What Would You Do (#30)

[windrider86]

jfray, I HAD to try this, so here is my attempt. Granted my edges are rough and my effects do not compare to yours but I am tired and rinking wine!

[prince]

I hope this worked out... Comments welcome as always

[Teewinot]

Neat idea, prince! Do you mind sharing with us how you did this?

windrider86, nice job on your try of jfray0's idea...that's what these threads are all about!! Also I like your other edit...making the bricks and snow white helps the objects pop.

Here's my try...a little lost for a goal this week, so I just played...

What I did (in PSP XI):
-Duplicated layer
-Gaussian blur to duplicate layer (50.00)
-Difference Blend of 2 layers (opacity 70%)
-Merged 2 layers into 1
-Unsharp mask (Radius 75, Strength 200)
-Curves adjustment (brightness)
-Increased saturation (20)
-Cloned off the side of the dark object on the left so it wouldn't be cut off by the frame
-Added borders

[FrankenPengie]

Couldn't get very original. The colors on the snow and ice blocks drove me nuts so I took that out and in the process, bumped up some of the highlights and brightened the snow in front. Slight saturation and contrast adjustment to get some detail out of the wooden... urn(?). A bit of glowiness to a newly flattened image with a copied overlay layer set at 35% opacity and a Gaussian Blur.

[prince]

Originally Posted by Teewinot

Neat idea, prince! Do you mind sharing with us how you did this?

Thanks Teewinot. I was originally going for the antique canvas painting look.. so..

I desaturated the image
Changed Hue/Saturation to get the desired antique colors
Added some texturizer-> Canvas

Then it struck me that paintings are put on a wall, so why not find a good room for it.. while searching came across this room pic.. cropped it to bring more focus on the painting that was already there and resize & pasted my image on the painting. Resized a little smaller than the actual painting to give some shadow effect..

Then I adjusted the curves to match the colors or the room and painting.

[snapdragon]

Originally Posted by jfray0

I don't think I did a good job with the snow though.

All I can say is WOW ,!!!! what can I do ?? here is the best I could come up with after this . I took a photo of your snow globe as seen in my candle stick .

[grummom]

Here is my version, although it does not come anywhere near the ones posted already! Holy cow!
I made a curves adjustment
I applied a watercolor action
I then made a rectangular selection around the edge, inverted the selection, and feathered about 50.
I pulled up curves and raised the left most pull to the top to increase the white around the border and added a gausian blur around the same border for a "dreamy" look.



This was my first time participating! It was a tough one!

[Teewinot]

grummom, nice job! welcome to WWYD!