Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

Martin, the first link that you posted is the link to the railway station that we did in the other thread. Second one is correct.

rrblint wrote in post #19330215
Martin, the first link that you posted is the link to the railway station that we did in the other thread. Second one is correct.

Dam! It should be https://u.pcloud.link …bk1sEe4bI0lVOz3​a3dBXSgmrk

I'll correct my original post too.

There has been a lot on hand today - had to reset my desktop to factory settings as a roll-back from Win11 to Win10 left me with all sorts of niggling problems. Thanks to MajorGeeks it is now bullet-proof and M$ will stop nagging me to upgtrade to their all singing and dancing disaster!

Stiga wrote in post #19330278
Dam! It should be https://u.pcloud.link …bk1sEe4bI0lVOz3​a3dBXSgmrk

That link goes to the palace. Still need a link to the lighthouse.

Peano wrote in post #19330290
='Peano;19330290]That link goes to the palace. Still need a link to the lighthouse.

Corrected

The folder was filled with 7 jpg's. I used HDR Efex Pro 2 to combine all the images and then added the birds and the balloon.

Not competing, just practicing ...

Main steps in PS CS6:

Painted window lights on a blank layer.

EDIT: added second photo for comparison.

Nikon D3 • Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED @32mm • 1/10 • f/9 • ISO 500

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First PP on my rescued PC! Have not reinstalled all my software yet.

Madrid Palace

1. All images in Aurora HDR > output as TIF
2. ShiftN to correct perspective
3. PS/ACR clean up some of the pedestrian ghosts not eliminated in Aurora

Just in case folk are pi**ed off that there are no RAWs to get your teeth into, here is one from the Signature royalty-free web site

Download Street Scene RAW

DXO PhotoLab 5 to process. Perspective Efex to straighten and volume deformation, Luminar AI to change the sky

Straightened and cropped. A bit of gardening, TK Panel adjustments to shadows and foreground. LAB Colour boost and sharpening

PL5 NR and lens corrections, selctive tone and contrast=>Landscape Pro for finishing touches.

I said earlirt that I was not happy with my rendering of the Madrid Palace so here is my 2nd attempt

1. Photomatiox (did a very good deghosting)
2. PS/ACR > partial perspective correction > lightened palace building > resized and sharpened

PS: Blend two images, color grading, curve adjustments, gaussian blur, light streaks and re-lighting, extend canvas.

DxO Viewpoint does a much better job than I can achieve!

LR basic adjustments to PS color grading, curve adjustments, relocate subjects.