A "before & after" thread?

paudie

Think it's somebody from here, but not sure.
the kevoto blog is quite good for before and after stuff.

Talented with the old PS for sure.

Dublin_Gunner

Here's a couple I had on my mem stick (in work at the mo)

Before

After

Before

After

squareballoon

Love your second car one Longshanks100. It's making me dizzy though. I keep thinking it's a movie.:D

Here's one I did this morning

Anouilh

[IMG][/img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/3703223933_ef5345b89a.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/anouilh/3703223933/


The light was quite dull during a visit to the Talbot Botanic Gardens at Malahide Castle. Some further work in Neat Image could dispel noise, but so far the hoverfly glows more in the cropped image.
[IMG][/img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3462/3704033102_c9730f046f.jpgMG

SuprSi

Bump! Thought I'd bring this thread up as it's a brilliant resource for finding out what has been done to achieve the final image.

.Longshanks.

Original straight from the camera (resized)


First edit


Re-edited


Convincing?

Editing involved first using the clone tool to remove the arm of the rig. This was really difficult to get right (and real looking). Done that a few weeks ago, but this evening i had a go at dropping in a new background.
I used this one --> click as it was the first large sized image i found that had roughly the right orientation. When i was happy i had right bit of the building selected i then used the radial blur to give the motion effect

SuprSi

That looks really well, completely convincing. Very interesting to see how you do it too. In one of your earlier posts you mentioned taking three different shots, with different exposures. Do you take these at the same time, or do you take the shot, change the settings, take the next, etc, etc? What if it's a moving target?

.Longshanks.

SuprSi wrote: »

That looks really well, completely convincing. Very interesting to see how you do it too. In one of your earlier posts you mentioned taking three different shots, with different exposures. Do you take these at the same time, or do you take the shot, change the settings, take the next, etc, etc? What if it's a moving target?

Thanks. This shot was a single exposure - although for every good one i got that evening there was 20 ready for the recycle bin!
Each shot was a 2 to 6 second exposure to give the blur - depending on how the light was fading

gary82

I'd Posted this in a thread a while ago but might be of interest to people here...

Before



After



Edits
Stitched in Microsoft ICE
Cropped to a clean edge.
HDR'd in Photomatix then contrast of output increase a bit.

SuprSi

Can I ask how long it took you to take the original shots, and if cloud movement was something to look out for? The finished product looks stunning.

gary82

Took about 20minutes as it was taken from a cathedral spire - which didn't have one clear view - had to take shots of out little turret windows to get the 270deg sweep (much of which I ended up cropping out). Didn't have to touch up the clouds so nope movement didn't seem to be a problem. Clouds are easy to clone if needs be though.

oshead

Have you got the full size picture on line? I'd like to see it.

David OS

Morrisseeee

I was looking for an Ubuntu wallpaper!

From this :



to this :

SuprSi

Wow - how did you get that effect?

Morrisseeee

^^

Wow - how did you get that effect?

I did it in stages: (using Photoshop):

Anouilh

Before... contented, if somewhat damp, Currawong:


[IMG][/img]

After... scary icon of fear

oshead

I used a whole new colour correction method on this one. The first one is converted straight from the raw file. I just resized it. The second one was imported into lightroom to catalog it. Then opened up in Photoshop without making any adjustments in lightroom.

These are the 3 main steps I did to complete it.

#1 Added a curve and darkened the green and red channels a fraction. Then ran the command to Adjust Shadows/Highlights. Flattened the image.

#2. Duplicated the BG, switched to the blue channel and replaced it with the red channel using the Apply Image command. To add more contrast to the image, I switched to the red channel and added a curves adjustment to it. Then switched to the green and added a curves adjustment to that too. Set the duplicate layers mode to luminosity.

#3. Then set the image to LAB mode. Choose Not flatten from the dialog box. Then flattened the image. :rolleyes: Duplicated the BG and set the duplicated layer to multiply. Added a layer mask to the top layer then clicked the apply image command and clicked OK. Using a curves adjustment I lightened the layer mask a little. Lastly and most bizarrely, I added a Gausian Blur to the layer mask to sharpen the image. Converted it back to RGB added a sig, all done.

I think I achieved a more vibrant colour realistic image.

David OS

maggie797

i am a complete beginner but i am really interested in photograhy

beforecanon shots 012.JPG

to aftercanon shots 012 - Copy.JPG

MagicMarker

Before



After

Daz R1

Ok a little humor
Before


After - Printed for her bday


First attempt at some serious Photoshop !

lafors

After some inspiring posts by Longshanks I decided to give the PP a go myself.
My first go, I started out with this.......


And did a bit in photoshop and ended up with this,


I made a mistake with it which I'm going to try to fix later...

.Longshanks.

lafors wrote: »

After some inspiring posts by Longshanks I decided to give the PP a go myself.
My first go, I started out with this.......
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2391/3541292506_e14fb6de17_b.jpg

And did a bit in photoshop and ended up with this,
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/3761039657_f0e4aab484_b.jpg

Good work!

lafors wrote: »

I made a mistake with it which I'm going to try to fix later...

Brake caliper or disk shouldn't be moving

lafors

Longshanks100 wrote: »

Brake caliper or disk shouldn't be moving

Exactly

Brian

Is that
effect acheived just by radial blur?

PaulieC

Longshanks100 wrote: »

Brake caliper or disk shouldn't be moving

Surely the disk would be moving, no?

lafors

Baza210 wrote: »

Is that
effect acheived just by radial blur?

Sort of,

I made a B&W layer
Picked the yellow caliper and porsche symbol out of the original layer
Merged these onto the B&W layer
Render/lighting effects/spotlight, set it up the way I liked
Selected wheel and deselected caliper (this time )
Applied a radial blur of 2
Inverted selection (excluding the caliper) and applied a motion blur of 5 px
Unsharpen Mask of 150% 1.2px
Canvas size of of 115% with black background.
Its really not that difficult, I would be a novice at best, I just played around with different tools to see what they did.

Here's the one with the right bits moving

Paddy@CIRL

Original :


Colour / Levels post work :


The rear 1/4 of the car wasn't sharp enough so I dropped in the rear from this shot (also same colour work as above) :


Finished :

lafors

One last one before I go home.....very productive day in work today

Before,


Tried to make it as dark as I could without overdoing it. As you can see my cloning needs a lot of work, and I like the B&W + colour bits look.
After,

Ghost Train

Before


after


not a recent photo, bank was flooded near the water, cropped and desaturated, maybe some slight adjustment of levels

honerbright

I like the after there, Ghost Train!

Before


After:


I took one RAW photo* and created 3 pictures with different exposures in my RAW editor (-2, 0, +2) and then merged them together in Photomatrix (HDR creator) and fiddled with the settings.

*It took 15 million attempts to even get the one I ended up using. Either the sky was a white mess, or everything else was black. Blah.

oshead

Highkey test.....

I used the dodge tool set on the highlights @ 10% to make the whites brilliant white. Added a little curve using Guy Gowan method. Then USM a little.

mrmac

That looks great oshead, really makes a difference.
What did you use for the shiny floor?

oshead

mrmac wrote: »

That looks great oshead, really makes a difference.
What did you use for the shiny floor?

I bought a 4x4' sheet of perspex from B&Q and painted the underside of it white. You can just about see the back edge of it. The seamless white background is a 13x7' roll of lino painted matte white on the underside of it.

Here's the setup. The image above was taken with one light on the bg and another on the subject. I plan to have two bg lights in the future. Should have them by the end of next week. Flashes are triggered using a couple of Elinchrom Skyports.

keps

BEFORE





AFTER





(in between)

PaulieC

before


after

dinneenp

I see what you're trying to do but the girls faces look like they have factor 200 on them- too white.

faceman

This thread is fantastic, some amazing work on it. I think i will be doing some Photoshopping later!

PaulieC

dinneenp wrote: »

I see what you're trying to do but the girls faces look like they have factor 200 on them- too white.

I was going for the high fashion look

theboat

I'm completely new to photo editing software (literally just downloaded GIMP today), so I'm not too sure exactly what I did or why I did it!

Before:


After:


Pretty much just messed around with the contrast, saturation and hue etc. Didn't go into different layers or anything yet...

monomer

scanned and photoshopped......

Paddy@CIRL

Before:


After:

Tallon

Forgot about this thread...

Did this back in the day with PS7

Thats my pops in the back left

oshead

Those two got me thinking ..... here's one I did from my communion.

daycent

You're showing your age now oshead!:P

oshead

daycent wrote: »

You're showing your age now oshead!:P

Lol. Not too bad @ 40 years young. Thats me in the middle, second row from the back with the blond hair.

honerbright

Think I posted a version of the original over on the Random photo thread some time ago. Anyway I can't sleep (and dreading my 10 hour shift at work tomorrow ) so I thought I'd attempt to remove Cinnamons leash :P

Before:

After:


Just a bit of the ol' clone stamp tool. And a bit of contrast adjustment and curves etc.

kjt

Did a real quick one last night:



Image info on flickr

daycent

LOL at the perve in the first one!

mayordenis

the unslantaning

Ballyman

daycent wrote: »

LOL at the perve in the first one!

So if you saw a model in a bikini, with a large softbox pointed at her, a camera and someone else holding a reflector you would continue with your head in the air and not even peek a glance to see what was going on???

You're a better man than me!