michaellinder Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 I guess I'm "it" again. Again, GC's guidelines are still in effect. Have at it! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 LR to adjust shadows / highlights. Silver Efex Pro2 for Yellow Filter 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikehegarty01 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Great image. I used Gimp. First I rotated the image slightly. Then I played with the perspective some. Then I created a new layer and lightened the overall image. I created a new layer and increased contrast using curves. I created some luminosity mask and used one on the next layer to capture more detail for the tree trunk on the right. This was my first time to replace the sky in an image. I did it by creating a sky layer and applying a luminosity mask to the layer. Then I tweaked the mask using the Threshold tool then a lot of brush work. I thank it turned out ok. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Nice image to work with Michael. Similar to Mike, I rotated the image, then adjusted perspective. I liked the tree, but not the background building, so I cloned foliage and pasted it over the building. Adjusted curves and added a border. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 This was a really good one, Michael—it forced me to get better acquainted with perspective transform in Photoshop. My goal here was to straighten up the house while leaving as much context as I could—that meant I ended up doing a fair bit of cloning around the edges. Lightroom Played with the basics to increase whites, reduce highlights, lighten shadows, increase exposure, increase clarity, and add a bit of dehaze, which I hardly ever do.Removed chromatic aberration (manually, since the auto didn’t quite do it)I wanted a bit more blue in the sky, so I used split toning to add blue to the highlights, and restricted the range to just the brightest highlights. In retrospect, my timing on this was a bad mistake. By the time I realized that I had posterized the sky, I’d been to Photoshop and back, so I couldn’t easily fix it. Photoshop Increased the canvas size to accommodate my planned changesRotated the image to straighten on the porch surface, figuring that was the longest straight line that was reasonably close to eye-levelUsed a perspective transform to straighten up the building a bit. That did a disservice to that admirable tree, so I……used the warp transform to straighten up the tree……which created a bit of collateral damage to what should have been straight lines on the side of the building nearest the tree, so I used the liquify filter to straighten those back up again.I don’t remember exactly, but I think it was somewhere around here that I stretched the frame slightly sideways to restore the building dimensions, which had been changed by the perspective transform.And then came a glorious half hour of cloning things around the edges of the frame where the transforms had left slanted edges. I did a bit of relandscaping, pruning, fence construction, and demolition of buildings on the right and left. I also removed the home security sign in the front yard. Lightroom I did the final crop……and then noticed the darned posterization. I hit the edges with adjustment brushes that lightened, darkened, declarified, increased noise, and unsharpened, and then I did some cloning with low opacity, finally getting it to the point that it’s only really obvious near the lower right tree, where I wanted to preserve the branch structure. Lesson learned.Finally, I painted the columns and trim with an adjustment brush with a slightly bluer white balance to make them contrast a bit more.And then it was 1 am and I went to bed. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 HDR Color filter in Topaz Studio, to Photoshop for DXO Viewpoint, then to SNS-HDR for a tad more grittiness. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 This was a really good one, Michael—it forced me to get better acquainted with perspective transform in Photoshop. My goal here was to straighten up the house while leaving as much context as I could—that meant I ended up doing a fair bit of cloning around the edges. [ATTACH=full]1253790[/ATTACH] Leslie I admire your dedication to the cause. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart_pratt Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Paint shop Pro, perspective correction, Platinum and 'Glamour' filter, vignette. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Good choice Michael. Started in LR used auto straightening, cropped from top and right. With a view towards creating a false Infrared look increased the green luminance. Opened in Silver Efex pro, applied HighKey preset and adjusted sliders to suit my chosen idea. Back into LR, the adjustments so far had introduced a lot of noise. So used LR's noise reduction and then sharpened. Finally reset white and black points. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 I will post a source image for next week, unless someone else would like to have a go. I'm sure Michael would concur in urging others to step forward and post a photo...............GC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 I started in Photoshop Elements (as usual) - used stairs for leveling, used levels to adjust tonality. Then used NIK Output Sharpener and one of Color Efex's infrared film filters to give the house and its surroundings a moody, perhaps frightening, appearance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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