Before & After #354

This game is to help those of us who are trying to learn new editing tricks.

Here's the breakdown of the game. I will post a picture, re-sized to exactly 1024 pixels maximum on the long side. Outside of being re-sized it has to be unedited...meaning no adjustments to any levels, it has to look like it did as it came out of the camera.

The game will last 4 Days (96 hrs) and whoever can produce the best edited image (as judged by me) will be picked and it'll be their turn to post their unedited picture for all of us to take a crack at.

The participants must have their "Image Editing OK" turned on and they must provide at least a simple breakdown of how they edited the image, some entrants are a little vague on this point, please give us all details so we can learn and share tips. For instance if you use the unsharp mask tool or Smart Sharpen, provide us with the adjustments you used so others can try them out.

You can post multiple images, but the first image you post will be the one that is judged - all other images will be considered for knowledge and tip use only.

Also, please keep all comments, be they positive or negative, to yourself until after the game has ended.

If you happen to be the winner of the game please start the next one with the title of the game and the following number. For example…the next game should read "Before & After #355."

Game ends April 9, 2011 @ 7:30pm CST

My quick play...probably needs a bit more finesse...

Applied oil paint filter to a region around the kids and upped saturation a bit.

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--- PLEASE READ THE RULES ---

This game is to help those of us who are trying to learn new editing tricks.

Here's the breakdown of the game. I will post a picture, re-sized to exactly 1024 pixels maximum on the long side. Outside of being re-sized it has to be unedited...meaning no adjustments to any levels, it has to look like it did as it came out of the camera.

The game will last 4 Days (96 hrs) and whoever can produce the best edited image (as judged by me) will be picked and it'll be their turn to post their unedited picture for all of us to take a crack at.

The participants must have their "Image Editing OK" turned on and they must provide at least a simple breakdown of how they edited the image, some entrants are a little vague on this point, please give us all details so we can learn and share tips. For instance if you use the unsharp mask tool or Smart Sharpen, provide us with the adjustments you used so others can try them out.

You can post multiple images, but the first image you post will be the one that is judged - all other images will be considered for knowledge and tip use only.

Also, please keep all comments, be they positive or negative, to yourself until after the game has ended.


THANK YOU

Thank you Douglas. Please, stop the Brick thing. Ok so here is my take.

Temp. Tint. Modify colors. lots of other minor things (BCCVS - Brightness Contrast Color VIbrance Saturation). And thought to throw a frame in just to make it more interesting.

-Douglas- wrote in post #12169341
--- PLEASE READ THE RULES ---

This game is to help those of us who are trying to learn new editing tricks.

Here's the breakdown of the game. I will post a picture, re-sized to exactly 1024 pixels maximum on the long side. Outside of being re-sized it has to be unedited...meaning no adjustments to any levels, it has to look like it did as it came out of the camera.

The game will last 4 Days (96 hrs) and whoever can produce the best edited image (as judged by me) will be picked and it'll be their turn to post their unedited picture for all of us to take a crack at.

The participants must have their "Image Editing OK" turned on and they must provide at least a simple breakdown of how they edited the image, some entrants are a little vague on this point, please give us all details so we can learn and share tips. For instance if you use the unsharp mask tool or Smart Sharpen, provide us with the adjustments you used so others can try them out.

You can post multiple images, but the first image you post will be the one that is judged - all other images will be considered for knowledge and tip use only.

Also, please keep all comments, be they positive or negative, to yourself until after the game has ended.


THANK YOU

New layer, color levels and curves, BW convertion, played with colors in BW, Opacity58%, eraser on t shirts , new crop, resize

Awesome photo as is.

So why do so much work. PH Fashion preset in lightroom "definitely not winning this b&A haha."

Also a crop

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Lightroom 3
Horizontal crop, Thirds overlay: place children to fill in the center third
Vertical crop, Golden Ratio overlay: place children to fill bottom 1.5 area
Luminance Smoothing: +25
Luminance Detail: -25
Vignette Style, Color Overlay: Amount -50, Roundness +50, Feather +25
Tint +10
Temperature +5
Resized back to 1024 wide

vishnu- very creative, I like the way it turned out.
bigapple- I'm not sold on the frame & it seems quite yellow, otherwise nice edit.
surgeonhawkeye- this is how I should have shot it, I like the crop, I'm not one for selective color, although I B&W'd my version too & the kids just get lost in the image... so maybe in this picture its necessary
T3- altough I like a vertical crop better... making it wider gives this a 'cinematic' look, almost a clip out of 'stand by me' or something.

Well Done everyone , I myself was unsure how to process this photo, I had a look I was going for when I shot it when I went for a walk w/ my kids.

T3 - take it away

Here's my try. Added Soft Light Layer and a Hue/Saturation layer, cropped.

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

Well done everyone ! Congrats to T3 !

I had one working but couldn't get-R-done in time due to some unrelated issues. Oh well.

I didn't want to just delete it, so I'll post it up unfinished anyhow !

I made the bubble in Paint Shop Pro 8 along with some layers and masking.
I know, PSP 8 is old school but it is really easy to make certain special effects with.

Oh well, so here is the unfinished idea I going after:

-Douglas- wrote in post #12193581
Well done everyone ! Congrats to T3 !

I had one working but couldn't get-R-done in time due to some unrelated issues. Oh well.

I didn't want to just delete it, so I'll post it up unfinished anyhow !

I made the bubble in Paint Shop Pro 8 along with some layers and masking.
I know, PSP 8 is old school but it is really easy to make certain special effects with.

Oh well, so here is the unfinished idea I going after:

Douglas that would have been a total win, I love creative edits, that is awesome... love the bubble. I wish time would have worked out.

Thanks, wasn't consciously going for a cinematic look so much as just trying to pull the viewer's eyes to the main subject in the photo. But, now that I think about it, directors and editors are likely trying to do the same thing.

Also, #355 is up.

Big Apple Photography wrote in post #12170297
Thank you Douglas.

You're welcome and I hope those that where having fun making comments and posting up their edits don't get discouraged from entering again. I like to have fun and joke around too, but---proper time and place!

CDWphotography wrote in post #12181342
Awesome photo as is.

+ 1

Lore wrote in post #12193679
Douglas that would have been a total win, I love creative edits, that is awesome... love the bubble. I wish time would have worked out.

Awww thank you Lore . I had a lot of fun with it. I also enjoy, and look forward to, seeing what you come with as well in theses great POTN comps! Some very creative stuff IMHO.