Gerald Cafferty Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Another weekly challenge. If anyone else would like to post next week please give it a go, upload a High resolution jpeg. Just indicate by Wednesday next in this thread if you are willing to try. Remember there are no rules you can do what you wish in your interpretation, please can you give information of the steps taken and software used to add interest. It is not meant as a competition just a bit of fun. Here we have a flat image in need of help. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 LR...adjust shadows / highlights, straighten buildings, and crop. Define2...noise reduction. NIK...Detail Extractor and Tonal Contrast. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Started with PSE15 - straightened, horizontally rotated. Then, Color Efex - vintage film preset #1. Then, water paper sketch filter, boosted saturation and sharpness in PSE15. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norma Desmond Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Perspective adjustment, color gradient, levels adjustment. 2 We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Perspective corrections, replaced sky, sharpened and added a distortion/frame edge filter. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Ratcliffe Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) Image removed Edited February 17, 2018 by Ken Ratcliffe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 Started with PSE15 - straightened, horizontally rotated. Then, Color Efex - vintage film preset #1. Then, water paper sketch filter, boosted saturation and sharpness in PSE15. [ATTACH=full]1232894[/ATTACH] Hi Michael, I know this location very well and I'm surprised how unsettling it is seeing it flipped. Your treatment works well and as with all the others has made an improvement to the original. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Ratcliffe Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 PSE 14, crop, adjust levels, light, contrast, add saturation (slide film), add artistic filter, straighten buildings and add colour to sky.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Gerald Cafferty said: "Here we have a flat image in need of help." Really? Looks fine to me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I started by selecting lighter colors and replacing with brighter colors. I dodn't like the look, so I converted to black and white in Silver Efex, then applied "oil paint" in PixelBender software in CS5, applied dual toning and vignette in Silver Efex, and finally sharpening in Photokit Creative Sharpener (available for free. See Mary Doo's post at Free EXCELLENT PixelGenius Digital Software... ). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 (edited) Second attempt: Embrace the gloom! PS for some adjustments, DXO Viewpoint for straightening, Luminar and Akvis NatureArt for special effects. Edited February 18, 2018 by tom_r 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRCrowe Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Used the de-gloom tool in Lightroom, just kidding, Clarity, Vibrance, Saturation+, used adjustment brush on sky with de-haze. Applied gradient on bottom right - blacks, shadows, saturation. Radial filter on lower left with same adjustments as gradient. Unsharp mask in Photoshop. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share Posted February 18, 2018 Used the de-gloom tool in Lightroom, just kidding, Clarity, Vibrance, Saturation+, used adjustment brush on sky with de-haze. Applied gradient on bottom right - blacks, shadows, saturation. Radial filter on lower left with same adjustments as gradient. Unsharp mask in Photoshop. [ATTACH=full]1233168[/ATTACH] The de-gloom tool worked a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecaz Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 I didn't think this needed anything funky done to it. It's a very classic image, so I gave it a classic toned B&W treatment. That brought out the texture in the clouds. I also straightened, cropped, and adjusted the exposure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim_Nassar Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 Basic adjustments in LR including sorting verticals. Over to Silver Efex for antique look. Opened in Elements to use Clone tool to remove a few signs of modernity. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmueller Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 GIMP: Perspective distort, crop, select sky (fuzzy select tool), curves on selection, invert selection, curves on new selection, scale image. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Notwithstanding GC's comments on my initial version, here's an abstract (used PSE exclusively). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Gerald, I see from the file info you used a Panasonic LX100. Does having a premaritally attached lens keep the sensor dust free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 Gerald, I see from the file info you used a Panasonic LX100. Does having a premaritally attached lens keep the sensor dust free? Hi Sanford, sensor dust is no longer an issue. The main benefit of not having interchangeable lenses is being able to fit your entire kit in a coat pocket. When I had a Canon DSLR I found myself with five lenses, it is so liberating not carrying excess kit.....................GC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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