What Would You Do? 119

[windrider86]

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This weeks challenge, is an all ready wonderful landscape from Fstop Mike. I all ready have a ton of ideas

Thank you so much for always being so willing to play!

The rules are simple, edit the image anyway that you see fit.

Remember, to post the steps you took to acheive your final product. This challenge is as much about learning as it is about sharing with others so that they may learn.

Now, let's see what you would do!

Link to larger version




All I had on this one is the medium size image. Mike if you have a larger one can you post a link to it?


If you would like to submit an image for this challenge, please send me a medium sized image (in html code is a plus) and alink to a larger image

[Vail Marston]

This reminded me of some old family slides I was going through recently, so I tried to give it a bit of a worn look.

In Paint Shop Pro:

• Adjusted the color balance of the original image.
• Made two copies on separate layers.
• On the first layer, increased the sharpness of the mountain areas and adjusted the levels to somewhat overexpose the image.
• On the second layer, added motion blur toward the right to the leafy foreground areas and applied gaussian blur to the entire image, adjusted the levels to overexpose this layer as well.
• Set the second layer to Multiply.
• Added a levels adjustment layer and refined the contrast.
• Added saturation adjustment layer with a circular gradiant fill to reduce the saturation around the edges of the image.
• Added a couple of picture frames and adjusted their visibility to add some flaws around the edges.
• Added a white border.

[windrider86]

I tried to get this to be a black and white but nothing really looked right. So, with all the wonderful colors in I thought it might look nice as a paitning. So I simply ran it thru Corel Painter under the underpainting effect. Brought it back into PSP and added a fractalious effect layer, Changed the blend mode to overlay and lowered the opcaity. This gave the lighter colors a bit of a boost.

[ydnew44]

http://QUOTE]duplicated, enlarged canvas, flipped horizontal, merged, dupl.flipped vertical, dragged below & moved to make look like island in river gorge[/QUOTE]

[CanonRebelz]

This is my first time to try this "what would you do" stuff.
Threw this together really fast, if you were to view it large then you could see lots of mistakes.

• Opened in gimp.
• First added a stock texture I found on the internet that is sorta like a canvas.
• Filters>Artistic>Apply Canvas
• Used the smudge tool on the original image
• Used the dodge tool on the canvas layer
• Flattened image
• Maybe some other things

[douglas]

A pity to "change" such a nice picture!!!

In Gimp
Colours-Hue and saturation Master tag
Reduce lightness and contrast until I got what looked like moonlight.
A moon picture,scaled to fit the image,and reduced opacity,copied and pasted onto picture.
Added cloud effect in front of moon
And that's about it.

[Vail Marston]

Originally Posted by CanonRebelz

This is my first time to try this "what would you do" stuff.
Threw this together really fast, if you were to view it large then you could see lots of mistakes

This is great. It really captures the feel of an old landscape painting that's been sitting above the fireplace for a hundred years.

[peeperita]

i went for the painting look as well.....



the first thing i wanted to do was correct the color of the foliage....isolated it and corrected with a locked layer of levels....blue slider pulled right....same adjustment on the mountain, sky, and water.....but less so.....evened out the scene's color with a layer of orange turned way down.....painted with underpainting filter.....selectively lightened and darkened areas of the scene to taste.......thought a little sunshine would look nice, so i panted in a diffused yellow in the center of the trees.....vignette and that's it.....

peeper

[naeno]

Mike, this was one beautiful capture!



Fixed overblown areas, Filter-Decor-Old Photo, this created a new photo to work on, in the new image I opened the original as a layer and moved the layer to the bottom, I decreased the opacity of the "Old Photo" layer to bring more color back, opened the rainbow as a layer and masked out any unwanted portions, then positioned it under the Old Photo layer but above the photo layer. Did an unsharp mask on the photo layer, and flattened.

[donaldmullaney]

Color cast and blownout areas are the main problem, IMHO. I have adjusted those in Elements with "Shadows and Highlights" and "Color Cast"