December shot

[Marko]

Anyone want to volunteer their shot for December's post processing assignment?

thx
Marko

[PaulaLynn]

Remind me what this is exactly again please?

[Marko]

We all try to 'fix' a particular member's image and we say how we do it.

thx
M

[PaulaLynn]

Feel free to use mine :)

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[Marko]

I've tried to make some quick edits but the pic is a bit small filesize-wise so there's lots of artifacts.
Any chance you can upload something closer to 140k? I'd be happy to help if you need it.

thx
Marko

[slightlyimperfect]

Well if no one else has any to fix, heaven knows I have a whole computer full of them :)
Well the obvious is that this picture needs some work...if you would like, process away :)

Robin

[Marko]

This is already a very good shot!
BUT THERE ARE TONS AND TONS of possibilities here.

her's just 1 possibility - took me about 5 min. I cropped - played with levels - dodged and burned a touch - sharpened a touch.

[mindforge]

For this one, I created an HDR image and tone-mapped the image. I was trying to cool it off and give it the feeling of an impending storm. I liked the previous crop so I went with that. I just created the HDR using three images that were altered by 2 steps in brightness only.

[slightlyimperfect]

Wow both of those are really good!

I like how the second one makes it look like its about to storm, the black border really makes it pop.

The first edited one I like, because it was most true to life and the colors are right on.

Thanks
Robin

[mindforge]

Ok. Lots of color changes, sharpening and hand smoothing. Purposely looks waxy and digital. I wanted to remove the hair texture at the top of the forehead but it looked really weird like that.

[PaulaLynn]

Wow! Green Contacts here I come! LOL ;)

[tomorrowstreasures]

The two landscape trials are very nicely done! Of course so was the original! :)

[Marko]

Mindforge - both edits are well done but the HDR is excellent.
My next podcast is an HDR one. Any chance you could describe what you did here in a bit of detail? Many thanks!
Marko

[mindforge]

Yeah. Let me do one and track every action that I keep. Alot of the time I play around.. hit undo.. play around.. hit undo... until I get something I like. I generally know the direction I want to go but I will do another of the same image and track every step.

How much time do I have? I am right in the middle of an art project for my graduate degree.

[tomorrowstreasures]

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1. Corel Painter Essentials 4
2. Impressionist setting
3. Corel PSP2X
4. Image>frame>lavender matte
5. Infranview resize resample 700pixels

Time spent - roughly 10 minutes
I chose to do this alternative format due to the out of focus eyes and over exposure on the (viewer's right) cheek.
I love the softness it lends to this already beautiful gal!

[Marko]

Yeah. Let me do one and track every action that I keep. Alot of the time I play around.. hit undo.. play around.. hit undo... until I get something I like. I generally know the direction I want to go but I will do another of the same image and track every step.

How much time do I have? I am right in the middle of an art project for my graduate degree.

If it's killer hard no worries. The hdr podcast will likely come out this week (hoping for thursday) so If I have something by tues or wed, I can include it.

thx!
Marko

[EJC]

Hi folks, I'm having trouble making this scene pop. It was very overcast and wet snow was falling. What would you do?

cheeers
EJC

[tomorrowstreasures]

maybe convert to B/w and then amp up the contrast a wee bit - or push in curves.