Before & After #241

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

Here's the breakdown of the game. I will post a picture that I choose, resized to exactly 1024 pixels maximum on the long side. Outside of being resized 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 72hrs 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 #242".
This is all about having fun so have at it!!
This round ends Monday, December 14th at 9:00pm CST.

This little fellow has been on our deck for 2 years in this very state... my children lovingly refer to him as Lucius the Headless Gnome

Full Size Link http://www.eideticmemo​ries.com/IMG_9417.jpg

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Poor fella !

Adjust contrast, hue and saturation,
add smart sharpen,
Dodge and burn
Crop

cropped, cloned wood onto blown-out fence rails, levels, warm filter, saturation, USM, final crop.

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I just adjusted the curve to bring down the luminance and applied the default cartoon and bump filters in gimp, and of course a crop.

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In ACR: +13 Temp, +3 Tint, -.25 Exposure, +65 Recovery, +32 Blacks, +24 Contrast, -12 Red Luminance (for the hat)

In PS: Cropped, Shadows/Highlights (+8 highlights), USM

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My effort.......

PS CS4 Cropped Image, Applied an OnOne Filter "Illustrative Edge", sharpen with USM and add Vignette

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Crop, add another snow photo under the current layer, layer mask
black & white, make the border.

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Straightened and cropped. Adjusted levels in LAB mode. Painted in highlights on eyes and lightened pupils. Put a bit more white on the eyebrows to accentuate them. High pass sharpen

sorry about the delay, ... I wrote out an individual critique on EACH photo as I like to do & I hit submit reply & firefox closed on me *sigh* so I type this as I clench my teeth in frustration... fantastic edits everyone

I'm going to give this one to bdbox, take it away

BTW, this is how I edited Lucius the headless Gnome when I shared him with my Family & Friends on Facebook the day I started this B&A

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Thank you Lore, and well done everyone.

Now the new #242 is up.

Nice job bdbox. It was different and looked great.