What Would You Do (#33)

[Nicole]

Well, look at that, I'm actually on time posting the thread this week! And it's time for another plea for images if you'd like these threads to keep going. I know we've had some very challenging pictures over the last few weeks, but I'm always impressed with what people can come up with. So, if you want to keep the game going, PM me with a link to the medium and large version of the picture (or even just medium if that's all you have).

Now, on to the fun part. This week's picture is from Teewinot.



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The rules are simple. Use the image given here, edit it, change it, fix it, do something creative or something simple, basically, just show us something that you would do with the image. Then come back and post your results along with a description of what you've done to get there. See? Easy as that. Now, let's see what you would do!

[jujitsu1]

cloned both the fish and the shadow
fish.jpg

hope this works

[FocalFrenzy]

First I opened the image in "PhotoExplosion", then I cloned and flipped the fish and shadow. Then I "Rippled" the image and converted it to watercolor painting. A little bit of cropping, and there you are. Underwater abstract. I liked how the woodgrain resembled the ocean floor.

[laepelba]

I like the shot as is. If I were going to play with it, I would probably merely crop it in to simplify the composition.

FishShadow_crop.jpg

[laepelba]

(By the way - can someone please tell me why these shots come in as thumbnails??)

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by laepelba

(By the way - can someone please tell me why these shots come in as thumbnails??)

When you post them as forum attachments (using the attachment ability in your post) they come up as thumbnails. If you want to post a larger size (Flickr Medium size), Flickr is great and they offer free accounts that let you view your 200 most recent photos.

[ike]

Basically what i did:

1. Selected The Colourful Fish
2. Copied, Transformed Fish
3. Added 'Aquarium' Background
4. Lightened Fish Layer To Blend More
5. Saved As Jpg

ike,

[Nicole]

lol that's what I was gonna do ike Now I'll have to think of something else

[ike]

Originally Posted by Nicole

lol that's what I was gonna do ike Now I'll have to think of something else

Great minds and all of that Nicole,

Originally i didn't have a plan, then this just kind of turned out, must sleep instead of being on the computer all night though, but the problem with that is missing the wonderful posts everyone has to offer,

ike,

[jiminyClickit]

A guppy who feels like the big fish in the pond: so tempting to put in a shark shadow.
The little shadow suggested some sort of poster, to illustrate a human characteristic.

Keeping it simple:

-Crop to a square, setting things near the "thirds"
-Flip horizontally, because for this, it's better
-Select little shadow; copy, paste, enlarge, position, lighten
-Clone little shadow away using surrounding woodgrain
-Lighten everything, contrast a little.
-Add text