Take your crack at editing a Top 10 photo

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Pentax

01/04/2006 09:51:24 PM · #1

I had a heck of a time with the editing on my Oops challenge. I'd love to see how others edit it with the same restrictions I had.

Remember it is a Basic Challenge. I have Photoshop Elements, so to keep this fair, no using Curves. I can do adjustments layers with Levels, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, plus the the general tools USM, Noise, Auto Smart Fix, Shadow/Highlights.

Send me an e-mail and I'll send you the full sized file.

Color, BW is fair game, just keep it in the Basic Rules. Feel free to read the comments and use that feedback.

Becky

Entry:

Original:

Artyste

Sony Ericsson W810i

01/04/2006 10:08:19 PM · #2

Do you have "Selective Color"?

Konador

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

01/04/2006 10:10:09 PM · #3

Emailed you :)

01/04/2006 10:13:47 PM · #4

Not that I can see. Often they are called something different in Elements. Is it a tool (icon) and what is it related to? What does it do?

01/04/2006 10:19:49 PM · #5

Konador, the PM hasn't come through. I sent it to you listed e-mail address.

Feel free to e-mail me directly at infinityphotography@comcast.net

Becky

Konador

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

01/05/2006 07:04:34 PM · #6

Originally posted by rjkstesch:

Konador, the PM hasn't come through. I sent it to you listed e-mail address.

Feel free to e-mail me directly at infinityphotography@comcast.net

Becky

Got it :) I'll work on it later tonight, thanks! :)

Konador

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

01/05/2006 08:15:45 PM · #7

Rotate for more drama
Crop
Hue/Sat to take cyan out of the snow
Levels to increase contrast
Gaussian Blur and Fade
Resize
USM
Border

01/05/2006 08:37:37 PM · #8

Originally posted by Konador:

Rotate for more drama
Crop
Hue/Sat to take cyan out of the snow
Levels to increase contrast
Gaussian Blur and Fade
Resize
USM
Border

Nice edit. Left you a comment.

hardwaybets

Apple iPhone 11 Pro

01/05/2006 08:40:59 PM · #9

Quick question...what are curves? Any forum you can point me to?

eostyles

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

01/05/2006 08:56:05 PM · #10

Honestly I think I like the layout of the original one better.

01/05/2006 08:58:47 PM · #11

Originally posted by hardwaybets:

Quick question...what are curves? Any forum you can point me to?

Curves is very similar to levels, but allows much finer tuning to be done to the image. Here's a pretty good intro to curves that I found from a quick google search. >>Link<<
Hope this helps.

01/05/2006 09:24:42 PM · #12

send me the original? e-mail on profile.

R.

glad2badad

Apple iPhone 16 Pro

Lensbaby Sweet 35 Optic

01/05/2006 09:28:36 PM · #13

Originally posted by Konador:

Rotate for more drama
Crop
Hue/Sat to take cyan out of the snow
Levels to increase contrast
Gaussian Blur and Fade
Resize
USM
Border

Gaussian Blur and Fade? What's Fade? Sounds like an opacity setting for a layer (not legal in basic). Most likely a PS thing that I don't have in PSP... ;^)

01/05/2006 09:38:48 PM · #14

Originally posted by glad2badad:

Originally posted by Konador:

Rotate for more drama
Crop
Hue/Sat to take cyan out of the snow
Levels to increase contrast
Gaussian Blur and Fade
Resize
USM
Border

Gaussian Blur and Fade? What's Fade? Sounds like an opacity setting for a layer (not legal in basic). Most likely a PS thing that I don't have in PSP... ;^)

Fade essentially reduces the "opacity," or strength, if you will, of the effect: in this case, gaussian blur. I'm guess he used it to reduce the effect. And I believe this has been deemed legal in basic editing.

01/05/2006 10:19:00 PM · #15

In Photoshop, as soon as you make an adjustmewnt you can click "edit/fade effect" and it will allow you to fade between 100% and 0% the opacity of what you just did. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do it in elements also.

R.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/05/2006 11:30:15 PM · #16

Originally posted by Konador:

Rotate for more drama
Crop
Hue/Sat to take cyan out of the snow
Levels to increase contrast
Gaussian Blur and Fade
Resize
USM
Border

How fun! I've never seen the fade with the Glaussian Blur on Elements - I'll have to go looking for it.

Bear_Music, I've sent you the file. Shutterpug, you should have it, too.

Konador, Would you mind sending me the PSD file w/o flattening the layers (if you have it)? I'd love to take a close look. Thanks.

How awesome!
Becky

ShutterPug

Canon EOS-6D

01/07/2006 01:39:15 AM · #17

here's my stab at it using Basic Rules as I understand them. If I've done anything illegal please let me know - the details are in the photo comments box.

01/07/2006 02:15:47 AM · #18

I have not come up with anything as good as Ben's except a direct copy of it :-) My hat's off to him, and I'm out of the mix... Pug did a nice job too :-)

Robt.

01/07/2006 10:46:35 AM · #19

Shtterpug, Wow. There's alot of drama there. It's great to see the ways that you have pushed the image.

I like seeing the steps you both have used - and seeing the differences with Photoshop and Elements. Konador use Glassian Blur and Fade. I don't have the Fade in Elements that I could find. Normally, I have a way around it by putting it in a duplicate layer and changing the opacity. But, in Basic, you can't make duplicate layers with pixel information-so the only way to get the fade is to make sure the Blur strength is exactly what I want to begin with.

I also don't have Curves - I make my changes in Levels (not as precise). There's no Channel Mixer - B&W is much harder to work with. Again, I use Levels once the image has been desaturated with the Hue/Saturation. And, there's no Exposure. I work around that with Brightess/Contrast and Shadow/Highlights.

Thanks to both of you for letting me see my image through different eyes.

01/07/2006 11:10:53 AM · #20

Originally posted by rjkstesch:

I also don't have Curves - I make my changes in Levels (not as precise). There's no Channel Mixer - B&W is much harder to work with. Again, I use Levels once the image has been desaturated with the Hue/Saturation. And, there's no Exposure. I work around that with Brightess/Contrast and Shadow/Highlights.

FWIW, Becky, The GIMP offers both curves and channel mixer. It may be worth your while to give it a spin if you feel you can't live without these features.

And what is "Exposure?" I've used PS extensively and I'm not quite what you're referring to...

01/07/2006 12:22:32 PM · #21

Originally posted by justin_hewlett:

[quote=rjkstesch]

And what is "Exposure?" I've used PS extensively and I'm not quite what you're referring to...

Shutterpug referred to it in her comments. I'm not familiar with it.

Zigomar

Fujifilm X100T

Lensbaby 2.0

01/07/2006 01:43:08 PM · #22

I'm pretty new to editing, quick question: are we allowed to use selective color tool in basic editing??

01/07/2006 05:28:36 PM · #23

Originally posted by Zigomar:

I'm pretty new to editing, quick question: are we allowed to use selective color tool in basic editing??

Yes.