- Dodged / Burned detail into some of the grass, clouds, and trees. Gaussian Blur.
- 9 different Hue / Saturation adjustments.
- 2 Selective Color adjustments for the Reds / Yellows.
- Bumped midtone contrast with Curves in LAB.
- Back in RGB, lowered the Green channel in Curves to change the time of day a bit.
- Burned a slight vignette and then Gaussian Blur to clean up the lines.
- Shadow/Highlight command to bump the midtone contrast again.
- One last Curves adjustment to bring it all together.
- Sharpened slightly in LAB.
- Ran a custom "Finish for Web" action that converted to sRGB and bumped the saturation by +5.

Ya know...real quick like.

[arphot]

I brought out some colors and contrast in PS CS3 then turned the processing over to PE4 for the painterly effect.

Should have worked harder on the building detail, though.