What Would You Do? 124

[windrider86]

I'm all out of submissions so I used one of my older images for you guys to play with. (hint, hint, I need more photos)

The rules are simple, edit the image anyway that you see fit and then post the steps you took to get to your final image.

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 image

[ydnew44]

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cropped to expand foreground, desaturated,copied bits of ground, web grabbed reindeer in his harness,added custom shape and text;seasonal touch!

[SriMesh]

Made a lasso mask around the lion and smoothed and feathered.
Made duplicate layer of "Standoff". Added lion from commons photographed by Yaaay, and matched colours.
Added Filter Render Lens Flare.
Added Filter Render Lighting Effects 2 O'Clock Spotlight around the lens flare to make it look like sunrise.
Added quote.

“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.*”

[windrider86]

Didnt spend a lot of time on this
Added Flaming Pear Flood. Erased the critters to look like they were mostly underwater. Blended int he shore by using the erasor tool with 0 hardness.
Added shark fin and erased areas I didnt want to show from the orginal image
and, it's dinner!!!

[naeno]

♪ It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! ♪



Opened image, opened frozen pond image as layer, added layer mask to deer and masked unwanted portion and adjusted levels, copied each deer and pasted into a new transparent layer, rotated and flipped each deer to mirror itself, added a layer mask to upside down reindeer and did a linear blend to make a reflection of the deer, reduced reflection layer, added "clouds" in a new layer and reduced opacity, I think that's about it.

[douglas]

Great posts all, specially like the frozen pond, and reflections! A lot of work!! Still waiting for inspiration!

[douglas]

What is that?

AAH, it,s just Rudolph AGAIN, keep still he may not see us.



used blend ,blue/green, top to bottom
Changed colors to my liking,
Was too dark so duplicate in screen mode
Added red white light for approaching Rudolph.

[senzhi]

- Converted into a pseudo-HDR
- Reduced noise
- Played around with contrast, tones & colour
- Added some fractals
- Reduced noise again
- Sharpened up a bit
- Some cropping.

[Vail Marston]

I was inspired by Naeno's beautiful frozen pond image to try something in the same vein.

In Paint Shop Pro:

• Added a sky image layer from another picture and inverted it.
• Duplicated the original image and inverted it.
• Removed everything from the inverted image except the antelope.
• Repositioned the antelope slightly to match the different viewing angle in the reflection.
• Merged with the sky image.
• Used Motion Blur and the Smudge tool to create some ripples in the water.
• Moved the original image layer to the top, removed the bottom portion and darkened and feathered the edge to blend into the water.
• Adjusted color and contrast on all the layers and merged.

[Vail Marston]

Originally Posted by senzhi

This is excellent, like an abstract scratchboard drawing.