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Old 09-18-2007, 10:13 AM
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It's Tuesday (in NZ at least), so you know what that means... another week of WWYD

This week is a picture from tekla, and it's a first for the WWYD threads... underwater photography.



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Old 09-18-2007, 11:13 AM
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I'll go first!

WWYD Underwater

First I adjusted the levels to get rid of the slightly washed out feel (pun unintended, I assure you). Then I adjusted the colour balance, dragging the slider all the way over to the red. Then I applied the dark strokes filter, then dragged on a black and white layer that formed the border - where the picture shows is black, outside the picture is white, and shades of grey are the partially transparent parts of the image. This layer was set to Lighten so the picture would show through the black areas. Then I added a canvasy texture to give it the painting feel.

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Old 09-18-2007, 12:26 PM
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I upped the contrast & tone mapped , played with the color & did a graguated tint to brighten the top & did B&W focal to bring the focus up ,croped a little of the B&W area , sharpened the fish eyes and some of the closer fish to create more depth & smoothed the speckels 75 % to clear up the photo . It is a neat photo I enjoyed playing with this one , not the best at photo editing & I used more steps than needed i am sure ,hope you like it .
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Old 09-18-2007, 01:55 PM
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Circular Fisheye lens!!



1. Despeckled (x3)
2. Levels
3. Brightness/Contrast
4. Add extra canvas to facilitate distortion
5. Free transform-Warp: Change into circular shape
6. Spherize
7. Crop, Resize canvas to 3:2 aspect ratio
8. Fill empty canvas with black
9. Unsharp Mask
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Old 09-18-2007, 03:27 PM
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This is my first attempt at the WWYD thread. I couldn't think of anything particularly creative or clever, so I just tried to brighten the photo up a bit.


  • Copied and pasted photo in new layer (so I had a bottom layer and a top layer)
  • Adjusted curves of top layer to bring out the colors more, and adjusted levels to re-brighten the photo
  • Gaussian blur on top layer at 5px, set blending mode to overlay and reduced opacity to 40%
  • Dust and scratches filter on bottom layer at default settings
  • Sharpened bottom layer a whole lot with unsharp mask (enough so that it looked very unnatural on its own)
  • Used Film Grain filter on bottom layer, settings Grain 1, Highlight Area 0, Intensity 1
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Old 09-18-2007, 03:55 PM
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  1. First duplicated the image onto another layer and set to multiply to darken a bit.
  2. Then, added a curves adjustment layer as outlined in a photoshopusertv podcast, where the idea is to give the skin back its normal flesh tones. Adjusted the red curve and the blue curve.
  3. Finally, added a level adjustment and adjusted all values to histogram.
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Old 09-18-2007, 04:56 PM
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edited underwater photo

I liked the composition of the original. The two problems that I saw were the large amount of sediment in the water and the color balance, so that's what I fixed.

Remove the larger sediment with...
Filter - Noise - Dust and Scratches... (radius = 2pixels, threshold = 6levels)

Remove the smaller dust noise with Neat Image (auto settings)

Adjust the colors of the result with...
New Adjustment Layer - Curves (click auto, then use the midpoint color balance dropper to find a neutral gray off the mask)
New Adjustment Layer - Hue/Saturation (saturation +35 only for the reds in the suit)
New Adjustment Layer - Curves (made a linear shift to brighten the midtones and compress the long highlights tail)
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Applied Color boost, duplicate layer, gaussian blur/hue Saturation to bring out highlights and black edges. Polar co-ordinates rotate canvas, polar co-ordinates again. Add solid layer color under orb. Flatten Image... Hope I didn't forget anything!
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GOAL:
No real goal this time, just played around until I saw something I liked.

What I did (in Paint Shop Pro 8):
-Unsharp mask (radius 75, strength 30)...three times
-Saturation boost (~10)
-Curves adjustment (increased brightness)
-Duplicated Layer
-Applied gaussian blur (60)
-Layer blend mode DIFFERENCE at 100%
-Merged layers
-Curves adjustment (increased brightness)
-Added borders

What you would do #18
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Old 09-18-2007, 07:21 PM
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Wow, fantastic guys! I think this is one of the best responses we've had! And so quick too Keep it up!
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