Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

More. This is it as the other two don't inspire me either.

Stiga wrote in post #19446084
Very interesting, Rob. So, is Neo aimimg to overtake PS and Topaz?

Looks like it. Other Neo extensions target Topaz Gigapixel and Denoise, too. Neo is getting better, esp. with the additions - finally - of clone and a few other previously missing elements. Still exploring. The fact that you can choose to buy the Luminar products outright (vs. "rental") continues to appeal to me vs LR.

I recently compared what Aurora HDR does (the basic AI treatment when I open a single image) to the results from the single image Neo HDR extension and the results are identical, so it looks as if they may have incorporated the Aurora module (or that part of it, at least) directly into the Neo extension. Advantage of Neo HDR is that it will take .cr3 files, which Aurora has never done.

Convenient to have all these things (including Topaz-like capabilities) in one program.

rrblint wrote in post #19441526
Here's three of them. I'm still working on the bird.

PL6 to LP for finishing.

Hosted photo: posted by rrblint in
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Hosted photo: posted by rrblint in
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IMHO, the bottom image is a marked improvement on the original. The 'golden hour' enhancement matches the shadow angles wonderfully, and truly appears very realistic to my eyes. Also, the crop improves the composition considerably. The winner

CVGwin wrote in post #19446399
IMHO, the bottom image is a marked improvement on the original. The 'golden hour' enhancement matches the shadow angles wonderfully, and truly appears very realistic to my eyes. Also, the crop improves the composition considerably. The winner

Thank you very much!

Have to give the win to rrblint for his nice frequency separation on the portraits.

Congrats, take it away rrblint

Thanks Bianchi!

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)
  
  

And here are the obligatory portraits.

For kicks, tried this exclusively in Aurora. Several sliders and a bit of a crop + some dodging and burning. Really brings out the sky which looks absent in the original.

RDWP wrote in post #19447153
For kicks, tried this exclusively in Aurora. Several sliders and a bit of a crop + some dodging and burning. Really brings out the sky which looks absent in the original.

Hosted photo: posted by RDWP in
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Mmmm, interesting. I cannot get near that result with standalone Aurora 1.0.02550.1 2019. This is what emerges using the Bright Landscape preset

Stiga wrote in post #19447484
Basically, the original is a very uninteresting shot and one is forced to use digital trickery to produce something passable. If it had been my shot I would have dumped it

Me too! But the challenge is to make something out of it, serious or funny, it doesn't matter.

Martin - You and A! have done a good job of re-purposing that sow's ear, though!

Not competing, just screwin' around . . .

My kind of photo

PL6 > Aurora > PS crop and straighten horizon

Edited in Photoshop with filters (2nd image) and color grading.

Double exposure Photoshop