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Dec 27, 2009 08:08 |  #1

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 #246".
This is all about having fun so have at it!!

This round ends Wednessday, December 30th at 9:00am EST
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Dec 27, 2009 08:58 |  #2

7 day round instead of the normal 72 hrs?


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Dec 27, 2009 09:11 |  #3

:-) Fixed it Smarty pants!




  
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Dec 27, 2009 11:16 |  #4

Duplicated background, crop, levels adjustment, high pass sharpen, create border, adjust levels on border and flatten


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Dec 27, 2009 11:35 |  #5

Nevermind...got it.




  
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Dec 27, 2009 11:47 as a reply to  @ XoZe's post |  #6

In ACR bumped blacks (4?) and Clarity (20), and recovery (15)
In PS:
- Cropped and upsized
- Cloned out two branches that were on the right hand side
- Ran TRA Prettyizer, blended at 25%
- Shadows/Highlights, +4 Highlights
- Ran a Noise Ninja pass to blur the background and sharpen the bird. Partially masked out some edges that had halos.
- bumped the yellows a small amount on the feet and eye
- USM 75-1-10
- Vignette and border

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Dec 27, 2009 12:26 as a reply to  @ Ocron's post |  #7

CS2 - Crop, Resize, Clone, Levels, Contrast, Color, Blur, Desaturate Tool
Foreground Layer - Shadow/Highlight, USM, Selective Color
Burn Tool, Saturate Tool, Vignette

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Dec 27, 2009 13:36 as a reply to  @ Lore's post |  #8

Icreased Saturation - red channel by 50
Crop
Clone out branches on the right
USM - 300%, .5, 0
Filter->Stylize->Diffuse:Anisotropic


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Dec 27, 2009 19:05 |  #9

Crop, smart sharpen, topaz clean (curly smooth), nick software B&W

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Dec 27, 2009 21:42 |  #10

Duplicate Layer
Unsharp mask 100% at 2 pixels
Duplicate layer
Selective color > Yellow > Cyan +25 - Magenta -5 - yellow -20 - black + 50 - method absolute
Duplicate layer
Curves with input down to 30
Erase area over bird and tree limbs
Flatten
Saturation +25
Lightness +5

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Dec 27, 2009 23:28 |  #11

Crop/Selective color/Selective Sharpen/Clarity/Boost Contrast/Vignette

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Dec 28, 2009 20:45 as a reply to  @ Fred Eric Norris's post |  #12

Tuff picture to get "just" right.
Duplicate, clean up a few rough edges, select background and darken and blur just slightly, also desaturate a little too.dodged and burned the branches and bird just slightly too. Removed unwanted noise and sharpened a little.


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Dec 28, 2009 23:17 |  #13

Crop, dark the background, high pass sharpen, convert to B&W, duo tone

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Dec 28, 2009 23:51 as a reply to  @ bdbox's post |  #14

A couple of filters with Nik Color Efex Pro

1- Indian Summer (to bring in orange/red)
2- Low Key (to darken things up)
3- Darken/Lighten Center (moved the center point of this filter to the bird
4- selective sharpening of the bird and just a bit of the tree


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Dec 29, 2009 17:06 |  #15

-Cropped
-Blurred out the background more to bring more focus to the hawk.
- Played with the contrast and colors to bring them out more
- sharpened

I didn't do very much with it because I didn't think it need it. :)

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