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07/09/2005 02:14:58 AM · #1 |
I have a picture that I really like. I live out in southwest Kansas and we don't have a lot of water. So, whenever I get a chance to go somewhere where there is water, I try to go take pictures. This picture is from the Kansas City area while visiting my in-laws. I thought that it was a nice picture, but needed some work to make it jump. Here is the original.
Any ideas of what I can do with this to bring out the color in the trees and reflection, but I think the sky and nonreflective water needs to be darkened. Not a master at editing, but I am wanting to learn. Here is an idea I had at least for a crop.
If I can get a nice looking picture, I want to make this a print. I have never done that and would like to try to see what it would look like.
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07/09/2005 02:39:25 AM · #2 |
Here is just a quick one - I didn't do anything aside from the sky really. Didn't mess with the water.
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07/09/2005 02:59:54 AM · #3 |
Hey there,
Nice photo Jeremy... But Jeb, Can you give us a little walk through on what you did to the sky, I really like it!
Eric... |
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07/09/2005 03:03:22 AM · #4 |
The sky definitely needs to be bluer. Here's my quick version...
Select the sky area (wand), tweak the brightness down, slightly change hue and saturation, then I used the gothic glow action on the image and just blurred the harsh tree line a bit. Could use a little more work but if you want prints, you need a higher res image to work with for better results.
Have fun.
edit: PS - DON'T crop it.
Message edited by author 2005-07-09 03:04:03.
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07/09/2005 03:10:58 AM · #5 |
LOL - Now I have to remember :)
Used the magic wand, can't remember the tolerance, at 30, deselected contigous. Cut selection/new layer with sky.
From there, I just played with the hue/saturation/lightness slightly. Hue +47 sat +100 light -3 . (I am redoing this, I didn't copy my steps lol) Then, on the sky layer, I used a soft brush with around 50% flow, and cloned just the bottom of the skyline. Changed sky layer blending mode to darken. |
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07/09/2005 03:15:44 AM · #6 |
I did a quick edit. What do you think?
Edit: toned down some of the purple giving it a more bluer look.
Message edited by author 2005-07-09 03:35:56.
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07/09/2005 03:17:11 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by SDW65:
I did a quick edit. What do you think?
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Nice, but somehow reminds me of a Jimi Hendrix song...
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07/09/2005 03:23:34 AM · #8 |
I like this one a little better than my other one - basically the same steps as above, but I included the foreground of the water, adjusted the hue & sat. but could not go to far without ruining the water. Then I adjusted the color balance accordingly... Cloned loosely where the waters met, changed the blend mode to darken.
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Message edited by author 2005-07-09 03:24:03. |
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07/09/2005 04:39:39 AM · #9 |
Here was my stab at editing your picture. I selected out the sky, then adjusted the saturation and the hue. I then inverted the selection and increased the saturation there. I then did some adjustment to lighting/shadow and boosted the contrast a little to bring out the trees. A tad unsharp mask, then cleaned up the noise a little without blurring the image too much. There was still noise, so I used the smudge tool on the sky and on the lighter part of the water.
Thank-you for offering your image. I'm still practicing on editing too, so I would appreciate comments on my attempts. |
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