THE PP GAME!

Well this one seems to lend itself to a tilt & Shift effect so I thought I'd give it a go.
Seeing as I have never done this before I had to have a quick look on youtube for a tutorial.
It appears there are lots of different ways of doing but I opted for the following as it seemed to be the easiest

Cropped the image
Used the quick mask tool to make a horizontal selection
Filter/blur/lens blur
Increased the saturation and contrast.

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I like that Dale:thumbs:- not really familiar with tilt/shift stuff but looks like it offers a good way to enhance a photo.

I was a bit stuck with this one so not really achieved an image that works but it allowed me to further consolidate some techniques.


Edit30 by Dr_Ozone, on Flickr

Duplicate background
Selected caravan then moved to new layer and then repositioned
Then selected front window then moved to back window just to make the duplicated caravan look slightly different,
Next created a new layer, filled with black then added noise then Gaussian blur then adjustment layer for levels and tweaked to get stars
Created graffiti and then blurred to keep consistency with parts in focus.
Selected everything apart fomr the sky and created adjustment layer for levels to darken slightly. Didn't really work as side of houses are still too bright and really converting it to a night scene is probably not ideal but hey ho:lol:
Opened one of the garage doors by painting black on a new layer
Did a slight crop to tidy up the bottom which I'd messed up by moving the caravan somehow.
 
Congrats Wayne, just back from Fuji conference & Focus, count me out for this one.....got a lot of catching up to do tomorrow.

Joan
 
Closing time late-ish this evening (tuesday UK) some good work so far.
 
Thanks Wayne.

Ok something a bit different this time as we have not had water drops so far. There’s not much going on in this one so it will be interesting to see what people can come up with.

How about Saturday 8pm (ish) for this one.

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Phill will get the ball rolling with this one:

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So I opened in PS, cloned the droplet into a new layer and smoothed out the edges. Then kept duplicating & resizing to make the smaller drops...

I then added cutout filter to posterize, duplicate later and used lighting effects (sphere in the centre, concentration to the big drop and reduced glow going out) and then set the blend mode to soft light.

Eager to see what others do with this unorthodox choice...
 
PS - that was a great idea to give a miniture effect...I looked at that before seeing the original and thought it was a tiny model town!!! Very good but my mind was baffled to come up with anything remotely better...
 
tricky one this
boosted saturation
cropped
sharpened
cloned out some blurry droplets
cloned some better droplets randomly
added some brightness to the reflections in the water
used brush for border, reucing transparency for a second border
finished!

splash.jpg
 
I like that Phil- it almost seems to have a 3D feel to it
 
Flying giraffe said:
tricky one this
boosted saturation
cropped
sharpened
cloned out some blurry droplets
cloned some better droplets randomly
added some brightness to the reflections in the water
used brush for border, reucing transparency for a second border
finished!
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That's a good take Neil- it's a good pic to play with, quite tricky to come up with something
 
And come up with 'something' I did:D


Edit32 by Dr_Ozone, on Flickr

In ACR, adjustment brush for clarity and contrast
In CS5, duplicated background then cloned out any fuzzy droplets
Copied and arranged various existing droplets
Created adjustment layer for hue/saturation and removed saturation to -83
Created adjustment layer for B&W and tweaked a bit
Then added new layer and put some colour into the drops
Created another layer and added some colour to main splash
Had various thoughts next but plucked for lens flare in the end
Sharpened a tad
Job done:)
 
I went for something slightly different, a few versions of threshold blended together.

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Here's mine.

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and layers

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Joan
 

splosh by surfinscottie, on Flickr

Ok .... cropped, removed a couple of splashes and also added a few.
Then ... lots and lots of layers and each time changing the hue and saturation on each one, then used a layer mask to show each layer with there different colour.
Flattened and thats it :thinking:
 
Scottie68 said:
Ok .... cropped, removed a couple of splashes and also added a few.
Then ... lots and lots of layers and each time changing the hue and saturation on each one, then used a layer mask to show each layer with there different colour.
Flattened and thats it :thinking:
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Ah ha- the master shows me how to add colour properly:D

Nice Scott- I definitely should have cropped and enlarged like most did.

Like the colour effect:thumbs:, I shall give it a go with all the layers and see how I get on over the weekend
 
Dr_O said:
I'm always having to google your edits:lol:

Good one Wayne:thumbs:
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Sorry Dr O, I should have explained it properly for people to follow better.
For those who didn't google it.
I used image/ajust/threshold on a few different duplicated layers( I used 3), with different settings to get more of the detail showing in different places. Then used layer masks to hide the bits I didn't want, finally a crop.
 
swanseamale47 said:
Sorry Dr O, I should have explained it properly for people to follow better.
For those who didn't google it.
I used image/ajust/threshold on a few different duplicated layers( I used 3), with different settings to get more of the detail showing in different places. Then used layer masks to hide the bits I didn't want, finally a crop.
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Not a problem at all, thanks for the info Wayne- you know me, always keen to learn. Hadn't come across 'threshold' before so was interesting to understand the effect and how I could perhaps utilise in my pics.

Do you find you use effects like this or even posterise quite regularly or is it quite rare? I guess I am also wondering how I judge when to use these effects- knowing about them clearly helps:lol: but is there a 'this photo has lots of this colour which would be better if I did this' or similar thought process required? I suppose like most things it is down to experience as well.
 
Dr_O said:
Not a problem at all, thanks for the info Wayne- you know me, always keen to learn. Hadn't come across 'threshold' before so was interesting to understand the effect and how I could perhaps utilise in my pics.

Do you find you use effects like this or even posterise quite regularly or is it quite rare? I guess I am also wondering how I judge when to use these effects- knowing about them clearly helps:lol: but is there a 'this photo has lots of this colour which would be better if I did this' or similar thought process required? I suppose like most things it is down to experience as well.
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I don't use it that ofter if I'm honest, sometimes a threshold layer blended with a normal layer will give a good effect, I'll use darken or multiply blend mode on the layer for that. I hardly ever use posterise, if I'm after that sort of "cartoony" effect I'll tend to switch to illustrater and use auto trace and reduce the number of colours in that, I prefere the look but it's just habit I suspect.
 
swanseamale47 said:
I don't use it that ofter if I'm honest, sometimes a threshold layer blended with a normal layer will give a good effect, I'll use darken or multiply blend mode on the layer for that. I hardly ever use posterise, if I'm after that sort of "cartoony" effect I'll tend to switch to illustrater and use auto trace and reduce the number of colours in that, I prefere the look but it's just habit I suspect.
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Thanks for the info Wayne- now off to have a look at illustrator as well:lol:
 
Well this one was a tough one to judge for me as I really like each entry.

But as they say there has to be a winner and this time I’m going to say Phil Young with Scottie68 a very close 2nd and the rest an even closer equal 3rd :)

Here is what I did to it.
From what I remember in Lightroom I adjusted the exposure and colour balance cropped it and cleaned up bit and pieces with the clone tool.
Imported it into Photoshop and I then created a new layer and changed its blend mode to screen then adjusted the opacity of the layer to the required brightness.
Merged the layer down and created a duplicate layer then changed the blend mode to hard light and again adjusted the opacity of the layer. Finally I flattened the image.



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Here's a bash.

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and the layers

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Joan
 
Here's my attempt


DSC_3953 by surfinscottie, on Flickr

Open RAW in camera raw, auto adjusted exposure etc, then opened in CS5

Removed the rear of the deer to the left, applied silver efex antique look layer, then sharpened, but applied a mask to only sharpen the centre. Then finally i added a texture and multiplied the layer .... see below


Photoshop by surfinscottie, on Flickr
 
here`s my effort
sharpened and boosted in raw
cloned antlers qand tree at the top back
spicify filter
finished!

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Heres mine.

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Opened in camera raw for the basic editing (just normal tweeks) then in photoshop I duplicated the layer, set the blend more to overlay and blured it about 50 pixels, this helps boots the contarst and adds the diffuse effect, added a vignette with the lens correction filter, finally selectivly sharpened just the centre a bit.
 
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Some good edits as always folks:thumbs:

I added some clarity in ACR on the antlers
Opened in CS5, then cloned out other deer on left behind the first one
Created adjustment layer for levels and tweaked to bring a bit more contrast and then added adjustments for vibrancy and curves
Added heart on tree with 19% opacity.

Thought what the hell- draw a heart- pen tool did my head in and eventually I had to freehand so you'll forgive the general untidiness but you get the idea:lol:
Created by adding new layer and fill with red then drop opacity and draw heart on layer mask then put opacity back to 100%
Cropped- totally obscures my cloning (which was awesome:D) and not much left of my other tweaks but hey... oh yeah- sharpened a bit at the end and removed heart from tree as now superseded.


Edit34 by Dr_Ozone, on Flickr
 
Heh, heh, Dr O, there's a heart in the custom shape tools that would have saved you doing your head in :)

Joan
 
photoimaging said:
Heh, heh, Dr O, there's a heart in the custom shape tools that would have saved you doing your head in :)

Joan
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Where were you last night when I needed you?:lol:

After a bit of raking around I have found the shapes now thanks:)

I'm assuming new ones can be loaded in/ created and saved?
 
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