Christmas selective color...C&C welcome.

[Permagrin]

My husband and I were both shooting macros of Christmas decorations...this one ended up being a collaboration. Thoughts?

http://LC-images.smugmug.com/photos/115793399-M.jpg

[rmodys]

Great usage of selective colouring, I like it.

[Avey]

That's pretty cool. I like it.

Good use of the selective color.

[tlc]

yah, that's pretty cool, i like it, it reminds me of that director who does all those funky movies, damn.... what is his name? he did nightmare before christmas......:p

[version.J]

yah, that's pretty cool, i like it, it reminds me of that director who does all those funky movies, damn.... what is his name? he did nightmare before christmas......:p


tim burton i believe :)

[tlc]

tim burton i believe :)

YAY!!!!!!!! now i dont have to walk around all day trying to recall his name......:p

it really is quite a cute picture.

[Woolburr]

I'll take the full color version....

[racketman]

very effective.

[H2M]

Great pic. by using selective colouring, effective collaboration!
I like the shot.

[MP9000]

I totally agree with H2M.. Great collaboration!..

[Permagrin]

Thank you everyone for your nice comments! It was our first attempt at the selective color and we had a lot of fun with it. (It now resides as my desktop photo :) )

[backlot]

what!
it is not your christmas card?
very nice

[Permagrin]

You know, we just did it yesterday...I never even thought of making it a card. Good idea for next year!

[MattPollitt]

I love it, how'd you go about doing it in Photoshop? I like to hear other people's selective color approaches and techniques.

[Permagrin]

Thanks Matt for the compliment. I use PE4 and so I made a duplicate layer, converted it to B&W and adjusted levels and shadows until I liked it then erased the B&W over the christmas lights, used an infrared B&W filter to add contrast and dimension and then flattened it.

[skade]

Very nice! I really like it!

[PetKal]

Not bad, but I think that sort of an image belongs on the Macro Forum.

[Athena]

It came out really well. :) Good teamwork.

[Permagrin]

Not bad, but I think that sort of an image belongs on the Macro Forum.

Well that's one way to think about it :lol:

[Permagrin]

It came out really well. :) Good teamwork.

Thank you Athena and Skade :)

[tim1960]

Very good. Not a big fan of selective color but this is good.

Tim

[Permagrin]

Thank you Tim. Actually, I'm not either...but it seemed like a good idea at the time, so I thought I'd try it :lol:

[milleker]

Not a fan of SC either, but it really works here. Great shot.

[Permagrin]

thanks Milleker. It's funny, this was such a whim and has gotten more responses that my last 10 or so "regular, blood sweat and tears to get the shot" C&C posts combined :lol: :lol: :lol:

Again thanks to everyone who commented!

[brantfordbandit]

is it neccessary to flattn the image after working on it?

[Permagrin]

No...you can merge down instead. I flatted mine because I couldn't upload it to my server without flattening it.

[no5094]

very nice!!!

[Permagrin]

Thank you no5094. Glad you enjoyed it!

[Titus213]

This looks like a fun shoot. Very nice capture. Looks like part of a Christmas animation project.

[Mandragora]

i love it! this is the first ever (and probably last) example of selective coloring that i like. awesome! :D

[Permagrin]

This looks like a fun shoot. Very nice capture. Looks like part of a Christmas animation project.

...Christmas animation would have been a very fun idea...this is a hard plastic figuring though...but thank you for the compliment.

i love it! this is the first ever (and probably last) example of selective coloring that i like. awesome! :D

That's a very nice compliment Mandragora. Thank you!