Post Processing Challenge November 16, 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.

 

Looking across Lake Temiskaming at Haileybury Ontario Canada. The town was burnt to the ground 97 years ago.

Great Fire of 1922 - Wikipedia

Nice image, Punta. Cropped in LR and added Tonal Contrast in NIK

(1) In PSE15, I cropped from top and bottom to change the crop. Then I used a pastel filter in Color Efex. Using the hue/saturaion slider in PSE, I modified the color palette slightly, and then used its sharpening tool;

 

 

(2) Sane first step as in (1). Then, I used a film noir preset in Silver Efex, followed by an inversion in PSE.

 

 

My hope was create interest in all the many horizontal levels in the photo. To enhance resolution, I uprezzed the photo using Topaz Gigapixel AI x 6 and then reduced the size to our normal in PS. I sent it to SNS-HDR for a night-ish enhancement. Next I modified colors slightly in 3d Lut Creator and then sent it back to PS and LR for cropping and a lot of dodging and burning via brush and gradients. Edited November 17, 2019 by tom_r

I made various adjustments in Photoshop CS5 using NIK ColorEfex filter, then transformed the result with Topaz Simplify to give it a painterly look.

Two templates from Smart Photo Editor.

Ok, nothing in this abstract sketch makes sense, but I sort of like it. It started as a pencil sketch in Dynamic Auto Painter, then in PS I created a sun, added a few overlays on top with reduced opacity and finished with contrast and saturation adjustments.