What Would You Do? 126

[windrider86]

This weeks wonderful landscape was brought to you by TTHW! Thanks a million for this!

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!<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alockintime/4206445992/" title="ww by windrider86, on Flickr">

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[windrider86]

Where is everyone?

Ok, herre's my whirl at it. First thing was first. Cropped it down to bring more attention to the mountain tops. Next I used an adjustment channel level. Brought the red and green channels all the way to the right and the blue all the way to the left. This wasnt the effect I wanted so I brought the green channel back to about half way which gave me nice contrast and intense skies.
Noise removal and a strong sharpening layer.
Duplicate layer gave it an infrared effect and erased areas I didnt want so bright, and here you have it:

[Marija]

Steps I took :
- cropped the dry tree on the left and bottom part of the photo
- get rid of branches with clone and smudge tool
- contrast and brightness adjustment
- duplicate background
- on duplicated layer: colors, value invert; layer mode-overlay; opacity about 80
- flatten image

[windrider86]

I like what you did!

[douglas]

I kind of got lost as exactly what I did!



But...
Cropped out the dead tree on the left
Changed the colour balance to give a sort of reddish, just before sunset look(!)
Altered the brightness and contrast "for my eye"
Added a low opacityy blend top to bottom, pink to white and other things (I think)

[Vail Marston]

I decided to try to focus on the distant mountains and sky.

In Paint Shop Pro:

• Cropped the image to the mountains framed by trees on either side.
• Adjusted color balance to bring out a little more blue.
• Duplicated the image on a new layer, applied the Black & White Film effect with 100% red filter to bring out the cloud detail. Set this layer to Luminance.
• Added a Levels adjustment layer to refine the contrast.
• Added a border.

[Marija]

Originally Posted by windrider86

I like what you did!

Oh, it's good to hear that, since this is the first time I dared to try in What Would You Do?

[monday]

Hello, I would first like to say that everyone has some nice unique ideas. I like how you didnt crop out the tree like we did Marija. Your edit is awesome. Here is what I did....

Open w. Camera Raw in CS4
Adjusted Clarity to make mountains "pop" a little more.
Desaturated Image
Open original Image and place on top of edit
Add mask and fill black
Take white brush and "paint" on mask over trees to give a little more contrast/color.
Opacity around 50-60%
Open original (or duplicate from beginning) again and place on top
Layer style > soft light > opacity 20%
Used to add a little more to shadows

Just messing around. I need to do more of these for inspiration. Thanks!

[NZMXr]

After learning how to use the art history brush last week this picture was perfect to use this effect



So not many steps to tell you just trial and error with art history brush in CS3 until I got enough detail but without making photo look just like a blurry photo

[windrider86]

Some really great edits this week. Are you up for another challenge? See whats posted this week!