lewiz (1293) 2007-11-09 12:23:00

Hi Hadi,

Simple channel mixer to convert to B&W in the GIMP
Burned through some detail in the male silhouette (very quick)

Hope you like it

Lewis

lewiz (1293) 2007-09-04 09:14:27

Hello!

I saw this and knew it could work in black and white.

Here's a crop that I then converted with the channel mixer.

Just a case of adjusting the channels until you get a nice result.

As this is a very quick WS, there is lots of nasty stuff along the region where the trees join the sky -- with more time and care (and a higher resolution original) this can be avoided.

Hope you like it :)

Lewis

lewiz (1293) 2007-09-03 10:03:04

Hi Alex,

This was a workshop that I did very quickly... obviously given a little more time, and working from a higher resolution image, we could achieve a lot more.

I converted to black and white using the channel mixer to pick the most contrasty colours.

I then adjusted the colour curves to really darken the mountain further.

Final step was to use the dodge/burn tool to pick out the snow detail in the mountain and in the background interest.

Unfortunately the person at the top suffered in my quick edit... but as I mentioned earlier, with an original high-res image, a bit more time and care and this could be done pretty nicely :)

lewiz (1293) 2007-08-28 10:11:54

Hi Daniel,

As requested here is a very quick workshop where I have increased the luminosity of the man's face and arm using the dodge/burn tool in Photoshop.

I used a feathered brush and 20% opacity to quickly lighten up his face. It seems that he was partly in shadow and this just helps reduce the contrast of the scene.

Thanks a lot :)

Lewis.

lewiz (1293) 2007-06-21 13:46:26

Bump up of contrast and very quick (read: bad) burning (or dodging?) of the hills to bring back some detail

I actually went a bit far here... lots of detail has been lost, which can easily be preserved by taking more time/care over the job :)

lewiz (1293) 2007-06-21 13:35:14

crop, curves/levels, a little sharpening and a border

lewiz (1293) 2007-06-13 18:28:19

Many people suggested increasing the contrast, so here is a version with bumped contrast.

I'm in two minds about it... in some ways I do prefer it, but in others I liked the subtlety of the original...

lewiz (1293) 2006-04-29 14:55:21

Hi,

- cropped to 16x9
- cloned out the vertical pipe
- channel mixer to B&W conversion
- dodged the blue jacket to make it lighter
- USM to sharpen
- a cute border

Hope you like this :)

lewiz (1293) 2006-04-27 07:03:37

This is the version I producing using Bibble. Lots more saturation.

Better or worse?

lewiz (1293) 2006-04-26 22:18:21

- cropped away nasty old frame
- cloned out CCD dirt
- cloned out fisherman in distance and wood to the right (also some stuff to the left)
- increased contrast by adjusting curves
- dodged lady
- increased yellow channel saturation (for her dress)
- marginally increased saturation of all colours for water
- added nicer border

I hope you like the changes :)