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Before & After #302

 
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Jul 27, 2010 20:40 |  #1

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

Here's the breakdown of the game. I will post a picture, re-sized to exactly 1024 pixels maximum on the long side. Outside of being re-sized 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 #303".

This Before and After will end Friday Night @ 8:30pm CST. - Enjoy and Good Luck

My Daughter is 6 but this is one of my favorite shots from when she was smaller when she was playing with a bin of hats.

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Jul 28, 2010 16:13 |  #2

Great capture Lore

Opened in ACR and tweaked exposure and highlight recovery, vibrance
Opened in CS4. Duplicated background
Left crop and levels and didn't think colour needed any work.
Put into screen mode and copied eyes onto new layer. Changed back to normal mode and adjusted opacity of eyes to 50% just to make them a bit lighter than the originals.
High pass filter sharpen then gaussian blur and painted back the sharpness in the eyes, lips, nose and hair.
CTRL/ALT/SHIFT/E then further gaussian blur on the turquoise background. Add stroke in white and black.


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Jul 29, 2010 13:07 as a reply to  @ NigelD's post |  #3

changed the background a little
added some contrast and select sharpening and a little touch up on the eyes and skin.

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Jul 29, 2010 18:47 |  #4

Duplicate layer, Color in the eyes, adjust curve color, some change in the bg.


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Jul 31, 2010 22:44 as a reply to  @ surgeonhawkeye's post |  #5

Sorry for being so late on this, things have been pretty crazy here... nothing bad, just busy ;)

Sorry no full on critiques this time around

Palladium this round goes to you! :cool: It's a really nice clean edit & the change in background really offers alot to the shot.

well done everyone. next time I'll have to put up something more challenging perhaps... maybe that was why there was so little participation this time around OR we are just all busy in our lives right now ;) kind of like me being late ending this B&A :lol:


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Aug 01, 2010 05:59 |  #6

Well done Palladium.


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Aug 01, 2010 18:46 |  #7

NigelD wrote in post #10640622 (external link)
Well done Palladium.

Thanks just check in - look for Before #303 here

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