Here is a new challenge to practice basic processing skills for your digital photos. A photo is provided and you have a total of five processing steps (i.e. crop, contrast, saturation, clone, etc.) to put your own touch on it. Please list the steps you used. A group of winners will be picked on Friday, May 18th and up for voting. The winner will then post the next photo.
Straightened
Cropped (only slightly to get rid of the odd corners due to straightening)
Colour balance
Hue (selectively adjusted yellow)
Curves for detail
1. highlight/shadows adjustment
2. gradient map (green/white) in "soft light"
3. high pass (0,3 radius) layer in "liniar light" 50% Fill
4. sepia (ish)
5. Soft light layer with gradients set at 13% Fill
I'm having trouble saving this in any sort of size I can work with...I am downloading the largest size but it is still only 72kb same as if I right click and save as... what am I doing wrong?
About a month ago I must have been bored and started fiddling with PS's color profiles.. then completely forgot about it. Today, while uploading this pic, I realized the uploaded version had nothing to do with my edit ! D'OH !
Should I upload all of them again with the correct converted colors and will I lose all comments /etc. if I do ? Booohoooohoooo :'(
@smithak thank you so much! I don't usually do any editing on my pix but i like to play around with these easy edits that can give a photo a whole new feel!
@brumbe
"I feel so left behind on the wwyd, that I figured that this would be a bit more user friendly. "
This is a great new concept Paula. I have loved reading the 5 steps used for each entry, and think this challenge is a really helpful way of learning new processing ideas and workflow. It is interesting to see how different everyone's approach is.
Comparing (?ranking) different types of edits is not going to be easy for you!
@ltodd exactly. I think I was in the top five for the WWYD 4 and that was the last time I ever came close. I think it went in a direction I could not even imagine catching up with.
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- Saturation
- Unsharpen mask
- Tint
- Highlights
- Hue
~clarify
~unsharp mask
~saturation
~burn
~dodge
skylight filter
pro contrast
reflector effects
tonal contrast
hue/saturation
Highlights
Hue/saturation
Brightness/contrast
Spot healing
Straightened
Cropped (only slightly to get rid of the odd corners due to straightening)
Colour balance
Hue (selectively adjusted yellow)
Curves for detail
1. highlight/shadows adjustment
2. gradient map (green/white) in "soft light"
3. high pass (0,3 radius) layer in "liniar light" 50% Fill
4. sepia (ish)
5. Soft light layer with gradients set at 13% Fill
crop
boost colour
saturation
contrast
slightly blue temp to reflect the sky.
Curves
Hue/Saturation
Unsharp Mask
Crop
levels
curves
colour balance on sky and water (blue)
clone tool
crop
What do you think? I'm not sure about it. A bit too dark?
1. Clone (A few bushes added to soften the edges :)
2. Brightness
3. Clarity
4. Intensity
5. Saturation
I hdr'd it
crop
adjusted exposure
saturation
framed it
Crop
Boost
HDR
Boost
HDR
desaturate
invert
hue
contrast
unsharp mask
curves
blur
gradient mask
blending mode
About a month ago I must have been bored and started fiddling with PS's color profiles.. then completely forgot about it. Today, while uploading this pic, I realized the uploaded version had nothing to do with my edit ! D'OH !
Should I upload all of them again with the correct converted colors and will I lose all comments /etc. if I do ? Booohoooohoooo :'(
The vertical lines in the center caught my eye, so I did some serious cropping.
crop
increase brightness
increase saturation
increase contrast
adjust hue
This picture looked ike some city that spiderman would crawl around in..so here is my 5 step challenge.
Saturation
HDRish
Sharpen
1960s
Comic
B & W
Burn
Dodge
Rotate
Clone
sat
crop
cont
tint
shadows
Adjusted keystoning so buildings aren't tilted in toward each other.
White control point.
Noise reduction.
Midtones.
Warmth/saturation.
edits from picmonkey.com:
*sepia
*"smudge"
*"cinerama"
*photo corners
*added text
"I feel so left behind on the wwyd, that I figured that this would be a bit more user friendly. "
This is a great new concept Paula. I have loved reading the 5 steps used for each entry, and think this challenge is a really helpful way of learning new processing ideas and workflow. It is interesting to see how different everyone's approach is.
Comparing (?ranking) different types of edits is not going to be easy for you!