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Oct 05, 2013 21:27 |  #1

The game will last 7 days 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. Feel free to comment and/or ask questions at any time. This is a good competition for learning new methods, so let's make it a bit more dynamic. I will be judging edits, not comments. Feel free to comment on the original image as well.

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 #492".

Submissions end, Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 11:59pm (Pacific Standard Time) and a winner will be announced.

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I've been taking shots of my nephews playing mid-day soccer...it's been a struggle editing...so i'm hoping to gain some tips here :)

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Oct 05, 2013 21:48 |  #2

The link is not updated (points to the milk way raw file). You have to copy past the text of the link to get the right file.


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Oct 06, 2013 01:22 |  #3

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Saturation +2
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Oct 07, 2013 15:41 |  #4

Opened in Camera Raw and adjusted exposure, whites, shadows and highlights. Cropped, sharpened, then opened in CS6. Duplicated BG then made B&W conversion and put into soft light mode. Then did HDR toning and desaturated. Then painted back tongue in layer mask and smart sharpened to finish.

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Oct 07, 2013 16:47 |  #5

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Lightroom- white balance and slight clarity bump (LR3).

PS- Figured i would use this challenge to play with luminosity masks. So, in RGB channel select "Control alt 2" to select highs (only command i know for that) :) then "control shift i" to inverse selection giving me the darks. Play with curves/exposure for a fine tuned "fill" approach. This way is probably stupid/unnecessary with the more recent versions of lightroom. I have no idea though. :)
Cloned out greenshirtbokehballgir​l, and built up the part of the kids leg that was lost when i straightened the horizon.

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Oct 08, 2013 04:05 as a reply to  @ Dawicka2's post |  #6

Edit in LR4
straighten and crop
adjust blk and whi points
up color temp slightly
increase contrast and clarity
raised shadows
selective shadow raised on faces
desaturate porta john
slight vignette

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Oct 08, 2013 14:04 |  #7

I took the picture and lowered the brightness, raised the contrast, raised blacks, raised vibrance, dropped the keylight a bit, adjusted highlights and shadows, cropped, messed with the brightness/contrast/re​nder lighting....This was difficult and I sort of gave up trying to do what I was aiming for but it doesn't look bad! :P

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Harder than it looks, awesome work colt4570, would have loved to see it be a bit darker and have some nice vibrant colors, I'll look back on this thread for my next shoot :)

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Oct 08, 2013 15:53 |  #8

Cropped to main subject
HDR toning
Dup layer and apply charcoal sketch filter, then reduce opacity of layer
Add larger base layer and fill with color
Layer mask in stats square
text tool for stats and name and team
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Oct 11, 2013 09:23 |  #9

I have started from Six6Sicks conversion. So if by any chance this one wins (which is highly improbable) I'll let him continue.

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Oct 13, 2013 12:07 |  #10

alright everyone some really good entries...i liked the fun ones with the pro player, and the player card aspect...may have to attempt some of that...for me though it came down to six6sick, and colt4570...and the winner is Colt4570, i think the desaturated porta-potty was the kicker...


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Oct 13, 2013 12:16 |  #11

Lol I didn't even notice that! Mice work colt!


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Oct 13, 2013 14:09 |  #12

DreDaze wrote in post #16367639 (external link)
i think the desaturated porta-potty was the kicker...

there is a soccer joke in there somewhere.
Fun image to play with.
Nice work colt!
Clean edit as well six6sicks!


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Oct 14, 2013 16:54 as a reply to  @ Dawicka2's post |  #13

Thanks DreDaze! All cool edits guys, and I like that pro player yb98, lol. I'll get a new one up in a few.


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Oct 14, 2013 20:26 as a reply to  @ Colt4570's post |  #14

Sorry for the delay. Photo is up!


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