What Would You Do (#23)

[peeperita]

hey, girl.....i'm back from a great night out.....unfortunately, my computer would have none of your cooperating concept....

by now, i have no idea what to do....i have tried any number of combinations in my color settings to no avail.....i did discover that an unedited file opened with my windows viewer (which matches what i get when i uploaded edited ones to flickr) i get a darker, bluer image than when i open it with photoshop.....which is precisely what you've been telling me all along....photoshop's workspace isn't giving me the true color from the get go.....

anyway.....i'll keep hammering at it over the weekend....do me a favor, if you don't mind.....go through line by line....box by box and tell me where your settings are....that is if you haven't customized it like a hot rod.....maybe, i have inadvertently checked a bad box for me......maybe the conversion options are the culprit?..

i hate this because the weekends are when i like to sit around and edit my little heart out and i can't do it accurately enough till this is solved...

at any rate.....i did get the number for the specific software tech support people......alll i have to do is wait it out til monday.....

thanks for your patience....

peeper

[Nicole]

Will post my exact settings for you in a few hours. Just getting dinner ready now, so it'll have to wait Glad you had a good night out, and don't worry about it, it's a right pain when computers don't cooperate.

[peeperita]

believe it or not, i did it....and just to prove it, i re-edited the image that began this thread in the first place.....



the steps changed a tad, but this is still closer to what i saw in photoshop the first time.....

nicole, if you hadn't had me pointed in the right direction i never would have been able to do this on my own.....i'm gonna bake you a cake one day!

thanks for everything....

peeper

[Nicole]

Great! Glad it finally worked See, it's just a matter of getting somewhere near what you actually need to do sometimes Much brighter colours than your previous one. Again, yay!

[genielamb]

larger image

I loved the flow of the waterfall in this image but the blurriness is a problem. I agree the best way to 0vercome this is to change the photo into a painting. Hope you like the end result.

Capture NX : used black and white control points to neutralize the dark and light tones of the image. Then cropped the image to include the flow of the waterfall

Photoshop CS2: Filter - texture - grain. Played around untill I had the desired effect and saved the image.

The image was then resized and a border added using Arles Image
Creator, only because I was too lazy to add the border and resize myself.

The completed picture maintains the flow of the water to give it depth
as well as by making it appear as a canvas painting, the blur
in the original photograph is unimportant.

[mhuk05]

Using PhotoShop I applied a Cutout filter to the main picture and separately to the bird to give it more detail. Then applied a Plastic Wrap filter.

I was trying for a Japanese feel; not quite what I wanted but here it is:

[Nicole]

Oooh, nicely done mhuk05 I kept trying to get that sort of look and couldn't.

[mhuk05]

I used the Monkeys with typewriters approach. "hmm what will it look like if I try this?"

[xxpinballxx]

I use the cutout effect quite a bit in backgrounds to bring the subject out more in some of my shots....

[gburnash]

Ok, my first time trying this, so we'll see how I do. I like Picasa since it works well with my learning curve growing skills, and since I can't afford the expensive stuff.

I cropped the picture first- wanted to get the bird out of the center to give him a little more life.
"I felt lucky" to adjust the contrast, color, and balance- I liked what it did with the photo.
Changed it to a sepia tone
increased the saturation just a bit
soft toned the edges to finish giving it a bit more of an "old time" feel

and came up with this: