Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

Mostly Luminar AI (after my usual initial PL5 denoise and lens correction

#1

Not competing, just following CF's "other worldly" vibe . . .

Edited in Photoshop.

Stiga wrote in post #19376888
Mostly Luminar AI (after my usual initial PL5 denoise and lens correction

#1

Wow, came out great.

GlimmerMan wrote in post #19377172
Wow, came out great.

Many thanks

Almost entirely in Luminar AI

I did not like the strong diagonal of the dune in the background, so I replaced it in Paintshop 7 usi. Yes, JASC Paintshop 7 still works well and it changed the orange dune to sky-blue.

Then I was able to use Luminar AI to replace the background. There are still traces of orange among the dead tree branches but I thinkk they are acceptable

Here are my own entries for this week, all done in PL5.2 with portraits finished in PP21'

Continued.

Some fun photos this week. Cheers,

Random Multilens in AnalogEfex which I tuned a bit, basically tweaking the compositions and fading the colors.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2nkv​Rst

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2nko​2Mj

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2nkt​qvw

And one other image I worked-up, which is probably the better one IMO. I thought the key with this image was comp and color separation, so cropped to a square, cleaned up some loose ends on the ground, and then tweaked the color. The sky has a red-blue split tone, I did a color replace on the sand dunes to put more yellow into the orange, and then did another color replace mask on the bottom third to change the ground to a white.

IMAGE LINK: https://www.flickr.com​/gp/glimmer_man/m17515

This one was just for fun and experimentation. Playing with the art history brush.

Okay, it's getting hard to keep up with who's sick, away from home or not competing, so I'm going to just pick my top two and if number one can't post the new challenge for the week(for whatever reason) then the duty will fall to the number 2 pick.

cfdesigns wrote in post #19377032
Edited in Photoshop.

Hosted photo: posted by cfdesigns in
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This is my number 1 pick.

Stiga wrote in post #19376888
Mostly Luminar AI (after my usual initial PL5 denoise and lens correction

#1

This is number 2.

Congrats guys! So, one of you please post the next challenge.

Thanks for the win Mark, I will post something tomorrow.

Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge
...now compiled into a single, easy to locate thread, that can be added to your subscribe/follow list!

Rules are simple:

Download the image file from the current week

Contestants will have 7 days to edit the image and post their edited version to the thread (as many entries as you like)

The owner of the original image will choose a winner

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

The new image must be unedited / SOOC (straight our 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.

Hope this works, here is the link for this weeks challenge. https://www.dropbox.co​m …sY_j9W2a9m7tvk3​nvKIa?dl=0