PuntaColorada Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 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. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Wanted a paint-like effect. Didn't like all the "dead" space, moved boat closer to color & cropped the rest. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Maybe I'll get around to surfacing submarines, water skiers, Hippos and Loch Ness monsters later;). The 'portrait' composition for this type of photo is unusual but in this case very effective IMHO. The canoe gives me the impression of being 'cast adrift' which the portrait perspective emphasizes. I haven't a clue whether whether this 'impression' has any basis in reality but it doesn't really matter. So here are my first two versions: Version 1: - adjust levels - add a HPF to the canoe - resize and move the canoe so that it's more prominent in a (cropped) photo - add a touch of red to the trees in the background to suggest 'late evening' Version two: Based on version 1 (with different resizing) and landscape cropping - 'Adrift' seemed to me the essence of this version Mike 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Ahh! So much to play with here! Couldn’t decide which half to work with, so I did both. Here’s the bottom… In Lightroom: increased white point, decreased highlights, increased shadows, texture, claritycroppedcooled it down slightly to bring out the blueshealed out anything that wasn’t smooth water In Photoshop: I enlarged the canvas (I was expecting to have to stretch part of the water to increase the space below the canoe and to the left of the canoe, but decided to try the context-aware fill while enlarging the canvas, and it worked beautifully) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 And here’s the top part… In Lightroom: a lot of messing with the sliders. All of them.a lot of messing with the HSL panel sliders (saturation and hue). All of those, too.adjustment brushes and gradients to remove detail and contrast in the background, and to reduce texture and sharpness there In Photoshop: cropped out the centerenlarged the canvas to give more foregroundselected the water, and stretched it downward to fill in the enlarged canvas Back in Lightroom: cloning to remove any distracting bright spotsgradient to increase sharpness, contrast, clarity, texture, and decrease black point in foregroundfurther obfuscation of the background In retrospect, I think I need something distinct in the in-focus foreground to draw attention; otherwise my eye goes straight to the out-of-focus background and registers that it's out of focus. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 You did us proud, Punta - again! I started in PSE15 with using the clone stamp tool to move the boat into the darker area of water and toward the left. Then, I did considerable cropping from the bottom, and changed the aspect ratio to landscape. Next, I used the levels sliders to increase the shadow and the highlights, but not the midtones. After slightly modifying the overall hue and boosting saturation moderately, I finished with Output Sharpener. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Hey, Mike, I am eagerly awaiting the various dramas you hopefully will present to us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Ahh! So much to play with here! Couldn’t decide which half to work with Leslie, you made a really effective strategic decision to work with each half. Each image that resulted from this has its own appearance, character, and story. The first is a study in simplicity, while the second is a lesson in color and light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Wanted a paint-like effect. Didn't like all the "dead" space, moved boat closer to color & cropped the rest.[ATTACH=full]1302996[/ATTACH] Rick, you gifted us with an unusual treatment, leading to a mesmerizing abstract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Version II Again, changed copy to landscape in PSE15, then inverted and did some color modification. Next, added some painterly touches and sharpness using the sharpness tool. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Cropped in LR. Used Film Noir filter in Silver Efex Pro 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Rick, you gifted us with an unusual treatment, leading to a mesmerizing abstract. Much obliged for the compliment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Two different "graphic novel" color versions combined. (Definitely forced me to re-learn some Photoshop skills.) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikehegarty01 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Punta very nice image. Thanks for shearing. All work done in GIMP. 1. I cloned out a small black object near the boat. 2. I changed the WB a little to the cool side. 3. I did a small crop of the image to move the boat slightly. 4. I made set of Luminosity mask. 5. I created a layer that I used a green to blue Gradient Map on to add color and contrast to the background. I used the Light 2 Luminosity mask to mask the foreground. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 I transported the Canadian canoe to Wyoming (Leigh Lake in Grand Teton National Park), and added the snorkeler (actually, a selfie taken at Refugio Beach in California) as a reason that the canoe is floating empty. A lot of copying, resizing, pasting, and blending. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Sunken canoe. Same lake as above, but the canoe sank. I used the canoe selection as a layer with mask blend mode "luminance" and opacity about 50% to make the canoe (and beer) half disappear. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 I used the canoe selection as a layer with mask blend mode "luminance" and opacity about 50% to make the canoe (and beer) half disappear. That worked remarkably well, Glenn! Now I'm off to go play with blend modes... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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