sunil_malkani

OM:.....In PS cc2021; used basic controls for boken effect. Sadhu courtesy of Mahesh Kumar @ Pixabay.com

<p>Thanks Rick, I think you are right. At least I don't need a new monitor.</p>

<p>Igor, could not resist �.<br> Rick have a ? . I see out of gamut color for the dress, edge fringing. Is this intentional, bad profile/upload or my monitor/card/calibration. Thanks</p>

<p>My take: ACR basic processing. In cs6 on separate layer by cut the lady is elevated. Once in place filter transform perspective to angle the legs and warp to drape towards the tree trunk. Noise Sharpen and crop.</p><div></div>

<p>my go at it. ACR basic processing. In CS6 use transform warp to get 2 layers left and right of image, merged both. Topaz labs Simplify 3 Filter sketch color. In CS6 noise and sharpen.</p><div></div>

<p>My take: Basic processing in ACR. In CS6 Nik Color Efex Pro filter graduated fog. Topaz lab: Adjust5: Highlight recovery/Sketch Dark Charcoal. Noise/Sharp crop bottom as there debris in the sand.</p><div></div>

<p>For People still with April snows: my version in Cs6. Basic correction camera Raw. In photoshop on a second layer used adjustments: invert color yellow: layer blending mode Hue default settings. noise/sharpen.</p><div></div>

<p>My Take: What I was shooting for: The main color temps are at two ends of the spectrum basically. Wanted to narrow the lighting on each subject in their own colors.<br> Basic ACR corrections, then used graduated filters roughly one third each vertically to open shadows or reduce exposure, all the relevant sliders were used; so that the two light sources were balanced and narrowed to each subject and complimentary. In cs6 a little clean up with cloning, spot, healing of spots, blemish on the arm below the sleeve, rebuilt the chin as there is a red spot there on the female subject. Noise and sharpening.</p><div></div>

<p>Sorry photo did not upload, will try again</p><div></div>

<p>My take: Basic processing in ACR, graduated filter to darken edges, cropped the south frame border till above the twig. In CS6 use silver efex pro 2 use filter Antique Platinum, noise/sharpen</p>

<p>My version: Basic processing in ACR: cropped right frame, reduce clipping, cloned/heal major blemishes on face/left elbow. Graduated filter vertically over face/torso to balance both sides of the face for light and shadow. Remaining blemishes part of teen life. <br> In cs6; used fill to remove background plastic drop cloth, refine edge, background color chosen so that the bed sheet shadow left to right is noticeable. Nik plug in output sharpen for display, noise filter and unsharpen filter .</p><div></div>

<p>My take: Basic ACR processing and cropped. In CS6 cleaned up leg behind, dirt to remove distractions using content aware, healing, clone, in Nik Color efx used graduated ND. Back in CS6 used posterize.</p><div></div>

<p>Retry again</p><div></div>

<p>For some reason the photo did not upload.</p>

<p>My take: Basic processing in ACR. In CS6 used Nik collections color efx pro plug in with the following filters in order: graduated ND, graduated fog, tonal contrast. Cropped in CS6.</p>

<p>My version: Basic ACR processing with leveling the fence line. In CS6 used Nik collections color efx pro filter solarization default settings, In topaz labs adjust used filter sketch color: default settings, adjusted saturation lower a bit , added border here, used color picker from tree line to the right for border color. Back in CS6 used oil paint to add slight texture for canvas look.</p><div></div>

<p>Similar approach to Glenn's; Basic ACR processing with temp, tint minus values, contrast, highlights clarity vibrancy, saturation with higher values, shadows and black with even higher values. Cropped all sides for tighter subject. Left blur above hand and the wood frame closer to the spindle. In CS6 on rasterized layer isolated hand and desaturated it. Used bright/contrast, noise, unsharp mask filters.</p> <div></div>

<p>My take: Basic processing in ACR and used graduated filter vertically to the left of the smaller tower: exposure, shadows, blacks, contrast, a little saturated to give the effect of darkening sky left to right. Cropped the left frame to remove car, bridge, cropped fore ground to bring the right frame more into play.</p><div></div>

<p>My take: Basic ACR processing with reduced highlights, exposure and increased shadows, contrast. Cropped and straighten so foreground is even to the edges of frame. In cs6 used puppet wrap on two layers to move right frame to left of skylight and on second layer did the same to left side in reverse. Both aligned to the skylight and stool. The two frame shadows in the foreground on the floor cloned and spot healed to soften and blend with floor. Applied noise and unsharpen.</p><div></div>

<p>correction: intended to crop but did not crop, had already cloned out the white spot on top of the gate post as it was distracting in B & W.</p>

<p>My version: basic processing in ACR with little more saturation, used adjustment brush on north outside panel of yellow umbrella to reduce highlights, saturation, exposure to match the other two panels. Opened in CS6 on rasterized layer isolated umbrella and de-saturated the rest. Cloned out background visible people and umbrella behind the yellow one, used noise and unsharpen mask filters ,cropped on the right frame to remove the gate post.</p><div></div>

<p>My take: used ACR for basic processing. In CS6 used fill content aware to remove poles, crop determined the frame size, basic noise and unsharpen filters.</p><div></div>

<p>Supriyo, thanks for the comments, frankly I did not think of that, sounds interesting. Definitely doable, but I am a little pressed for time right now.</p>

<p>Here goes: ACR Basic adjustment, In CS6 used topaz simplify 3 filter cartoon reduced brightness to bring out the bag and hair and reduce contrast the on the face shadow and background to fade a bit. Converted to B&W added photo filter cooling blue 80, unsharpen mask.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks for the clarification</p>