What Would You Do (#27)

[Nicole]

Another week of what would you do is upon us

This week, we have a picture from Teinee for you to work your editing magic on:



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The rules are simple, should you choose to accept the challenge. Use the photo, edit it, come back and show us what you have done, and finally, give us an explanation of how you did it so that the rest of us can learn from it.

If you want your picture used in one of these threads, please drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large size of the picture. I'm always looking for pictures, so if you have something that you think could use a bit of fixing, why not let the DPS community have a try at it.

Now, let's see what you would do!

[windrider86]

This was tough because it is all ready a very colorful picture but had a hard time with the flower int he front being out of focus so I tried numerous attempts before i came up with this one.


Cropped image, Duplicated later, Mulitply and lowered opacity, Adjustment layer - brought up the satuation in the green, Mirrored image, selective sharpening & selective softening, used weave effect, highpas sharpen, boosted colros one more time and then merged all layers.

[Teewinot]

GOAL: Since there was so much color in this photo I thought I would try to single out the leaf via selective color.

What I did (in Paint Shop Pro XI):
-Crop
-Duplicated layer
-Desaturated and colorized sepia (15)
-Erased leaf on duplicated layer
-Unsharp mask (35) on sepia layer
-Adjusted histogram midtones (-13) on sepia layer
-Unsharp mask (20) on color layer
-Merged layers
-Cloned a little around the flower petal edges to better blend into the leaf
-Added borders

[jiminyClickit]

windrider86,

Once a week I see a new technique I can't possibly replicate. Weave effect is a winner. Well done.

Teewinot,

Less is more. Way to see through the crowd, and accent the 'character.' Well done.

[xxpinballxx]

well wind inspired me to try something similar....took a year to do but was fun trying to get a similar image with just looking....

[snapdragon]

I wanted to try the magic mirror & came up with this I think it looks like a pretty hand painted plate .

[OneArmedScissor125]

Duplicated the background layer three times; added gaussian blur to the middle copy and set the highlight levels of the top copy to about 200. Set the mode of the levels adjusted layer to screen and lowered the opacity of the blur and levels layers. Merged all the layers except for the original background and duplicated the new merged layer twice. Added a GIMPressionist filter to the top layer, using changing the paper and brush, changing size, orientation, increased the number of directions, and kept the original background. Changed the opacity of the GIMPressionist layer and the other merged layer, and then merged all the layers.

[Teewinot]

jiminy, thanks!

There are a lot of excellent edits this week...very creative everyone!

[MikeM]

Here's an Out of Bounds type one.

[wulf]

The out of bounds idea works really well for this. The original suffers from the lack of a clear focal point. Ideas like selective colour help pick something out but OOB is also a solid approach.

Wulf