johnnyh (637) 2006-02-16 10:25:16

Hi John I sharpened slighly and put a border on hope you like regards John.

binaural (292) 2004-06-04 05:25:23

I accented the white waves a bit with the curves tool and then added a tiny bit of contrast back.

AdrianW (2241) 2003-11-09 19:36:18

Purpose of this Workshop: Bring out shadow detail, attempt to correct some distortion, and improve overall exposure uniformity.

First step: Contrast Masking to bring out shadow detail and increase exposure uniformity. NewLayerViaCopy. Desaturate. Invert. Blur/Gaussian 19px. Used a soft edged eraser to reduce the effect slightly (mainly on the flowers and the building) Merge mode Overlay 100%.

To correct the perspective distortion I selected the whole image and used Transform/Skew to pull the top left corner further left and the top right corner up a little. Selected the lighthouse using Rectangular Marquee, Transform/Skew to pull the top right corner up.

Finally selected everything except the sky with a feathered Lasso. Converted to LABcolor and selected the brightness channel, then Sharpened at 75% to bring out a little more detail.

I hope you like it :-)

Mrcurtain (421) 2003-10-20 02:44:50

I liked the composition and colors a lot but thought that it could be given a little more "bang" to it so applied a contrast mask to brighten the dark sections.

Applied a contrast mask
- gaussian blur radius 13.

And brightened a bit
- levels center input value 1.1

ninadev (5225) 2003-07-19 20:41:21

As said in my "critique", I think that by cropping halfway between the bird and the top of the shot the bird is not a lost bird in the sky and it becomes part of the scene.

evilren (1395) 2003-07-19 20:09:53

here is what I did..disarture,dodged the lighthouse (too make it a bit more bright),added a layer,blacked it with curves,used history brush on the sky.sharped the front and darkened the edges.. tell me what u think.
daniel

thien (2102) 2003-07-18 23:26:54

Contrast masking to bring up the details in the shadow and cropped a bit on top and bottom. Also add a bit of saturation and contrast.

osado (134) 2003-07-17 04:15:09

The 2 'eyes' in the original takes too much attention to me. Without those eyes it all becomes very abstract. I almost see a person with long hair or a piece of cloth on the head.
What do you think John?

Leo (881) 2003-07-16 23:18:31

John, here is the picture after I ran it through Photoshop. It could be worked further, but I felt this was as far as I wanted to work it to show you the fun of posprocessing pictures.

Regards

Leo / Venezuela

AdrianW (2241) 2003-07-13 21:55:12

Contrast masked version: New layer via copy. Desaturate layer. Invert layer. Gaussian blur 19px. Mix using Overlay. Sharpened at 75%.