Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

bumpintheroad wrote in post #18245906
Open in PS and selected all the water without the rocks (that took a while) and applied motion blur in 3 directions.

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Like it, very well done

A beautiful image Ryan. I use to play a lot of basketball at Laguna Beach, this reminded me of the beautiful sunsets I use to see there with so many beautiful hue tones. So since your in the OC, why not. LR to PS and into Topaz Denoise, back to PS, levels with a mask to isolate the foreground, didn't want to totally unsaturate the rocks, as there is glow from the sunset hitting them. 2 layers of saturation and then onto curves for contrast and vignette and selective sharpening . Then into Picasa for border and text.

So...do I "judge" tomorrow?

01Ryan10 wrote in post #18250896
So...do I "judge" tomorrow?

Yes, give everyone one week to get their entries in.

There were a lot of great efforts in this week's challenge. I appreciate the time and effort that I know all of you put in as well. Almost all of them were a close variation to the my own final image that can be seen in the link below...

https://500px.com …rom=user&user_i​d=20875607


In the end I am giving the weekly award to Mozes. I like that he went a different direction with an overall different hue. Thank you all for your efforts.

Here's a couple of edits.

cropped a little, made basic adjustments, converted to b&w, added a radial filter over the rider to darken background a little bit, a little adj brush lighten his face a little, to bring out the suck factor I would imagine goes with peddling a muddy road (only way I would be smiling would be with a motor and some knobbies) moved to PS for a bit of sharpening, thats about it

Dropped clarity, added fog and speckles, cropped.
Just a quick little edit for a thread bump!

DogDaze wrote in post #18256969
cropped a little, made basic adjustments, converted to b&w, added a radial filter over the rider to darken background a little bit, a little adj brush lighten his face a little, to bring out the suck factor I would imagine goes with peddling a muddy road (only way I would be smiling would be with a motor and some knobbies) moved to PS for a bit of sharpening, thats about it

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Congrats DogDaze, i like what you have done

Its up to you for a new image

Well thank you, I'll get one up here tonight

Here is the next picture up to edit. I'll pick a winner on 2-6

This is the Japanese friendship garden in Houston Tx. Looking a bit thin for the winter time of year

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 (1 entry per week)
  
  
• 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)

IMAGE LINK: https://photos.smugmug​.com …/i-sF4gHCV-L.jpg&lb=1&s=A

Congrats DogDaze.

These entries are just for fun, not competing to win as I have no remote access to my raws right now.

Set A: processed in GoArt on the iPhone.

And Set B produced in Prisma: