PP Challenge #14

[Shanon]

#20

Here is my first entry into any PP Challenge!

[thm]

#21

My first post in a forum and entry to a PP challenge.
The photo is edited with Capture NX2.

[sound64]

#22

My attempt

[faganj]

#23

[artifact]

#24

First time I've posted anything anywhere. Here goes.



Nick, I did this exclusively in Photoshop. I just upgraded to CS6 Master Collection. I looked at the image a long time before beginning to decide how I wanted to approach it. I noticed a lot of folks cropped out the people on the left of the image as well as the arm of a person on the right. I agreed with this approach but wanted to leave more room between the conductor and the left margin of the image. This meant a lot of time doing selections and cloning. I used the polygonal lasso tool to create boundaries for the cloning process. I followed the lines in the pavement with the lasso tool to create the proper vanishing point and chose either to work inside the selection or to invert the selection to work the outside. Cloning the sides of the train was most difficult since cloning simply duplicates the source size, and I needed to work the image smaller toward the vanishing point. Regarding the color change, I used a hue/saturation adjustment layer and shifted the hue of the red towards the orange yellow color for the engine. Since shifting the hue this way affects all of the image, I masked out the greater portion of the image around the engine to retain the original colors. Once I had achieved most of this, I flattened the image and used the HDR adjustment to get the "HDR" look. Sometimes that process creates an image that is unpleasantly bright, as was the case here, so I used a levels adjustment layer to tone the mid-tones down to a darker rendering. Next, I created a copy of the original image and applied a "glowing edges" effect. I placed that image over the one I had been working on and used a "soft light" blending mode at around 45%. Flattened again and took another copy of the original image, placed it on top of the new one and used a "difference" blending mode at about 35%. I almost forgot to mention that prior to doing any of this, I adjusted the angle of the image plus 3 deg. in the "lens correction: dialog to achieve a more "plumb" look. You have to remember that bit since using any copies of the image, they will need to have the same angle adjustment. Remember, I made small tweaks during the entire process that ultimately affected the outcome, and it is beyond my memory's ability to recount them all, but this basically explains the process. Hope this helps.

Artifact

[wendl]

#25

My entry Big Green

[Njbowman]

#26

kids just want to have fun

[ucci]

#27

Had trouble posting this.

[jacksparrow]

#28

[soosing]

#30

My first post here!

[crystalsummers]

#31

My entry

[Sue Blackeagle]

#32

My First Post, Hopefully Its Going To Work This Time

[encore]

#33

[BSharp]

#34

B Sharp entry:

[Krish]

#35

[lorenzo]

#36

Hope you enjoy this very dark transformation of your image as the black-cloaked, scythe-wielding personification of death leading sheep to their slaughter, I thought about the spectators as the ones going in the locomotive but I had reservations about that and removed the whole lot of them.
Here is the image link... http://tinypic.com/r/2dl3wr5/6
let me know if you have any problems uploading the picture
Cheers
Lorenzo

[anaszilagyi]

#37



First time here!
Ana

[ballybay]

#38

I said, LEFT!!!!

First thing I did was make a new layer, and Multiply at around 30%. Tweaked the color and contrast a bit. Dragged the shot into a snow scene taken on my farm. Used the eraser for a quick removal of extraneous bits. Cloned some snow/branches in front of the train. Then used this tutorial to add falling snow:

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/p...hotoshop-snow/

[Cloneranger]

#39

[DoomedZero]

#40

1st competition entry, thought that the old style wasn't enough, so I added the people as a 'memories of the past' kind of thing.

Train-Edit by DoomedZero, on Flickr