Weekly Post Processing Challenge September 21, 2018

 

This weeks PPC photo is of The Spud Drive-in Movie Theatre in Driggs, Idaho (closed for the season).

A local landmark, a photo of it once appeared in National Geographic magazine.

Be as creative with it as you wish.

Edited September 21, 2018 by Glenn McCreery

A nice image, Glen. Used LR to adjust shadows / highlights. NIK's Efex Pro 2 for a Yellow filter.

Hmm... I just noticed what

looks like a potato sitting

in the truck...

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Great observation for an ape!. Yes, a small spud in the truck and a huge one in the bed. Edited September 21, 2018 by Glenn McCreery

Glenn this is a great image you have a good eye. I like the potato head peaking out of the window. Thank you for supplying the image this week.

I used Gimp. First I cloned out some vegetation growing up from below the frame. Then I used the curve tool to add some contrast. Next I made luminosity and used the to do some selective color shifting. Not too much I hope. Then I added closed text. Last I played with truck side bored with SPUD DRIVEN trying to increase the contrast and saturation.

Thanks for the interesting image, Glenn. I prepared 3 versions. The first involved initially using PSE15 to adjust tonalities using levels and then to add saturation in certain areas and partially desaturate in others using the sponge tool. I sharpened using the NIK Output Sharpener, and did some fine tuning by means of the sharpening tool in PSE.

 

The second version involved converting in b&w using Silver Efex. I then adjust the tonality using levels in PSE.

 

Finally, the third is a semi-realistic abstract. I used the cutout filter and then the solarization filter, followed by levels adjustments, in PSE.

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Abstract version, PSE 14, usual adjustments then in gradient map metals filter applied.

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Ken, even if your name did not accompany your version, I would recognize the style immediately.

Ken, even if your name did not accompany your version, I would recognize the style immediately.

Michael we do seem to appreciate each others work, which is nice.

Ok, I really liked the sign on the back of the old movie screen. How could I not-- hamburgers, potatoes, dense pine forest, awesome snowcapped mountains and even a snow-covered sasquatch cleverly placed to look like part of the mountain. To preserve this cool sign I converted it into a license plate that I'm sure "Scenic Idaho" will want to adopt. Haha. I used a few programs and learned some new stuff along the way. Gracias, Topaz AI Gigapixel, Lightroom, DXO Viewpoint, Photoshop, a bolt I stole off the internet, Smart Photo Editor for the cracks and Alien Skin Eye Candy for the rust. I learned (or probably re-learned) how to expand the image dimensions using the crop tool to get a little extra canvas for my license plate holder, and used Photoshop's Clone Source Panel for the first time ever to rotate one of bolts so its slot was at a different angle. I never get to do this kind of stuff with family photos! Thanks for the practice.

 

Thanks for the image Glenn. All adjustments in LR 5.71. Cropped in on the truck and then did some basic exposure, white point and black point. Converted to B&W, used red channel slider to lighten the cab. Decided on a split tone, yellow for the highlights and blue for the shadows. Readjusted the white point to make the snow white again.

Tom -great catch spotting sasquatch! Even the great ape missed that one, probably because it was not food related. Somewhat embarassingly, I have never noticed the sign details, except for the "Famous Hamburgers", despite driving past the theatre about once a week.

 

My approach was to expand the image vertically and then substitute clouds and some distant mountains for the blank foggy sky. Selecting the sky was the hard part. I thought that using "select color range" in Photoshop would work, but the sky and snow tonal ranges overlap in the original image. So, I used Topaz Remask 5 to carefully select everything but the sky. I then copied the result and pasted it over a photo of the mountains behind the theatre with thin clouds above. The orientation of the mountains and the theatre are only approximate.

Tom -great catch spotting sasquatch! Even the great ape missed that one, probably because it was not food related....

 

Hmm... yep, pass me some

more bananas...

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Experimenting with trials of Alien Skin's Exposure x4 and Snap Art.