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Post by katynoelle on Feb 20, 2012 13:34:42 GMT
...now it's called "the dreamy tree". I've fuddled and fuddled with this since the last time I asked you all for input. I fuddled with it for so long that I kind of couldn't tell what I thought about it. The first one that I had shown you was a version that Jiro had edited for me, last June. He had taken out the looming tree shadows in the background and simplified or 'cleaned up' the image in general. The only thing about doing that is that it kind of flattened and smoothed out the subtle variations in the fog. Then, when I worked on it, again, last month, I tried to clean the original up on my own. I gave up, thinking that it was too messy but, now, going back to it - perhaps, not. What do you guys see? Jiro's cleaned up version with my editing on top:  My cleaned up version:  I don't know how to bring out the foreground like I did before, though - everything that I try makes it look over manipulated and damaged. |
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Post by DonS on Feb 20, 2012 14:10:00 GMT
Sorry Katy, I still like Jiro's version.. ;D
Yours is too bright on the upper left corner...
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Post by Stevewebb on Feb 20, 2012 14:32:28 GMT
This would make a good PP challenge for us all to have a go at and record our workflow. Can you post the SOOC original Katy so we can get an idea of what you have to work with? Sorry, but Jiro's version still looks better to me  |
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Post by katynoelle on Feb 20, 2012 14:47:08 GMT
Thanks, guys! Jiro's version just looks boring to me - but, maybe, that's because I've seen it too much. (and, wicked deja-vu! but, I KNOW that I had this very same situation and conversation with an image, last year.)
It's a jpeg - do you all mind? I'll go get it.
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Post by katynoelle on Feb 20, 2012 14:52:50 GMT
 Will this work? You know, I've been working in RAW since just shortly after I took this image but it's only been in the past week, since I've been going back and revisiting old images, that I've had that epiphany of never going back to jpeg unless necessary. RAW is much more workable! |
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Post by katynoelle on Feb 20, 2012 14:59:52 GMT
Sorry Katy, I still like Jiro's version.. ;D Yours is too bright on the upper left corner... Indeed, Don, it's blown. I just burned it just enough so that the blinky says it's not, anymore. The first is in a wider landscape version, too, btw. |
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Post by Stevewebb on Feb 20, 2012 15:33:06 GMT
OK, here is my effort. Different to your but it may give you some ideas   I started with quite an agressive levels adjustment to increase the blacks and decrease the whites. Then I painted the levels adjustment away on a layer mask on the grass to give an impression of a very soft shadow under the tree. Then i put a blue phot filter layer on, but not as deep a colour as your version. Then selectively burned and dodged parts of the tree to try and give it more depth. Lastly I put some of the fog back in that the first levels adjustment took out by using color efex pro "graduated fog" effect. |
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Post by robnaylor on Feb 20, 2012 15:48:22 GMT
Adjusted Levels Cropped Added magic sunbeams Attachments:
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Post by jeeperman on Feb 20, 2012 16:04:25 GMT
Boy this is going to be a tough one Katy. I like all the edits on their own and Robs magic beams a great! However I am betting these will be just off your vision for this image and I am looking forward to seeing your final version. Persevere.... you will get there but I am affraid I can't be of much here.
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Post by katynoelle on Feb 20, 2012 16:32:37 GMT
Weeeelllll.... I've already got a purple rendition that I like well enough... katysphotojournal.blogspot.com/2012/01/im-still-in-purple-haze-of-january.htmlThe monotone, actually, appeals to me more, though, because I'm looking for surreal. but go for it, guys! The one thing that I know is that I've learned a lot from this image. It might have killed the fresh impact it had on me but it's been an exercise in discernment. Here's the basic fix that Jiro did to the image:  |
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Post by Barry on Feb 20, 2012 18:01:54 GMT
Now I went for a crop, then increased contrast and brightness on foreground and tree, next auto curves and then reduced layer opacity to 33%, then finally pushed the saturation up by 50% on foreground only, and added a 1px border line.  |
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Post by rjbell on Feb 20, 2012 18:37:20 GMT
How did you do the sunbeam? this could come in handy.
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Post by Barry on Feb 20, 2012 18:45:57 GMT
How did you do the sunbeam? this could come in handy. Remember your club is coming to us this year for the battle, so I will be looking out for rays of sun ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by The Wirefox on Feb 20, 2012 18:59:56 GMT
How did you do the sunbeam? this could come in handy. Yeah and step by step so I can covert to Gimpology  |
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Post by maryloveslucy on Feb 20, 2012 19:10:12 GMT
This would make a good PP challenge for us all to have a go at and record our workflow. Can you post the SOOC original Katy so we can get an idea of what you have to work with? Sorry, but Jiro's version still looks better to me Stupid question of the day... do you just copy and save the image from here... or download it?  |
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