Before & After 529

The game will last 1 week and whoever can produce the best edited image (as judged by me) will be picked as the winner, 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.

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 #530".

Submissions end, Monday, August 4th, 2014 at 7:30pm BST and a winner will be announced.

Here's a link to a RAW file for those who would prefer to use one :-
https://www.dropbox.co​m …n2ay5oqduj1d/DS​CF1476.RAF

Busy producing some masterpieces then - can't wait....

Sharpened and cropped original
Created globes

-Create square selection of whatever size
-Ctrl-J to place selection in new layer
-Select that layer (Ctrl and click on layer thumbnail) and go to Filter>Distort>Spherize
-Use Elliptical Selection tool set to same size as previous square selection to select new sphere
-Ctrl-J to put sphere in new layer (delete previous square layer)
-Add inner glow and drop shadow to new sphere layer
-Move sphere layer if you wish
-Choose Layer>Layer Style>Create Layers to move Drop Shadow and Inner Glow to their own layers
-Move Drop shadows away from objects and scale down, then reduce opacity

Create new layer and grab a very soft brush to paint a white spot on the same place on each globe, then reduce opacity. Make sure the new "light source" and your drop shadows agree with each other.

One entry but a good one - I thought this was very imaginative Mark - thanks and over to you.

Very creative Mark, nice one!
I tried a couple of times to get some creative juices flowing on this one Nigel, but gave up!
I think my imagination is broken for the moment!

Know what you mean Douglas - I wondered if anyone would do just a straight fix and crop.

Thanks, guys. Sort of like winning a one-player poker game. Oh well.

I'll get a new one up shortly.

New one is up.