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 08/25/2006 12:26:01 AM · #1
Can someone show me some different ways to edit this photo to make it look better cos its proving difficult for me >.<
08/25/2006 12:32:24 AM · #2
I'm going to try to help, but take it with a grain of salt as landscapes aren't my specialty.

Colors are coming across as flat to me in general, but your sky is really blue. You may try to increase saturation in the greens and yellows to give the foliage some life.

Tweak the curves some to increase midtone contrast.

Edit to add pic



Message edited by author 2006-08-25 00:36:36.
 08/25/2006 12:39:37 AM · #3


Here's my attempt. I hope you like it.

Message edited by author 2006-08-25 00:40:06.
 08/25/2006 01:22:23 AM · #4
My try:

08/25/2006 01:32:28 AM · #5
my stab at it
 08/25/2006 01:49:16 AM · #6
A couple possibilities.


Message edited by author 2006-08-25 23:06:39.
 08/25/2006 01:59:41 AM · #7
One of the biggest problems is that it looks like it was taken from a moving car, which is understandable cause it was.
08/25/2006 02:03:05 AM · #8
I'm NOT in favor of removing the foreground fence and weeds, blurred though they may be. They give the shot a sense of immediacy, of urgency, and without that it's really quite forgettable. This version uses a couple passes of contrast masking with soft light shadows, hue sat to amp up the yellows, reds and greens and tone down the blues and cyans, foreground and sky gradients (slight) and corner vignetting (very slight), plus aggressive sharpening (perhaps too much).



Robt.
 08/25/2006 02:09:19 AM · #9
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
I'm NOT in favor of removing the foreground fence and weeds, blurred though they may be. They give the shot a sense of immediacy, of urgency, and without that it's really quite forgettable. This version uses a couple passes of contrast masking with soft light shadows, hue sat to amp up the yellows, reds and greens and tone down the blues and cyans, foreground and sky gradients (slight) and corner vignetting (very slight), plus aggressive sharpening (perhaps too much).



Robt.


I take my last comment back - the biggest problem is that Bear Music hadn't processed it yet. What a difference great processing makes.
Now excuse me while I go and read through all 1083 posts in the Landscape learning thread.
 08/25/2006 02:20:54 AM · #10
*Cocks her shot gun* Is he having a go at me?
Thanks for all the great edits guys ^_^ God love yas

Message edited by author 2006-08-25 02:21:18.
 08/25/2006 02:48:38 AM · #11
Here's my go at it:



I was inspired quite a bit by Bear_Music's version. I love the glowing, saturated quality to his and I tried to recreate it.

In GIMP: used contrast masking, quite a bit of selective levels and hue/sat, USM, etc. Some slight dodging/burning with a 50% gray overlay layer.
 08/25/2006 02:49:42 AM · #12
after experimenting, a lot.... finally did something decent :p i think

it was really cool to practice

i dodge and burned a lot of stuff here alomost every thing
Some spot sat in the trees in the center, the add new layer painted some yellos brown tone, multuply the layer and some levels
and the frame and burned de sides

Message edited by author 2006-08-25 02:53:46.
 08/25/2006 02:50:03 AM · #13
I cloned some texture into the burnt-out areas of the clouds, it would have been hard to do much with the sky otherwise. Different RGB curves on multiple layers erasing any areas I did not want the curve applied to. Selective sharpening followed by a slight blur of the near area of grass/scrub.

I hope this helps. Mike



I uploaded the wrong one ... fixed it now!

Message edited by author 2006-08-25 03:17:50.
 08/25/2006 03:06:10 AM · #14
Here's my rendition:


08/25/2006 03:19:13 AM · #15
Tighter crop...

//homepage.mac.com/photoalan/.Pictures/picture2.png

Message edited by kirbic - converted large pic to link :-).
 08/25/2006 03:20:57 AM · #16
Messed with the sky a bit and also some motion blur variations.

08/25/2006 03:56:31 AM · #17


Message edited by author 2006-08-25 04:13:06.
 08/25/2006 04:07:43 AM · #18
I thought the first edit I did lacked depth so I’ve added a bit more gradient to the sky.
Before: After:
08/25/2006 04:05:15 PM · #19
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
I'm NOT in favor of removing the foreground fence and weeds, blurred though they may be. They give the shot a sense of immediacy, of urgency, and without that it's really quite forgettable. This version uses a couple passes of contrast masking with soft light shadows, hue sat to amp up the yellows, reds and greens and tone down the blues and cyans, foreground and sky gradients (slight) and corner vignetting (very slight), plus aggressive sharpening (perhaps too much).



Robt.


I've seen the magic you've worked on a number of peoples images now and love it. I know this is a lot to ask but I would really appreciate a "case study" on processing an image (like this one). I'm not very experienced with Photoshop and I can read about the adjustments etc but the trick (I think) is to know when to use them and they work in the real world.

Is there any chance you could expand on your instructions in a more step-by-step case study/tutorial way so that I (and anyone else you thinks they'd learn from it) can follow along?
 08/25/2006 04:13:50 PM · #20
Is there anyway we can get a Bear_Music filter for photoshop?
 08/25/2006 04:34:42 PM · #21
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Is there anyway we can get a Bear_Music filter for photoshop?


It wouldn't be hard to write an action for this, but the problem is I use different settings for layer mode depending on the shot, different degrees of layer opacity, and different numbers of passes of contrast masking to boot. Since all it takes to generate a set of contrast masks is "cntrl alt tilde + cntrl J", then "cntrl alt tilde + cntrl shift i + cntrl J" to generate the two masks, I've felt no need to automate it.

The art of it is in assigning the layer modes and the opacities based on the image you're working with.

Robt.
 08/25/2006 05:04:44 PM · #22

08/25/2006 05:33:54 PM · #23
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
all it takes to generate a set of contrast masks is "cntrl alt tilde + cntrl J", then "cntrl alt tilde + cntrl shift i + cntrl J" to generate the two masks


I couldn't find that ctrl+alt+~ documented anywhere but I've worked out it is the same as Select > Colour Range > Hilights.

Just making these two layers and playing with the blending mode made a large difference - I have something to play with now - thanks Robert.

08/25/2006 06:04:26 PM · #24
That original photo is Australia right? Does anyone think that some of the post processing people are doing is making everything too green? Is there a way to make the hill pop without losing the kahki colour on the grasses?

T

Message edited by author 2006-08-25 18:11:55.
 08/25/2006 06:22:43 PM · #25

oh i forgot ... i cropped it to 4:3 aspect

Message edited by author 2006-08-26 03:53:17.
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