What, if anything, would you do to this photo?

06/07/2005 10:37:44 AM · #1

besides throw it away...

moodville

Nikon D100

06/07/2005 10:44:37 AM · #2

You sure throwing it away isnt an option? Drat! :P

Maybe clone out the light reflection - but depends on how it looked after editing. Pump up the contrast and saturation significantly. Possibly a soft blended gaussian blur layer. Only real way to know is to play lots and see what worked best.

kyebosh

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF 80-200mm f/2.8L

06/07/2005 10:48:35 AM · #3

yeah more contrast and way more Saturization. Top it off with a bunch of neat image and it'll have a cool effect.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

06/07/2005 10:50:14 AM · #4

Of all the shots I took this is the one the person wants as a print. It was shot into the center of a glass ball about the size of a softball.

glad2badad

Apple iPhone 16 Pro

Lensbaby Sweet 35 Optic

06/07/2005 11:00:58 AM · #5

Isn't that hot spot in the center cause some problems with printing?

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

06/07/2005 11:05:30 AM · #6

Crop it, clone work on center and right diagonal/reflection, hur/saturation, do a gothic glow layer and fade it as a saturation overlay:

Robt.

If you like this, I can do it on the original and make a print file for you if you don't have time to organize it on your own...

Message edited by author 2005-06-07 11:05:56.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

06/07/2005 11:19:21 AM · #7

Originally posted by bear_music:

If you like this, I can do it on the original and make a print file for you if you don't have time to organize it on your own...

I do like, thanks for the offer, I have the time. Nice work! My cloning didn't come out as neat or maybe it was the area I used as the clone source. I played around with a few layers for different effects but I like your idea.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

06/07/2005 11:30:35 AM · #8

Originally posted by Alienyst:

Originally posted by bear_music:

If you like this, I can do it on the original and make a print file for you if you don't have time to organize it on your own...

I do like, thanks for the offer, I have the time. Nice work! My cloning didn't come out as neat or maybe it was the area I used as the clone source. I played around with a few layers for different effects but I like your idea.

Go for it then! Most of the clone work is with the healing brush. In the central area I did a regular clone at 75% opacity then worked it over again with healing brush to smooth it out.

Robt.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

06/07/2005 11:52:40 AM · #9

I believe in PI the Touch up brush is the same as PS's healing brush. Anyway that is what I used for the cloning to get rid of the glare/reflection. The stem I used a clone paintbrush - not happy with this little bit. Bumped up the saturation but left hue alone. Then dampened the whole image. Our crops are slightly different, but side by side they don't look too bad when opening up each in a tab and flipping between tabs. But the difference from the original is vast. Now I just need to do this on the original file.

Thanks for the suggestions all!

Message edited by author 2005-06-07 11:58:51.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

06/07/2005 12:00:32 PM · #10

That's nice. Interesting to compare the two versions, mine & yours. In mine, the central spot has become a "hole", a deep spot, bracketed by color, drawing you in. In yours it's more of a "protrusion", a color thrusting up. On mine the diagonal "stem" is more luminous, in yours the little motion blur things are left in and domeinate that area.

Do you have Feivel's Gothic Glow? Did you use it?

Ain't photoshop fun?

Robt.

I see you added to your post, and if yer not in PS the you don't have Gothic Glow, so that answers that question :-)

Message edited by author 2005-06-07 12:01:31.

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

06/07/2005 12:26:56 PM · #11

Correct - no gothic glow. Layers in PI are different too. To add a layer I need to add an object, to do this I add an object to get the layer, work on the entire layer, then make the object transparent to keep the layer but ditch the object or put the object in an area I am going to crop out anyway. I thought the dampening did about the same thing though (I am at the office and my PI install here is not complete - I have no plugins.) When I work on the original I will get the stem part better. But if you notice there is a streakyness in that area of the pic that extends towards the top center. I tried to keep that in since it is on both sides of the reflection that was removed. The bright spot in the middle is actually the sun. These balls hang in a living room window. This particular shot is from underneath one at say 7 o'clock shooting up towards 2 o'clock.

Message edited by author 2005-06-07 12:30:43.

SDW

Canon EOS-60D

06/07/2005 01:25:49 PM · #12

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

06/07/2005 01:34:54 PM · #13

SDW - I really like the cloning/touch up work. Not sure about the frame though.

Artan

Canon Digital IXUS v3

06/07/2005 01:36:21 PM · #14