Postprocessing Challenge 10 August 2018

By now, everyone should know about the guidelines for this forum. If not, the most important one is to recite the steps you took in preparing your respective versions.

By now, everyone should know about the guidelines for this forum. If not, the most important one is to recite the steps you took in preparing your respective versions.[ATTACH=full]1257199[/ATTACH]

Thanks to Michael for posting this weeks challenge.

Thanks to Michael for posting this weeks challenge.

 

Unnecessary, GC. I'm glad to be able to do my part to keep this forum going.

I took a selection and turned it into an oil pastel using Smart Photo Editor. Before, I did adjustments in LR and DXO Viewpoint for perspective and color. It looks a little like a bookcase.

Cropping, straightening, sharpening, saturating, etc.

Edited August 11, 2018 by Sandy Vongries

Hotel Galactica

Continuing GC's experiments from last week with "little planet" stereographic projections. I combined a photo of the night sky with the top floor of the building. I used the night sky for both the sky and the foreground and added a figure on the balcony.

Edited August 11, 2018 by Glenn McCreery

Michael thank you so much for this image. I like the image very muck and I thought I would try to worm it up.

I pasted the image into Gimp and created two new layers. The top layer I desaturated and inverted the colors and used a Gaussian Blur tool value 35 then changed the layer mode to overlay. That brightened the image very well. I then created some luminosity mask in channels. I created a new image layer and applied a mid tone luminosity mask then used the curves tool to in cress the contrast. I then created a new worm yellow color layer and changed its mode to overlay and reduced the opacity to about 35%. Then I used the Color Balance tool to increase the blue in the shadows.

LR to adjust shadows / highlights and crop. NIK's Color Efex Pro 4 for Detail Extractor. PSE for Cutout filter and frame.

Michael thanks again for the challenge. All adjustments in Lightroom, cropped to the centre area. Carried out basic adjustments exposure, highlights and shadows. Using Radial Filter Tool selected the centre balcony row and lowered sharpness and Clarity to the remainder. Boosted selective colour saturation, played with white and black point. A final tweak to the contrast slider and decided to stop.

What the picture needed was some people but I wasn't up to that challenge.

 

Edited August 11, 2018 by Gerald Cafferty

Initially, in PSE15, slight bit of leveling horizon and cropped to eliminate the odd structural elements along the bottom and the right side; and also cropped to eliminate some excess headroom. Then decided to just have some fun. Used an infrared filter in Color Efex to tone the entire image, then back to PSE to adjust tonal levels. Sharpened in PSE15 and also used Output Sharpener.

The longer I experiment, the more over the top it gets. Oh well, here is my dystopian, apocalyptic, globally-warmed world.

 

Abstract - cropped down, adjusted levels and saturation, copied to a new layer and selectively erased horizontal bands at different transparency levels. Rotated a new layer copy, split it in half and shifted it to the LHS, made a new copy and flipped it 180 degrees and moved it to the RHS, merged down and then sheared the image to the left and rotated the final image 90 degrees and cropped again. I think, anyway.

Expired film stock ;)