What Would You Do (#13)

[Nicole]

Week 13, and here's hoping there's nothing unlucky about it

This week we have a picture from ladytx that's blown out. She wants to know what you can do with it aside from delete it.



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So, let's see what you can do with the picture. Feel free to be as creative as you want. Just do whatever it is you would do. And don't forget to come back here and share the steps you took to create your masterpiece .

If you want your picture to be the subject of one of these threads, just drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large version of your picture.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[shazzt]

Well this is my attempt. He look like he is just about to jump out of a plane and that is exactly how I would look so I related!!

What I did was:
- cropped the photo
- duplicate the photo and apply a multiply layer blend to reduce the overexposure
- I thought that since it was blown out anyway, going with a cross processed look might work, so I followed this tutorial to get that effect. I use Photoshop Elements 4 which doesn't have a curves option, so I used the Easy Filter Curves plugin on a duplicate layer and used a Color layer blend
- I did a highpass sharpen

[Firemaine]

Seeing as how he looked liked he was jumpng out of an airplane. This is what I did
Made a copy
Added the sky with clouds
Added the plane
Tried to work with the comtrast and brightness on his face.
Used the ripple effect on his face to try and make it look like the force of the wind.
Blured the plane in the distance a little.
Some cloning and color correction.

Hope this works for you?

[windrider86]

First I did it in infra red, then adjusted the contrast a bit. next I applied a charcoal filter/effect. Then i duplicated it and set it on screen. Duplicatedi t again and gave it an graussian blur set on about 25. Then reset it on multipy adjusted the opacity and merged the layers

[johanmw]

Heres my try on this:



I duplicated the layer.
Made the new layer multiply blend.
Blurred it with a bit of gaussian blur.
Then i opened a picture of barch (i think it's called) from a tree, set it to vivid light blend, and put the opacity to 50%, and deleted all of the area, except from a bit of the head, and nothing at the neck.

[ready123smile]

Usually I'll just convert it to B&W if it is too overexposed.

1. 1st convert the image to B&W using the channel mixer - (see tuturial for this at DPS)
2. Duplicate the image twice. 2nd layer is for the face and the 3rd layer for the background.
3. Adjusted the contrast/brightness and levels for the face layer according to your preference and merge.
4. Adjusted the contrast/brightness and levels for the background layer according to your preference and then merge again.
5. Lastly is creating a mask on my background layer and painting the face area to reveal the 2nd face layer.
6. Merge all layers and save.

[Nicole]

Wow, I've got to say I'm totally impressed so far with all the fixes of this This is what WWYD is all about.

BTW, firemaine, I was wondering if anyone would do that to the pic! Looks good

[jiminyClickit]

As long as there's Noise, blown highlights are not so bad:

- Using 5 layers, most with noise added
- One layer is a negative, Hue adjusted to get some balance to light/dark
- Magenta and Yellow added to get color into the noise
- Eyes fixed with cloning, erasing and saturation
- Face and neck placed on separate layer so b/g color can be adjusted
- Cyan and blue added to b/g to get military look to jumpsuit
- Layers erased through to get highlights back

[peeperita]

i just love this thread....



duplicated the background layer.....hit it with levels til i liked where it was going....set this layer to multiply.....duped backgound again....poster edged it slightly and set this layer to multiply too.....increased canvas width with black....set type....

hope ya like it

peeper

[ciogi]

I just used Picasa2 to do some minor editing to the photo, like the black and white, then I moved to Photoshop Elements 4 did some midtone contrast adjustments and darkened the photo. Let me know what you think!!