Random Photo Part VII DO NOT QUOTE PHOTOS & < 800px PLEASE!

le_girl · 22-12-2008 3:11pm

Rhyme wrote: »

Loving your processing style as well.

How did you achieve the effect on some of the 'Lonely Tree' pictures? This one in particular; http://www.flickr.com/photos/le_girl/3120603541/

Curiosity is getting the better of me.

Thanks.

Thanks.

I'll write up a mini tutorial for that one and post it later.

Marlise · 22-12-2008 3:40pm

Hope I am doing this right.. first post..

Rhyme · 22-12-2008 3:50pm

le_girl wrote: »

Thanks. I'll write up a mini tutorial for that one and post it later.

Thank you, much appreciated.

I've always wanted to try out tweaking some of my photographs and playing with a somewhat 'unnatural' look. HDR, making adjustments in Photoshop and such.

le_girl · 22-12-2008 5:05pm

Rhyme wrote: »

Thank you, much appreciated.

I've always wanted to try out tweaking some of my photographs and playing with a somewhat 'unnatural' look. HDR, making adjustments in Photoshop and such.

I hope this makes some kind of sense, apologies if it's too long and I hope the screenshots work...

Original photo:
bigsuroriginal.png?t=1229961811

1. new adjustment layer > selective colour

For greens, set cyan to -100.

I'll just type out the rest:

Cyans:
Cyan – 50
Yellow +20

Blues:
Yellow +100

Whites:
Yellow +35

Neutrals:
Cyan -10
Magenta -10
Yellow +8

Blacks:
Black +50

Now looks like this:

2. Layer > Flatten image

3. Filter > Render > Lighting Effects
lightingeffects.png?t=1229961436

Now looks like this:
bigsur3.png?t=1229961520

4. new adjustment layer > curves
I play around with the points on the curve until I'm happy. This one looked like this:
curves.png?t=1229961538

Now looks like this:
bigsur4.png?t=1229961561

5. Layer > Flatten image

That's it really. Serious rush job so I hope it all makes sense. If I had more time I'd make the foreground darker and the whole thing a bit less... yellow but I hope you get the idea.

I learned by doing tutorials like this:
http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/photoshop_vintage_effect/
And using actions like these:
http://night-fate.deviantart.com/art/photoshop-actions-62-97346794
http://night-fate.deviantart.com/art/photoshop-actions-53-93209105
and working through each step to see how it was done, mess around with the values and colours before having a go by myself. Each action is like a mini tutorial in itself really. I don't know how everyone else figures out this stuff but I found that playing around with actions and tutorials made PS far less daunting.

John · 22-12-2008 5:23pm

AnimalRights wrote: »

Tonights gig in Doran's

The one of the drummer is deadly.

melekalikimaka · 22-12-2008 5:43pm

TPD · 22-12-2008 5:56pm

@le_girl: Thanks for that tutorial, I was wondering how you did yours too. Something that I've found very useful in photoshop is the 'new layer from visible' shortcut - making a new layer from what you can see, and placing it on top of everything. It's like flattening image but you keep all of the old information too.

The shortcut is ctrl+alt+shift+e

If you already knew and used flatten image for other reasons, apologies :P

Thanks again.

Edit: Just realised you're on a mac. I don't know the equivalent shortcut. Woops

le_girl · 22-12-2008 6:13pm

TPD wrote: »

@le_girl: Thanks for that tutorial, I was wondering how you did yours too. Something that I've found very useful in photoshop is the 'new layer from visible' shortcut - making a new layer from what you can see, and placing it on top of everything. It's like flattening image but you keep all of the old information too.

The shortcut is ctrl+alt+shift+e

If you already knew and used flatten image for other reasons, apologies :P

Thanks again.

Edit: Just realised you're on a mac. I don't know the equivalent shortcut. Woops

Figured out the mac equivalent - thanks, that'll be really handy!

Rhyme · 22-12-2008 6:49pm

Thanks le_girl, much appreciated. My knowledge of layers and the manipulation of them ends with editing elements within a picture, this sort of stuff will help a lot as long as i practice.

I owe you one.

challengemaster · 22-12-2008 8:59pm

Pivot_Al · 22-12-2008 9:05pm

Sorrento at dawn

daycent · 22-12-2008 9:26pm

Benster · 22-12-2008 11:44pm

Over a month late, but what the heck... One from the war memorial in Armagh.

Pivot_Al · 22-12-2008 11:48pm

lovely shot-very creative

RoryW · 23-12-2008 12:41am

Congrats to Tommie whose photo "Financial Claus" featured on page 16 of The Irish Times Gallery Supplement today

fluffyVW · 23-12-2008 2:48am

Love that shot daycent!!!

Borderfox · 23-12-2008 4:28am

delly · 23-12-2008 11:44am

Being messing around with this whole bokeh malarkey for the first time and got a couple of good results from about 200 shots. Having tried lots of different settings its good to see how a small change effects the picture.