Thank you so much Suzanne for hosting the last “What Would You Do?” Challenge - and thanks to everybody who entered/voted in the same challenge. It was very exciting to win- but a bit tricky trying to choose a suitable image for you to work your magic on.
I thought a city scene may give you editing fodder:
The essential details are :
START DATE 7th November
END DATE 30th November (Just by the end of the day wherever you live)
TAG: WWYD176
Voting will take place shortly after the 30 November and will be open for several days.
So here are the rules:
- Save the starting image on your computer. You can just right click on the image and click on "Save image as.." P.S. If you would like the original image in a different size please just follow these directions: Left click on the photo, then find the "Photo Details" section on the right-hand side. Go to sizes and click on view all. You can pick from several sizes. Choose a size and then copy and paste the URL shown to open a new page. The resized photo will open. You can then right click on it to save it.
- Upload the photo, after you have played with it, to one of your albums and tag it WWYD176
- It would be great if you could add your image to this discussion thread to keep the thread alive. Go to your edited photo, click on the arrow by your comment and fav numbers, copy the "embed" code on the left, and paste it here, in the comment box below.
- Multiple entries are very much encouraged!!
N.B. There are no editing rules. Edit the starting image any way you’d like. Produce any image to your liking. If you like produce an abstract or a surreal image or a composite or a double exposure or something which has only a tiny link to the starting image.
No editing software on your computer? No problem – go to a site like Picmonkey and upload/edit your pic for free. You won’t be able to use all the features but there are plenty you will be able to use.
The idea of the WWYD Challenges is to push yourself to try new editing techniques! If you’re just beginning work on tones, colours, lighting and exposure curves, cloning, sharpening and other effects such as distortions, textures and additions to your image. As you get more familiar with all the editing tools you can add things like dodge and burning, layers, masking and different effects. As you push yourself even more move to image extractions and full compositions. Remember to keep pushing and learning, and most of all have fun along the way!
Good luck to everyone and happy editing! Have fun! We’ll look forward to your creations.
Cheers Rob
This is just a quick example to get things started (obviously not part of the judging)
This was formed from the original image by using 3 easy techniques - a "distort" to change the shape, a colour edit and finally a "merge or layer or copy and paste" of two images to re-position the pyramid.
What you do with the original is only limited by your imagination - it can be as complicated or as simple as you wish!.
I hope you have some fun! Cheers Rob
that's very cool rob! can you tell me how to save the original image at a reasonable size? if i right click and save, it always saves it at a few kB and i'd like it larger ... probably operator error as usual :)
@pistache Hi Clare - I'm afraid I don't know how to save it any other way - I usually save and then resize in the editing program. I went back and had a look at the earlier WWYD Challenge write ups and found this : " If you select the “Sizes” under the right-side menu and scroll down to the Original or Large option you can copy and paste to your browser or download." I tried to do this and couldn't find the "Sizes" section on the Right Side Menu! I hope you may have more luck - otherwise we might have to plead for help. :) Cheers Rob
@pistache Click on the photo, then down the right side go to sizes and click on view all. You can pick from several sizes. Copy and paste the URL to the size you want into another page and the photo will open. You can right click to save then.
@homeschoolmom@pistache Thanks Lisa - this all makes sense now - I
just didn't left click on the photo - DUH - miss the first step!! I think I'll edit the post and add these details. These heaps!! :)
@homeschoolmom thanks so much lisa and rob for your help. but even picking the large size makes it come out only at 140 kb. sort of doesn't matter when we're etsooi-ing it about anyway, but i'd just like to start with a larger resolution. am i missing something?!
Here you go, @robz - my little attempt. I was SO frustrated yesterday trying to find out from videos online how to make a composite with Affinity (similar program to Photoshop) but I couldn't make it work. So here is a tweaked image instead!
@pistache Mine was a small version of the picture too. I wondered if it was a failsafe on our photos on here - download them and the quality is reduced. I found that before when I downloaded some photos of my own that I had lost from my computer. Quality was very reduced.
Just another bit of madness (not very good either!) to keep the thread alive. I think everything would have to be better than the way this turned out. WWYD? Don't be shy - have some fun and see what turns up!!
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This was formed from the original image by using 3 easy techniques - a "distort" to change the shape, a colour edit and finally a "merge or layer or copy and paste" of two images to re-position the pyramid.
What you do with the original is only limited by your imagination - it can be as complicated or as simple as you wish!.
I hope you have some fun! Cheers Rob
just didn't left click on the photo - DUH - miss the first step!! I think I'll edit the post and add these details. These heaps!! :)
Sometimes life just hangs you out to dry.....