Post Processing Challenge August 3, 2019

There are no rules as to how you apply your post processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn.

If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example).

Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations.

A peek at what was in the Sketchbook ...

LR....crop & adjust shadows / highlights. Added Tonal Contrast in NIK[ATTACH=full]1305572[/ATTACH]

Bill, your treatment revealed some very interesting stuff on the bow. It looks like graffiti or perhaps a painted war scene.

Bill, your treatment revealed some very interesting stuff on the bow. It looks like graffiti or perhaps a painted war scene.

Perhaps it's rust?

Perhaps it's rust?

Michael, you missed the innuendo of "it looks like":)

Thanks for posting, Punta! I cloned a few items off the boat, used a smoothing filter followed by a sketch and a hint of watercolor. Further minor adjustments yield, unsurprisingly, a bluish, sketchy version not unlike the attempt I seem to post almost every week. :rolleyes:

Another version.

Your supply of varied images for the PPC is endless, Punta. This one caused me to think for a while before I started preparing my version.

Initially, in PSE15, I used the content aware healing brush to eliminate a few slight distractions. Then, I used levels to create a low key atmosphere and look, followed by slight dodging of areas of the boat.Then. I used several of the paint bucket tools to create texture and finally used the correct camera distortion filter to modify the vertical perspective while trying to keep the boat's horizontals level.

Version 2: After eliminating the minor distractions as mentioned above, I cropped from the top and right. Then I used an artistic filter (paint daubs), followed by selective dodging and burning, color modification, and saturation.

I removed a triangular slice above the center line of the dock, selected the remaining bottom section, copied it to a new file, then inverted and switched left and right of the triangular section and pasted the result on the new file image. The two layers were adjusted separately before flattening and cropping.

Here is a slightly more abstract version. I pasted two copies of the image horizontally, then used the "little planet" approach (reference: How to Make a Little Planet Quickly and Easily in Photoshop), which Gerald Cafferty introduced us to a couple of years ago in this forum. Finished with cropping and Topaz Simplify.

 

Glenn,

Maybe it's because I read too much science fiction plus the fact that it's been Shark Week on Discovery channel, but I'm seeing a steampunk mechanical white shark in a front on attack with jaws wide open! Cool and scary!