The Post Processing Challenge #6

[Donald]

The closing date for entries into this thread is September 20 2011.

The purpose of the challenge is to provide all members with the same image and, with it, an opportunity to explore and develop their post-processing skills and to examine and learn from how they and others approach the task. Although there will be a vote, the idea is not to be competitive, but to engage in a learning process. So, discussions and exchanges of views as we go along, are encouraged.

The culture and values of CiC as embraced by its members makes the need for over-formalisation of procedures & guidelines largely unnecessary. However, we cannot always know who is joining the forum and some formalisation is required, particularly to protect the work of the person who has offered the image for post-processing.

These procedures are:-

* You download the image, process it and then post it back up to this thread.
* Photographs should be posted in this thread before the closing date (don't leave it too late).
* No voting allowed for your own entry.
* Each entrant will be allowed one submission.
* All entrants must work on the file made available for download (at the bottom of this post). Any other image posted into the thread will be deleted.
* Entrants may use appropriately licensed images to assist in the creative process, but the original must remain the basis of the finshed product and the entered image be a representation of that original.
* The image file made available for the challenge will remain the sole property of the person who made it available for the purpose, under a Creative Commons SA Licence. A full copy of the licence can be viewed HERE
* Any person downloading the image offered for editing in this challenge, whether they submit an entry in the challenge or not, is deemed to accept the terms of the licence and to be bound by it.
* A decision to pursue a claim against anyone breaching the terms of the licence shall be a matter solely for the copyright holder; i.e. the member who offered the image for download in this challenge. ‘Cambridge in Colour’ cannot be held responsible or liable for any breach of the Creative Commons SA Licence.

NB - The best way of dealing with this formality is to resolve that the only thing you will do with the image you downloaded is work on it for entry in this challenge and that you WILL NOT use it for any other purpose.

Voting, Choosing the next image file and telling us How You Did It:-
When announced, voting (open to any member) will be by Private Message (PM) to Donald, over a period of two days or so. This will ask you simply to say which you think demonstrates best PP skills and artistic presentation. Automated voting may be introduced at a later stage.

The ‘winner’ of one challenge will be asked to provide an image for the next challenge, or delegate that ‘honour’ to a Mod. Philip, winner of #5, asked the Mods to put up an image for #6

The ‘winner’ will also be invited to tell us what they did (so keep a note).


The photograph for this challenge has been provided by Colin. The DNG file can be located here. The TIFF version here. And the JPEG here.

And what is it? It's...............

Have fun ... and good luck!

[stevewe88]

01

[Dizzy]

02

[shajufx]

03

Moon lady visits the city

[Antonio Correia]

04

[3Wheels]

05

[RonH]

06

Keeping Pussy away from McBird
Though she would be frozen to the bird box dressed like this

[jupiterlush]

07

[Mrgargal]

08

[KTHXBAI]

09



the rope made me do it...

[PhilipM]

10

[ddp4me]

11

Sorry about no picture. Please put up with the dummy. I'll learn soon enough. Let me try this again.

[henry17106]

12

Had to do this quick didn't realize competition was over today

[Donald]

We have a result.

The team of verifiers have been up all night checking and cross-checking the votes and after feeding the data through a bank of computers the result is that the winner of PP Challenge #6 is ..............................................

Steve (Mrgargal)

with

Congratulations to him ... and to everyone else who took part and put their PP skills to the test. It was a close one, with Michael (Image #9) hot on Steve's heels.

Watch this space, as Steve will now be invited to put up a post telling us how he did it.

And PP Challenge #7 will along very soon

[PhilipM]

Congratulations on a great makeover Steve. Excellent PP skills.

[Mrgargal]

Thank you!! I am humbled again. I really Michael (Image #9) would have won this one but I am glad for the votes. I will pull a photo to post in the next day or so.

[KTHXBAI]

Thank you!! I am humbled again. I really Michael (Image #9) would have won this one but I am glad for the votes. I will pull a photo to post in the next day or so.

Thanks! Lets see I can do with your image!

[ddp4me]

Congrats, Steve. Very nicely done!

I would like to know how you did it. I have so much to learn!

[Sam Smith]

Nice job Steve. Great skills.

[Mrgargal]

Darlene,

I will give you a brief description here and if you want more detail send me a PM and I can expand. Using Photoshop cs5, I first selected the lovely model and the rope and making a new layer. I then copied that new layer 6 or 7 times. With each individual layer I rotated the image to provide the appearance of the model at different angles as one experience on a swing. Then aligning the rope at the top I moved the individual layers so the rope appeared to be connected to some locked pivot point. Then I adjusted the opacity of each layer to provide the appearance of multiple photos moving. I kept the center position of the model at 100% opacity to stay as the main focal point or more so the main point in time when the photo was taken. Then it was a matter of balancing the opacity of the layers and how many layers I kept. On the last couple of layers (Right side of the photo) I used the Puppet warp to put some bend in the rope. I tried to think of what the rope would look like if it was actually swinging.