Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

That's a fun one. Filmulator-1.0β to develop from RAW, then GIMP to do various things including color correcting the Blue and Green channels by curves, then RawTherapee for the final product.

Threshold and levels for black and white points, convert to B&W and sepia toned, cloned out distractions and cropped

Gave it a winter makeover just for fun. Using Photoshop, color lookups, various brushes, and overlays.

It wouldn’t be closed if they served hot chocolate.

Thought id push the vintage feel, so kodachrome filter and then desaturated it, and a couple of little clone jobs to make it seem less busy. (I have no idea what I'm doing when its not a portrait, or in general really. I think I just tried to make a shopfront pretty).

Nice one Thayli, what is your software/workflow.

Benitoite wrote in post #18784973
Nice one Thayli, what is your software/workflow.

Opps, sorry. Into photoshop, reduced clarity a bit because it seemed a bit too much for me. Took away the wood gouges since I didnt think the bare color underneath matched the treated surface very well, my eyes kept looking at the nail heads during editing so I took them away as well. My aim was going vintage so I also removed the spotlight and the cable running from under the clock as they didnt fit the old-timey idea. At that point I remembered this isnt a portrait and these arent blackheads I'm removing, so I cloned out some of the bigger pieces of dried gum that I couldn't resist and called it a day. There was some curves business going on but I cant remember what I settled on. Threw a Kodachrome filter from Exposure7 over the top to get the vintage film feel, but it was a bit too much so I faded 50% and dropped saturation right down to go for the faded photo look.
I think I did the complete opposite of what would be normal here, and removed lots of details instead of emphasizing them. Learning curve and all that.

Interesting. Thanks.

Wow, lots of great edits this week and welcome to Thayli who, to the best of my knowledge, is a first-time participant. I think cfdesigns' 2nd edit, the winter scene with early birds is going to be the winner, with NigelD's dark sepia version taking the runner-up position.

Congrats and it's yours this week cfdesigns!

Thanks for the win. I will post something later on either tonight or tomorrow if I am feeling better.

Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge, 8 January 2019
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Rules are simple:

The winner will copy & paste this post and include a new downloadable image link


The new image must be unedited / SOOC (straight out of camera), full-resolution, and in a RAW format, ie. CR2, DNG, TIF, etc (Dropbox works well for uploading and linking these large files) The purpose of this game is to be creative and learn new editing techniques. You must give some insight into exactly how you went about editing the image. For example, increased shadows sliders, reduced highlights, local sharpening, white balance adjustment, specific filters used, tone curve adjustments, etc. Comments and/or questions regarding the edits are encouraged.

For this weeks challenge, I decided on a winter scene seeing that it has been in the 60's here in Kentucky, so we haven't quite had winter yet. https://www.dropbox.co​m …s2csvg7/_MG_048​7.CR2?dl=0

High contrast version done in DXO Pro Optics 11 transferred to Affinity Photo for contrast tweaks.

SNS-HDR 2 - default preset, minor brushwork in Photoshop