mikep Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 correct perspective with transform skew / clone right one third to left / transform layer flip horiz / eliminate people with cloning and selective copy of areas / convert to b&w / add hue of brown with saturation / minor cloning clean up at high mag / adjust levels.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikep Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Same with Bride and Groom :) correct perspective with transform skew / clone right one third to left / transform layer flip horiz / eliminate people with cloning and selective copy of areas / convert to b&w / add hue of brown with saturation / minor cloning clean up at high mag / adjust levels. Add people from original with laso/path/select feather 1/color correct/center.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedding-photography-denver Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 1, new layer 2, enlarge canvas on background layer 3, select and rotate parts of the statue then recreate the arched top (kinda) to raise the frame size. 4, clone some of the window 5, correct the perspective a little 6, burn/dodge 7, sharpen. Not a great deal of change, just doing some aesthetic alterations to the orig.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Purpose: to create a soft romantic church altar portrait: 1. Crop to 4x5/8x10 dimensions and straighten a bit leaving only one lamp. Two lamps are distracting. 2. Correct perspective (keystoning): Filter>distort>lens correction>remove distortion. 3. Vignette: Filter>distort>vignette to amount -150 and midpoint +20. 4. Soften/Glow: Ctrl-J (in PC), Filter>Gaussen Blur>Radius 20 pixels 5. Click Opacity in Layers box and slide to 30%. 6. Increase contrast: Image>adjustment>brightness/contrast>contrast to +30. 7. Sharpen: Filter>sharpen>smart sharpen to +50. 8. Burning: use burning tool to do selective darkening on back rail and hotspots in background.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil_ewins Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Golden Light 1 The image had a new layer and the background painted out using a soft brush in black. 2 saturation tool used to increase saturation of windows 3 new layer and low opacity brush used to paint in the window light cast 4 original image adjusted using curves and color balance<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_s. Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Some of you guys had already done something similar what I was planning but what to do? Anyway, these were the steps: 1. Rotate and remove barrel distortion with filter>distort>lens correction. 2. Fix perspective and make everything straight by select>all and edit>transform>distort. (More powerful than using the lens correction for this.) 3. Adjust overall white balance by eyedropping the dress. Could be done with curves but I used the free whibal plugin (Power Retouche White Balance). 4. Adjust the background white balance with image>adjustments>color balance. The key here is to adjust shadows heavily, midtones mild and not touch highlights. This usually works better than trying to do selective correction using masks. 5. Crop the image. 6. Add light beams by painting on a new layer, blur the edges and adjust transparency. 7. Fixed the beams by adding a layer mask and removing the beams from the couples to give a more realistic 3d appearence. 8. Adjusted exposure, contrast and saturation. 9. Dodging and burning the windows and part of the backgound by painting on a layer set to soft light and put gaussian blur on it. Set layer opacity to taste. 10. Added a vignette to the couple to make the background even darker. 11. Apply a mild unsharp mask to the entire image. 12. Resize to 500 pixels wide and selective sharpening on the couple using quick mask and usm. 13. Had decided not to do any cloning on this one because I did a lot of that on the first ps challenge. Anyway I couldn't help myself and removed one of the candle lights... 14. Save and done.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_s. Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 I just had to do a b&w version too and it was the same as the above but before resizing and final sharpening i did: 1. Convert to B&W using image>adjustments>channel mixer (70/20/10) 2. Adjust contrast and exposure with curves. 3. Add selective diffusion by blurring on a layer and adjusting opacity to taste. 4. Add color cast to shadow and midtones.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikep Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 correct perspective with transform skew / clone right one third to left / transform layer flip horiz / eliminate people with cloning and selective copy of areas / convert to b&w / add hue of brown with saturation / minor cloning clean up at high mag / adjust levels find white choc image of B&G/select area with selection tool/insert on original/flip/change flower to correct lapel/adjust size with transform/flatten/sharpen/eat<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikep Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 sorry, forgot to resize correct perspective with transform skew / clone right one third to left / transform layer flip horiz / eliminate people with cloning and selective copy of areas / convert to b&w / add hue of brown with saturation / minor cloning clean up at high mag / adjust levels find white choc image of B&G/select area with selection tool/insert on original/flip/change flower to correct lapel/adjust size with transform/flatten/sharpen/eat<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikep Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 sorry Mary. Please delete last two entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cariad Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Peter GREAT Image after the fix..........beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert x Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 you guys are too good - how can i compete with such artistry ? steps:- cut and paste eraser to clean edges flatten image save for web.... i need your votes. for humanity's sake.... RX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert x Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 you guys are too good - how can i compete with such artistry ? steps:- cut and paste eraser to clean edges flatten image save for web.... i need your vote for humanity's sake.... RX<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen dohring Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Well Robert at least you pasted it over someone with a shadow on the sand (unless you addded that and skipped the step). Some of the other cut and pastes just horrify me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 When, where, and how do we vote? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kari douma Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I was just coming here to ask the same question Todd! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ni_gentry Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I think the contests where people submit their own favorite images are better. Not that this isn't cool. It just gets kind of boring looking at the same image 50 times. Maybe I'm just not a fan of Photoshop manipulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_baker8 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 No voting for yourselves either! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_s. Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I like these things, it's a good learning opportunity and post processing is as important as one want it to be. Looking trough every image it's also interesting to see what choices have been made since everybody had the same starting point. Also the actual steps involved as I picked up a few tricks by checking out what other people do. Voting would be done by dropping Mary Ball an email with your vote. But I assume she would be the one initiating the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanie1 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Alright, maybe too late but figured I'd give it a shot! Steps - straighten - crop - duplicate layer - use channel mixer to turn bottom layer to greyscale - set color layer to 'color' mode - add vignette - dodge around candles and backdrop - add brightness/contrast layer above photo layers - bump up brightness and contrast - mask out the bride and groom, leaving the dress out to retain detail And that's it! All in all not too much work, would have done more crazy stuff, but a lot of stuff won't show up in an image this small.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carla_mccarthick1 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 This is really fun, I got a kick out of some of these. Anyways I am pretty new to participating here so I thought I would give this a try. Adjusted levels, increased saturation and contrast. used sponge tool, burn and dodge....decided to crop....burn more areas to take away the more distracting items. Adjusted color balance, removed yellow and red. added border.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conraderb Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 wow. I don't mean to be a downer, but based on the entries here, I'm not quite so bummed that I'm not a PS expert like some of the other people here. like the other PS competitions, there isn't one of these images that I think is any better than the original :-( too many special effects and vignettes and soft blurs :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledebbie58 Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 1. cropped down to 8X10 size 2. added Hue/Saturation layer 3. desaturation to BW 4. masked color of flowers 5. added diffuse glow to layer 6. cloned out alter candles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledebbie58 Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 opps did that wrong here is my contribution to above steps....<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think27 Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 PETER SEINHOFF - Not only won the last competition and submitted the image for this week's fix.. He also won. We seem to get more participants than we get voters... We only had 12 people who actually sent the vote in to me this week. ;-( Paul Sokal was runner up. I'm off on vacation until the 18th and when I get back I may be working on a mini lesson presented by a pretty talented and famous photographer which will be the new "stickie" at the top of the Wedding Forum. Cheers..<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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