worth messing with?

[Chriss]

You can do many things in photoshop and gimp such as increasing the contrast, increasing/decreasing the saturation, changing image levels, curves, and exposures. Heres just something I threw together with changing all the things listed above.

 

[rhinoryan]

i was thinking about something a bit more involved than changing saturation/contrast levels.... but thanks anyway!

 

[Chriss]

Hahah oh ok . I was just bored and decided to mess with it

 

[I'm new to photos]

im confused why the **** there would be a big baby above the beach seems dumb to me

 

[rhinoryan]

well if you go back through the thread the only reason this was posted was so someone show me how to edit out the wires..... i posted it purely so i could learn from it..... not asking for c+c at all. read the thread or don't bother commenting.

 

[Johnnytakeit]

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[rhinoryan]

it was a sculpture festival on the beach.

and about new to photo's post, i found it annoying, maybe it was just the way they wrote it.... but when someone writes ''why the f**k'' and ''seems dumb to me''
it comes accross a bit rude to me.......

 

[KmH]

how did i go..... ok for a first time....????

Good clone job.

I took the above and:

Then made a B&W version:

And an artsy version:

 

[rhinoryan]

exellent! that is what i wanted to see!!! now i have to try and figure out how do it...:scratch:

 

[KmH]

I opened your image in ACR and used the Gradient tool to increase the exposure of the beach and water.


In Photoshop, I

• made a copy of the background layer (Ctrl J)
• used the Quick Selection tool, selected the sculpture
• clicked on Select>Inverse so the sculpture was no longer selected
• modified the selection so the beach and water were excluded (only sky, not includeing the sculpture, down to the horizon were selected)
• made a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
• increased the saturation of the sky
• selected just the water and the beach
• made another Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and increased the saturation to make the color of the water more dense.
• I again selected the sculpture
• made a Vibrance adjustment layer
• and increased the vibrance of the sculpture

Using what I had so far I:

• made a Black & White adjustment layer
• and moved the various sliders to taste
• and flattened the image.

Next:

• I made a background copy layer
• clicked Image>Canvas Size
• and with the 'Relative' box checked gave the image a thin black border (0.05 inch)
• flattened
• made another background copy layer
• clicked Image>Canvas Size
• and with the 'Relative' box checked made a wider white border (0.5 inch).
• selected the drop shadow layer style
• and made a drop shadow.

The final steps were:

• click on Image>Mode>8 bit
• clicked on Filters>Topaz Adjust. Once Topaz Adjust opened
• I selected the Clarity preset and clicked ok
• clicked on Filters>Imagenomic and once Noiseware Pro opened
• selected the Landscape mode and clicked ok.
• Cliked on File>Save As a renamed JPEG
• turned off the black & white adjustment layer so the image was in color again
• Saved As a renamed JPEG
• clicked on Filter>Artistic and selected one of the options.
• Saved As a renamed JPEG and was done.

If you really want to learn CS4, I recommend 4 books in the following order:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS4. Classroom In A Book by Adobe Press
2. Photoshop CS4Workflow by Tim Grey
3. Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers by Martin Evening
4. The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby

 

[Dominantly]