THE PP GAME!

lovely image

lr4 adjusted black, white, lifted shadows and added a grad filter to emphasise the sky.
played with colour sliders in red, yellow and blue to get more sunset.
Topaz warm filter
denoise
crop
15mins feedback ok.

ppgame2.jpg
 
Thanks for the cr2 :)
IMG_5445.jpg


In LR5:
Cropped, increased shadows, contrast
Lowered the highlights
played with the colours
Increased the Temp

Think thats it :) took me about 15min
 


CA correction in DPP
exported 3 exposures as Tiff files before blending together
cloned out red stick thing and patch of lighter grass.
increased saturation
reduced saturation in grass
crop

Happy to hear what you think - 10-15 mins
 

PP Game - Sunset by dTEA Photography, on Flickr

Not been around for the last couple but thought I'd join in again folks.

Crop to emphasize the subject
Quick Grad to boost the sky
Play with the Saturation and Hue sliders to get the sun tones back out.
Fill Light
Sharpened
Exported to CS2 and created 3 copy layers. Desaturated the second and overlayed with Gaussian Blur. The 3rd layer was set to Soft light and Opacity to 30%.
10minutes

Feedback welcomed
 
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Oh! my word you have all been busy I had no idea this image could turn out with so many different looks!
Loving it! :)
As I only posted the raw file today I will pick a winner by lunch time tomorrow if that is ok.
Cathy
 
This was a lot of fun and thank you so much everyone.
Now considering what I gave you to work with the results were fabulous!

I am in no position to tell any of you anything as I am new to all of this but here are my thoughts.


1st Ben
Ben in all honesty this is exactly how the picture did look on the evening. You enhanced the real image from a bad capture taken by me. Well done!

2nd Spooner
This is how I would have wanted the image to look if I had been lucky enough.I loved the colours very well done.

3rd Graham
Graham it was hard to choose between your version and Spooner's as both were excellent. I just preferred the detail and colour of his sky.

Neil - Well done! On my Mac yours looked a little too yellow but I may be wrong,
Smam - Well done! Would have liked the island still to have been there.
dTEA -Well done! Maybe a little too much HDR looking for me.

That being said take a look at my edit and you will see you were all great!

Ben all over to you now!
 
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Turnberry Lighthouse Sunset by cooriedoon, on Flickr


Opened in PS CS 6

Opened up shadows and turned down highlights.
Adjust white and black sliders.
Turned down vibrancy and added clarity.
Lens Correction.
Split Tone Highlights to add warmth.
Added a multiply layer.
Rubbed out foreground to lighten
Sharpened image then removed noise.
Cropped.
 
:clap: Ben you are the winner :thumbs: Good un :thumbs:

Cathy I hope you enjoy taking part & I'm sorry I was not able to get an edit in this round :thumbs:
 
John I did and thank you for showing me this thread. I am going to follow some of the steps taken and hopefully learn from it.

Cathy :)
 
Seajay said:
John I did and thank you for showing me this thread. I am going to follow some of the steps taken and hopefully learn from it.

Cathy :)
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You're welcome & it looks like it will be others that will be learning from you as well :clap:

PS Where's Ben with his piccy - having a long lie in over the weekend :lol:
 
Maybe Ben's waiting for a few more congratulatory words before he graces us with his image... :lol:

Love what you did to the grass on this one, really gave a great draw into the image!
 
cor blimey ben.... you don't make it easy on us do you!!!



Clicking does go to a larger version if you want.

OK - opened in CS2....

upped exposure, brightness, shadows, contrast and saturation...
Duplicated layer, desaturated....
Layer mask and painted back in kitty....
despeckled all except the cat a few times
sharpen with high pass filter
crop
saved
opened in Picasa, applied 1960's filter
opened back in CS2 and masked back out the cat from this filter.....
Large, light vignette, followed by heavier smaller one.

And one other thing... :nuts:
(Achieved by a bit of cloning, text, distort, add noise)

20 mins of my lunchtime.... comments welcome as usual. :thumbs:
 
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You beat me to it with the number plate :)

LR adjusted shadows etc and some sharpening
aggressive nr and sharpening with neat image.
5 mins

cat_filtered.jpg
 
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Wish I knew how to get rid of all the little dots.
Ok here is my try.
PS Levels to lighten
Crop
New copy desaturate background layer
on top layer erase colour not wanted.
Sharpen eyes
Flatten



Ginger by cooriedoon, on Flickr
 
Edit in LR5

IMG_5593-1.jpg


B/W.
Crop.
Fiddle with the basic sliders.
Generous dollop of noise reduction with selective sharpening on the cat's face.
Heavy rounded vignette.
Export.
And I'm a dog person too.
 

Cat by juggler100, on Flickr

RawTherapee:
WB correct & boost exposure
Gimp:
Duplicate layer in overlay mode
Crop
Big old reverse S curve adjustment
Reduce saturation of blue, greens and cyans to almost nothing
Tweak hue of magenta chanel to alter collar colour to fit the palette of the remaining colours
Despeckle and high pass sharpen cat's features & paws
 
Sorry Ben :love: I couldn't resist & sorry Phil (Thread Cop :police: ) but I just can't get any serious inspiration :bang:

Just done as joke & I will remove if anyone offended.

 
Hi Simon.... nice to see it can also be done with free software. Welcome in.. :thumbs:

Neil.. he seems to have outgrown his shadow too... :naughty:

Like it john... good skills there. Normally if I do something like that I'd duplicate all the cats and then decide to do the eyes and have to do them all individually.
 

IMG_5593-2 by btyreman, on Flickr

here's my final edit, it looked a lot better with less noise and sharper in lightroom for some reason...maybe it's something to do with ppi settings?

anyhow...

in LR5;

cropped,
used radial brush on the cat to lighten,
used paint brush set to 'iris enhance' preset on the iris in the eyes,
blacked out the registration using brush tool.

the winner this time is Overbez/graham, I like what you did with the reg and it's well processed,

over to you!
 
:clap: Nice one Graham
 
Thanks Ben. (And Cathy and john).

Thought my lucky streak had ended.. some amazing jobs done on the NR that last round.
Will get the nest one posted up this evening.
 
overbez said:
Thanks Ben. (And Cathy and john).

Thought my lucky streak had ended.. some amazing jobs done on the NR that last round.
Will get the nest one posted up this evening.
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And there's me taking you literally 'nest' when you must of meant next :thinking:
 
Yes john. I did mean next. :lol:

Was on my phone in between work and dashing out.

Its a church on the Thames at Marlow from on the suspension bridge.
 
Open in LR4 basic black white shadow and highlight adjustment.
Adjusted verticals slightly to make arch more upright.
Add some clarity, crop, export as tiff.
Topaz b and w filters to convert
brushed some more detail on church.
Resize and save as jpeg
10 mins.
Feedback preferable.

church.jpg
 
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Edit in LR5:

DSC_6355.jpg


Straighten. B/W.
Fiddle with all the basic sliders.
Then a few gradient filters - one for the sky then some angled ones to the sides including one from below to darken the suspension cables.
Bit of dodge/burn with the adjustment brush.
Split toning with orange and blue shades to add some warmth.
Vignette.
Export.
 
Cracking edits so far...... I'll call this one tomorrow (Tuesday) morning....
 
Just tried my version of Rawtherapee (haven't used it in ages and opened fine.... version 3.0.1.0)...

Also, I just converted it to .dng with Adobe's free DNG converter, and the dng file also opens fine in RT.

DNG version linked below.
http://speedy.sh/AsTGh/DSC-6355.dng

beyond that.... :thinking:
 
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