A "before & after" thread?

kjt

I haven't played with photoshop in a few months now. It feels weird yet homely!

Original Shot



Finished HDR shot

Sir Gallagher

This is a shot of my two friends who decided to go on a little skip and a run through a field by the cliffs of moher.



I've just gotten into photography and processing over the last few months so i'm still experimenting here and there, this was one of my first tries at using textures and i was pretty happy with it.



I started off by cloning out my pals' homo-erotic skipping, then layered over the below texture lessening the effect using a mask. I then converted it to b&w and had a little mess around with the levels to achieve that old photograph look, i was happy enough with the result. One thing i will say to anyone just starting out with processing is that there's heaps of useful tutorials on youtube for any effect you wish to achieve in photoshop etc.

dryadssaddle

1: I liked the light stream from this


2: but i liked the exposure and red gel light from this


3: I wanted to add these clouds


4: And this is the result

Dublin_Gunner

After some cropping, levels, colours adjustment, curves adjustment, small bit of cloning, some dodging/burning, brightening eyes and bringing the blue eyes out a bit more etc etc

ThOnda

Before



and after

squareballoon

gloobag

tunepimper

Fantastic shot squareballoon, what changes did you make to the shot? Plus what font are you using for your signature?

GalwayMarion

That does look awesome squareballoon!! Have you used NIK efex with a duplex filter? Very dreamy looking photograph now, I love it!

squareballoon

sorry I should have put my settings and editing details.
canon 5D
70-200mm 2.8L

I edited it with a bought action called Coral by Lily.blue It's in colour set one (actions) and include the Honey which is also a fantastic vintage action and then used a texture by Jessica Drossin. I have the texture pack one and love it. They're the only textures i ever use.

tunepimper which signature? I usually use times new roman with a wide spacing

tunepimper

squareballoon wrote: »

tunepimper which signature? I usually use times new roman with a wide spacing

Thanks squareballoon, I was asking about the sig in your earlier shot. Looks good. Thanks for putting up your setting/editing details, excellent shots. TP

ellieswellies

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Original above...edit below....just messed around with analogcolor til it looked right!

pullandbang

Before....



After...


:D:D:D

BrianJD

hi_im_fil wrote: »

This


to this....


More for fun than anything else

Sorry

I know its a year later, but how was this affect done? Looks Brilliant!!

LeoB

squareballoon wrote: »

sorry I should have put my settings and editing details.
canon 5D
70-200mm 2.8L

I edited it with a bought action called Coral by Lily.blue It's in colour set one (actions) and include the Honey which is also a fantastic vintage action and then used a texture by Jessica Drossin. I have the texture pack one and love it. They're the only textures i ever use.

tunepimper which signature? I usually use times new roman with a wide spacing

Really nice photos you have posted. Not over done and yet very effective. Well done.

site designer

Workin on making people beautiful, Cowen just really for laughs






A more serious attempt, using liquefy tool, Gaussian blur and high pass filter and some layer effects, its all about keeping the texture.




This was quite a challenge, as I had too pretty much redesign 60% of his face from the skin he had, same tricks as before, except using lots of clone tool beforehand and a few other secret tricks.

squareballoon

crikey! what happened to yer man's ear??

eas

squareballoon wrote: »

crikey! what happened to yer man's ear??

Is that the guy who people kept mistaking for an ashtray?

site designer

not sure just a random picture from google images, looks like he got kicked in the head a few times,

PeterCo

wow, some really amazing pictures here. Fantastic. Bookmarked

WheresMyCamera?

Thought I'd have a go at this thread! I'm really not that go at all this pp lark. I try to keep it as simple as possible so as to keep the image from looking altered. I really try to get as much right in camera when I shoot.



Edited in Lightroom.
Converted to B&W
Increased the Black point and contrast.
Smoothed out the skin a little.
Desaturated the eyes then brightened them a touch.
Sharpened the hair, eyebrows, eyelashes and irises.
Transfered into Photoshop to clean up the background using the dodge tool at 10% on highlights.
Then noticed the small bit of leg sticking up in the bottom left corner on the image and slapped myself on the forhead!:o

Old Perry

Great thread this, got some really useful info from some of the posts, heres two of mine, nothin really special in the PP but it wasn easy getin the shot with the marhsals standin one side of the frame and spectators on the other so decided to add a bit motion to it myself :cool:

Before DSC_0079.JPG After DSC_0079a.jpg

Before DSC_0056.JPG After DSC_0056 copy.jpg

GalwayMarion

I love this thread! I thought I'd enter a contribution as well. It is the lovely Railway Station in Athenry. This is the before pic



And below is the one after I added some Victorian people and a train. All stock courtesy of AngelusKnight, Rammkitty, Inspyredtash and Auroradreams on Deviantart, and all other stuff like overlay textures and grunge brushes are my own resources. I like how this little station looks a lot, so I thought I'd emphasize the Victorian looks a bit by giving it a grunge look. After all the tweaking I converted to a sepia tint with an adjustment layer, so I could paint back in a bit of the colour. Hope you like it!
Cheers, Marion

kjt

Super work Marion!!!

squareballoon

wow, that's fantastic Marion!

GalwayMarion

Many thanks, I am glad you like it!!

eas

Here's a before / after /after after.

squareballoon

that's really fantastic, eas. Would you be willing to share how you did the BW?

eas

Hi Lynn,

Used the custom BnW mixer in lightroom then into PS. Emphasize the wrinkles using a darken multiply adjustment layer. Eyes where done again by copying main layer and setting to screen mode, inverted the layer mask, painted the eyes back in and tweaked opacity until they fit OK.

Hope that's helpful.

dinneenp

eas wrote: »

Hi Lynn,

Used the custom BnW mixer in lightroom then into PS. Emphasize the wrinkles using a darken multiply adjustment layer. Eyes where done again by copying main layer and setting to screen mode, inverted the layer mask, painted the eyes back in and tweaked opacity until they fit OK.

Hope that's helpful.

Is that all the changes or just to B&W?
I'm interested to know how you made the first changes?
great pictures, really stand out (after 1st change)
Thanks,
pa.

Promac

I really like the colour one in the middle - care to share on that one? Cheers.

Mjollnir

The road to South Lake, near Bishop, CA, in between thunderstorms. My g/f is juuuuuust visible, walking on the left side of the first bend in the road in a black hoodie.

Before, done by me, in Photoscape.


After, done by her (a pro) w/Lightroom

ditpaintball

Here is one of mine.



Can't remember what I did do it as it was a while ago and I have since changed my processing style. But it would have been.....

Processing:
exposure, brightness, contrast and fill light
Split tones and some saturation boosting

Retouching:
Removed the flash
tighter crop
some dodge and burn on tatoo

dinneenp

before:


after:

BrokenArrows

Mjollnir wrote: »

The road to South Lake, near Bishop, CA, in between thunderstorms. My g/f is juuuuuust visible, walking on the left side of the first bend in the road in a black hoodie.

After, done by her (a pro) w/Lightroom

Really like this.
Love way way my eyes get drawn to the road turning round the mountain.

Cork24

Before
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55118470@N07/5179638341/in/set-72157625274726959/

After

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55118470@N07/5180239172/in/set-72157625274726959/

Couldn't do much with pixels as the photo was taken with iphone.

oshead

The first is the raw from lightroom with the default import settings. The next two is just messing around with tones, grain, textures and stuff.

Dublin_Gunner

Just a pic taken from my camera phone, thought it was quite seasonal and festive, and wanted to give it a sort of old look.

Few contrast / levels adjustments, change to B&W, 2 subtle textures, some gamma correction and arrived at the finished one below. (saving it as jpeg and resizing seems to have accentuated the vignette )

Danbo!

Heres a few of mine

Before


After


Before


After


Before


After

squareballoon

A before and after with the smudge tool in photoshop. Cheesy I know but enjoyable to do.

close-up

[Rasta]

This is a panorama made out of multiple photos taken within 2 mins.
Im not the best with photoshop but im very happy with the outcome.
Original size 15788x2296

Before:




After: I got rid of that telephone pole cause its just nasty.
Some lines are still slightly visible, but its hard to get rid of em perfectly.



edit- heres a larger one so you can see more:
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/905/larger1.jpg

quicklickpaddy

These are my first few attempts at altering photo's (as opposed to just jokes via photoshop)... Let me know what you think!

Before
http://omg.wthax.org/radio1.jpg

After
http://omg.wthax.org/radio_edit_1.jpg

I just cropped it, desaturated the image bar the layer for the knob, used a very severe setting with the curves, boosted the contrast really high and dropped the exposure a little bit.


I don't have the before's of this image on this computer but here's the finished product
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_llfnYf9Sz04/TR5Ip5WoUBI/AAAAAAAACcc/S6YpY8LbM_8/s1600/interruption%2BA4.jpg

The background of the photo was already out of focus but I just duplicated the background layer, covered the duplicate in a thick blur and just used an eraser around the receivers. Then I boosted the saturation and vibrancy with a speckled grain filter on the original background layer... And I think that was it!

EDIT: Sorry for the links - I forgot to resize so they were way too big for the page

ditpaintball

Here is another one, not a direct before and after, but you can see the work done on the sky and the black and white conversion:


Setup Julie 3 by Richie Buttle, on Flickr

Write up: http://www.richie.ie/2010/12/setup-shot-julie/

oshead

The background is a Lastolite 8x7 Hilite with train. On the floor is a 4x4 sheet of perspex. The camera and lens is the 5D MkII and the EF 24-70mm L. The key is an Elinchrom BXRi 500 with a 40 inch shoot through umberella. The props are Lastolite tubs with white covers. One little girl imagining that she's walking on stepping stones in a river.:)

Some things I did before hand.
1. Using a light meter, set the exposure of the background to f11.
2. Again with a meter, set the exposure of the foreground to f7.1.
3. Set my camera's aperture to f5. Notice the apparent seamless white nature of the background.



Some other things I could have done before.
1. An incamera custom white balance using the second image from the set.
2. Flag the bottom of the scene, to have less light hitting the floor at the front. This would've help boost the reflection on the ground.
3. Framed it right???? Though I like to frame wide most of the time.



What I did afterwards in lightroom
1. White balanced the image using the second image, a shot of the expodisk.
2. Dropped the brightness down 5 and the contrast up by 50.
3. Cropped to taste.
4. Used a graduated filter on the bottom of the image to darken the bottom slightly to boost the reflections on the perspex.

Neasha

challengemaster wrote: »

Wasn't my photo to begin with, but probably one of my better edits to date

before



after

haha excellent!

Neasha

ditpaintball wrote: »

Here is one of mine.



Can't remember what I did do it as it was a while ago and I have since changed my processing style. But it would have been.....

Processing:
exposure, brightness, contrast and fill light
Split tones and some saturation boosting

Retouching:
Removed the flash
tighter crop
some dodge and burn on tatoo

Great great great.

Neasha

Final
Self portrait.

mehfesto

challengemaster

22 layers and 2 hours of doing things for I dunno what reason

Kev.

Just spent the last hour or 2 looking through all the photos,some amazing ones in it

I love that when an after photo isn't the best it gets no thanks....