heavily prossesed

[AllanC]

hey everyone, most of my pictures aren't that great so i do a lot of messing around in photoshop, mostly because i think it's great fun... so how about a thread for those heavily processed shots. i think there could be some pretty great compositions.. plus it would be a cheap way for me to learn more about photoshop..... :p

so heres one i did today which i really like.

regards allan.

[Bald Eagle]

hey everyone, most of my pictures aren't that great so i do a lot of messing around in photoshop, mostly because i think it's great fun... so how about a thread for those heavily processed shots. i think there could be some pretty great compositions.. plus it would be a cheap way for me to learn more about photoshop..... :p

so heres one i did today which i really like.

regards allan.
I beg to differ, you take great shots, however, this one shows off your skills very well. excellent work in photoshop. I might have to try that. hhmmm.

[vancouverislander]

hey everyone, most of my pictures aren't that great so i do a lot of messing around in photoshop, mostly because i think it's great fun... so how about a thread for those heavily processed shots. i think there could be some pretty great compositions.. plus it would be a cheap way for me to learn more about photoshop..... :p

so heres one i did today which i really like.

regards allan.

Excellent picture and thread idea - looking forward to more pictures.

[ReF]

pretty cool. very interested in hearing how you got that space background.

[explorer]

my version of heavily processed :D

http://www.pbase.com/explorer/image/41270599.jpg


...compared to the original version :D

http://www.pbase.com/explorer/image/41270936.jpg

[meillana]

nice, i also like the original.
"ang ganda bro!"

[AllanC]

i'm glad this may take off a little.. i love both those shots explorer, like all your work. all you other guys and gals too, you really are a great sourse of inspiration.

i downloaded a few space images ages ago, i think they are the most beutifull images you can get and of course they are all precessed arent they.

i had the origional pic from a days hicking in the brecon beacons in south wales. i loved the shot of the outcrop but the sky was really overcast that day and pretty much just white and it looked awfully boring. i tried quite a few different images using layers but this one semed to fit just nice. the only alteration to either of them were to increase the image size of the nebula pic and then add some lighting effects from the left.

glad you liked it.

[g0tr00t]

explorer, do you have one without the light pole? The sky colors in the processed are dramatic! nice job!!!

[wall]

Cool pictures AllanC and explorer.

I agree with g0tr00t that that pic would look better without the light pole. Hope you don't mind, but I've added a little more processing to your pic :D

[meillana]

WOW! i like it.

[scatamousche]

I love to work in Photoshop. Sometimes I make designs from scratch without any photographic elements. They mostly start as color gradients and I warp the hell out of them with effects. I went ahead and added a real photographic element to this one. The frog seems right at home.

Scatamousche

http://www.karma-lab.nl/Pictures/SkyPhalanxFrog.jpg

[phistio]

we should start a post processing challenge...

here's my contribution to explorer's wonderful image:

[AllanC]

thats really cool scatamousche.

would it be ok for people to post some details of the processes the used to achieve the composition.

[Esoterra]

AllanC,

Your picture is really cool. I'm curious how you did it. Im thinking that you layerd 2 seperate images (Sky + Hill) into one picture? Please fill me in, I would love to try that technique myself.


Thanks,

Eso

[AllanC]

hey thanks for the kind comment. yeah just used layers, made a background copy. pasted a copy of the nebula pic in between. then i cut the sky from the bottom layer and flattened the image. it was a prety simple process, i'm just trying to learn photoshop. it's quite complex though, i really should invest in a book....lol...i would love to learn how to create something like scatamousche.

Allan.

[scatamousche]

thats really cool scatamousche.

would it be ok for people to post some details of the processes the used to achieve the composition.

Hi Allan,

Here's a link to a tutorial I did on making basic gradient designs. (4th post down in the thread) I could do one on selecting objects and moving them onto other backgrounds if anybody was interested.

Scatamousche

http://www.karma-lab.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4052

[SamPhilly]

Nice processing, I also need to learn photoshop.

[D Thompson]

:D I don't know if this belongs here or the abstracts thread. Here is one I was "commissioned" to do to a co-worker, who took it in good humor. :D

Dennis

[phistio]

i laughed...great photo! nice work! :D :D :D

[Geoff Chandler]

This thread is fun and really interesting.
I think it is a good idea to post details of how you process your pics - that would help inspire everyone and also educate us all by sharing skills.
To me this is all part of the whole digital photography package, post processing was with us in film photography - it's just that many of us didn't get so involved (I did - a little). With didgital & PC's & Macs it's all become so much more accesable.
So - when I get a moment I will join in and do something - my Photo-shop type skills are still in their early days though - so I am looking forward to picking up some handy tips (actually I use Serif 8 - but it's quite similar).
Thanks for starting this thread - it's very entertaining.
Geoff :)

[vancouverislander]

This is hilarious - somehow the 'shock' factor stays - It cracks me up every time I look at it. Great thread - talented people!

:D I don't know if this belongs here or the abstracts thread. Here is one I was "commissioned" to do to a co-worker, who took it in good humor. :D

Dennis

[D Thompson]

This is hilarious - somehow the 'shock' factor stays - It cracks me up every time I look at it. Great thread - talented people!
Thanks, I get a laugh every time too! The co-worker took the shot of himself and it fell into others hands who passed it on to me to do something with. Once I got the idea, it was off to the races and I had a hard time finishing it for laughing. I'm glad it started your day off good!

Dennis

[Geoff Chandler]

Actually I have posted this, or one very similar, before - whilst processing some night shots of Croydon - I slipped, dramatically, in curves and decided to keep he result...

[AllanC]

great pics guys,

scatamousche, i for one would definately be interested in any tutorials you care to write. i went through the one form the link you posted and found it well writen and easy to follow. thanks.

Allan.

[Bald Eagle]

new shot, strong colors, hope you like.

[Geoff Chandler]

Joining in the fun again - titled this one 'Earthbound' - quick dabble in Serif
Taken from a shot and croped and processed for effect
Hope you like it..

[Geoff Chandler]

Really was done quite quickly - I will hae a more serious try again soon - here's a slight additional tweak to Earthbound...

[explorer]

all your photos are just amazing guys! hopefully...i'll learn more from you with this thread. great job guys! thanks for sharing all your photos.

[scatamousche]

Hi Dennis,

Your friend is a real sport to let you do that toilet picture with his image. I think If I were him, under those circumstances, I would keep my mouth shut.

Hi Geoff,

Your building picture shows the power of the "happy accident". You just have to recognize them when they happen.

Hi Allan,
Glad you were able to get through the tutorial ok. Let me know if yours came out looking more or less like my example.

What would you like the next tutorial to be. Two possibilities are selecting and dragging objects onto different backgrounds and cleaning the edges. Or one of my favorite things to do is making symmetrical versions of flowers, etc.

Here's another example of one of my photographic/handmade hybrids.

Scatamousche

http://www.karma-lab.nl/Pictures/PersianShieldHybrid.jpg

[Geoff Chandler]

scatamousche ~ That's a great example there - love those colours,
can you tell us all how you went about it?? Layers, paste on the altered leaf? Dunno - but I would love to know.
Great job!
Geoff ;)

[explorer]

@ wall and phistio, thanks for giving me the idea how to further 'manipulate' that sunset photo. here's another version of that sunset :D probably what i have is not really 'heavilly' processed but done mildly :D

the original
http://www.pbase.com/explorer/image/41269093.jpg

the 'mildly' processed version
http://www.pbase.com/explorer/image/41269262.jpg

[AllanC]

thats a nice alteration explorer, i like it a lot. kinda frames the picture.

scatamousche, when i worked through the tutorial you wrote the 8" by 8" square for some reason wasn't quite exact, it had a border round the bottom and right hand side. other than that it was ok. anything you care to write would be cool, i know it will take some of your time to do it so anything would be appreciated.

great ppics everyone, keep it up.

Allan.

[scatamousche]

scatamousche ~ That's a great example there - love those colours,
can you tell us all how you went about it?? Layers, paste on the altered leaf? Dunno - but I would love to know.
Great job!
Geoff ;)

Hi Geoff,

As you probably figured out, I sampled the colors used in the background design from the persian shield plant. I made color gradient bars, fading pairs of the selected colors and later warped and manipulated those bars into the spiral design. I used my drawing tablet to draw around the persian shield plant and used the move tool to drag the selection onto the background design, positioning it in the best way to give it the illusion of depth. I could go into more detail if you want.

Hi Allan,
After reading your post I would be curious to see what you came up with after doing my tutorial. Did you use Photoshop CS? I used Photoshop 6 when I made up the tutorial and have since gotten CS. I noticed when using the grid in the new photoshop that inexplicably the the grid didn't line up properly, leaving some excess space around my work area. Since I couldn't figure out why this was happening I have just gone back to Photoshop 6 for my "hand made" designs.

Scatamousche

[AllanC]

yip i'm using CS, i'm going away for a week now so i wont be able to post what came out for a while either. but then hopefully i'll come back with some good shots of a 2 day music festival i'm going to. :)

[phistio]

i wouldn't say heavy post processing, but i just wanted to display some of the things i typically do in photoshop...

original
http://www.digitalwraith.com/images/phistio/photos/staterushedorig.jpg

color balanced, and rotated to level
http://www.digitalwraith.com/images/phistio/photos/staterushed.jpg

vinnette correction
http://www.digitalwraith.com/images/phistio/photos/staterushedvinned.jpg

[D Thompson]

i wouldn't say heavy post processing, but i just wanted to display some of the things i typically do in photoshop...
Nice work.

Dennis

[amj07]

What I like about digital is that even a picture that turns out horribly wrong can still be used, if you only mess with it a little. Like this one, one of my "learning experiences" - completey wrong white balance, wrong exposure, wrong everything. But the scene itself isn't so bad. What to do? I did this, fairly simple, but in my eyes fairly decent, too:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/Northern_Lights/Trollskog.jpg

[Mika]

Cropped and framed moon picture.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/373/moon19ka.jpg

-Mika

[scatamousche]

Hi Phistio,

Way to clean up Chicago, Dude! I think I prefer the 2nd image to the 3rd though. It's amazing how much color you were able to pull out of that first image. Rich without being fakey!

Hey amj,

Your forest has a definite mood to it now. Call it sinister sepia?

Mika's piece reminds me of a Rene Magritte painting. There's lots of links on the internet for him if the name doesn't ring a bell.

I have a quick tip here for images that have recognizable form, good color but nothing is really in focus. Before you throw it away try this Photoshop effect by going to Filter/ Stylize/ Extrude. For a small demo like I am posting here, approximately 540 pixels high, set the size and depth to 10 and click type/blocks if it isn't highlighted already. For this one I checked Random but you can experiment with all the parameters for different size pictures, etc.

After adding the extrusion effect I tweaked the levels a bit.

Scatamousche

http://www.karma-lab.nl/Pictures/BlurryLily.jpg

http://www.karma-lab.nl/Pictures/BlurryLilyExtruded.jpg

[Bald Eagle]

I hope you like.

[AllanC]

thats really quite scary BE how did you do it?

[Fiorano]

Hi,

This is a photomanipulation of a couple of photo's.

Hope you like it. For credits: see http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14798664/

Fiorano

[AllanC]

hey, scatamousche. this is what i came up with after messing around with the sizes. ready for the next tutorial.... :D

[Bald Eagle]

thats really quite scary BE how did you do it?
thanks, i thought it had a dark look about it. all i really did to it, was darken it, the spider really is pure white. glad you liked it. you're abstracts are very impressive as well, more like Abstract Art.

[aparmley]

Hmmm... Interesting stuff guys... I may have one or two that may feel at home in here... lets see..

[aparmley]

Geoff I played around with earthbound a little bit hope you like!

[phistio]

apmarley....that's fine work!

(correct me if i'm wrong, but looks like a mask was made around the subject, gausion blur, a bit of saturation and color contrast, while the background was desaturated, a "plastic wrap" filter, and then turned sideways and stylize>wind was done...am i close?)

i have some plug-ins you may be interested in...pm me for details...

[aparmley]

Phisto - you are very close - that takes a good eye and good knowledge to guess that. Heres what I did. I made a selection around the falling subject, copied it to a new layer, converted the background layer to B&W, erased the background on my new layer, ie the background that came with him as to isolate the subject. I then applied motion blur with a 90 degree angle to help show his movement downward. After seeing it, I figured something else may give it that extra odd looking feature, so I simply applied the plastic wrap [not sure of my settings] to the background layer... So, you were very close, but I think what you described was a little more complicated than what I did... But thanks for the compliments! its fun stuff!

[phistio]

thanks...i was close... :D nonetheless, i'm fairly adept in photoshop. my experience in the program allowed me to "almost" decipher your processing. both your way (and my way) would have created close to the same image. gausion blur, motion blur...eh, what's the difference.

all things aside, nice work! :) :)

going back a few posts of mine...with the series of three chicago shots...garbage in = garbage out...the series was not the best of shots for me to really post about my PS skills; but it was a quick show of minor skill, as i did it "on the fly".

i'll have to post a heavily processed shot here to back myself up. i promise...i'm "Ok" at photoshop. ;)

[Geoff Chandler]

Geoff I played around with earthbound a little bit hope you like!
Yes - great job! - would be interested to know what you did - I never got back to it to play around as life seems to go in pulses or cycles due to doing alternate day and night shifts. Thanks for having a tweek with it - very interesting!

[Medic1210]

Original image of my daughter taken with my Panasonic Lumix FZ20 handheld at 1/10 second

http://www.pbase.com/mike_curtis/image/39610687.jpg

Here is the processed one. Processed it using PSP 9 following the steps found on dpreview retouching forum.

http://www.pbase.com/mike_curtis/image/39602477.jpg



And another pose converted the same way. Not posting the original, as it's just like the first.



http://www.pbase.com/mike_curtis/image/39602476.jpg

Mike

[phistio]

excellent work! :D

[AllanC]

medic those are just beautifull adjustments, i really do like the alteration a lot. very nice work.

[ducksoup]

Medic, her eyes are absolutely astonishing. In both shots, but especially so in the retouched version of the full color photo. Her eyes are amazing in the full color, but totally dominate the retouch. I love the effect of those two retouched ones. I just got PSP 9 recently and love playing around with it. Nice job!

Mike

[wall]

Great work, Medic. You have a lovely daughter. The original pic was good, but the retouched portraits blew my socks off. ducksoup is right - the eyes says it all.

[Phill D]

Yes I agree with everyone else Medic the first shot was pretty impressive hand held at 1/10 s but the retouches are absolutely stunning. I'm sure you must have them all in frames.

[Rocket850]

Great work Mike! Could you post a link to the page where you learned some of these techniques?

~ Jay

[phistio]

lot of work here...mostly in a proper mask.

http://www.digitalwraith.com/images/phistio/photos/passionorchid.gif

[Medic1210]

Great work Mike! Could you post a link to the page where you learned some of these techniques?

~ Jay

Thanks for all the compliments on my two photos. As for the technique I used to convert them, here is the link to the original post

Retouch link (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=12073754)

Here is the reply where Ron lists all the steps he took. Just to let you know ahead of time, it's a lot of tweaking and adjusting to see what works and what doesn't. There is no one setting for all photos. As for the almost porcelain looking skin, this comes from very heavy use of the built in noise reduction in PSP 9. Be sure to look a few replies down where he shows the original image. A pure snapshot. In fact when he first posted the original, I thought he was joking, but then realized he wasn't. It's neat what you can do to an otherwise "junk" shot with a decent editing program.

Click here for the listed steps (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=12101531)

This link helped me with the color layer... (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=12127184)

Have fun, and be sure to post an example of your results when you figure it out.

Mike