xmas spirit

[karusel]

The following photo was taken in xmas time in Munich 2003 (and altered in PS7) so, what do you think of it?

http://freeweb.siol.net/avenger/xmas_munich.jpg

[peter/c]

Its a very nice pic with lovely 'warm' colours, although the sky looks unreal..pasted in?

[karusel]

Thanx.. you're right, now that I look at it again after some pause, it does look unnatural. It wasn't pasted in though, i just darkened it, since it was almost white originally... I think the correct solution would be to darken it even more:

http://freeweb.siol.net/avenger/xmas_munichx.jpg

[shniks]

The darker sky looks good, but I think it would look better without the stars, they dont look real. Maybe try them in white, instead of yellow?

[dreamer]

i don't like that sky. the building is really good. if i were you i wouldn't add on those stars. IF you really wanted too, don' use star shapes LOL. A better tool in photoshop is the lens flare (filter>render>lensflare), justput it on a low level and you will get some realistic looking stars.

[karusel]

OK in attempt to create some more magic I went too far using custom shaped stars from PS :oops: Now they're gone. I had a postcard kind-of concept in mind when I was editing this photo...

By the way, original looked like this:
http://freeweb.siol.net/avenger/xmas_munich_or.jpg