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Originally Posted by powers_brent
What was your process on this one?? Looks great.
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Originally Posted by powers_brent
What was your process on this one?? Looks great.
Just retouched this last night.
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One thing I might have done would be to correct the lens distortion that is noticeable in the windows and the back corner.
Haha at first I didn't even notice the fountain [A] That's some heavy photoshopping....I'm pretty sure I could never have done anything like that [:|]
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Originally Posted by Jan Paalman
Thanks Jan.
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Originally Posted by tkerr
I'm not that skilled.
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Originally Posted by Keith B
You should be able to use ACR to correct that. it should have your Camera and Lens profile to help with those kind of things, or you can do it manually with a simple adjustment of the distortion slider.
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Originally Posted by tkerr
I don't think that's lens distortion -- just perspective (AKA rectilinear) distortion.
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Originally Posted by Daniel Browning
Yeah it is definitely perspective skew. I forget if I was using the 24-70 or 16-35 but it was shot at 27mm and I was up high and tilted down. I tend to like perspective skewing at times so I didn't bother fixing it for myself and since the client didn't mention it so I left it. They just wanted the fountain to look "beautiful". In hind sight I guess that window could have been straightened a little.
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Originally Posted by Keith B
I think you did a great job...just out of curiosity: could you hint a bit to the actions you have made on it? Don't need to know the entire process, but an ideaon how it's been done would be very much appreciated [:D]
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Originally Posted by Jan Paalman
Thanks Jan!
Well I after I tried all the easy stuff I thought might work, I realized I was going to have to do it the hard way.
I copied the layer, inverted the colors then played with the hue&saturation until the rusty sections looked close to the yellowish color the clean sections were. Then I added a layer mask and filled it with black. Then with white as the foreground color I reverse painted over it to fill it with the altered layer. This takes a lot of brush flow and resizing changes to get all the different areas right. It is time consuming but worth it. There were some areas that just out right needed to be repainted so I make a new layer select a color from the clean areas and lightly brush it in. I use some gaussian and motion blurs to make them blend nicely, sometimes create a layer mask a brush it to feather some spots.
To smooth out some of the clunky blue spots I copied the layer, do a heavy dust and scratch + gaussian blur + noise + gaussian blur. Then I add a layer mask fill it with black then paint with white over the problem areas and now you know all my (not so) secrets for fixing skin too.
There was some other "touch" stuff done also to even colors out, like dodging and burning.
My mother in law has this old picture of my father in law in her '67 VW Beetle. In the years it's quite damaged by the elements and a small kid. It was the only copy of that photo and my girlfriend asked me to try to "repair" it, while keeping the vintage look. Here's my edit: (it's not that smooth on 100%, but it's originally a 2*3" photo and that's what I was aiming for again)
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6080/6...70d08b32_z.jpg
Reviving the old man by Jan Paalman, on Flickr
Nice work Jan. I
When in the Netherlands ... ;)
Gotcha [:P]
When in the Netherlands ... ;)
Gotcha
LOL
This thread inspired me to play with DPP. After a long evening, I'm very pleased with my results. I suppose I'll have to make many garish adjustments before I awaken from my post-processing stupor.
Many thanks,
* * * John
I'll bump this thread up a bit. I tried to color an old B&W image last week. This is the original and the result:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8332/8...e8aaea99_c.jpg
My grandparents original by Jan Paalman, on Flickr
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My grandparents by Jan Paalman, on Flickr
The process:
This image needed quite some work. 10 hours so far to be exact, but I must say that I was new to all of this. The PSD file is 1.4 GB and the image has 30 layers on top of the original file.
The coloring itself isn't actually that hard. It is done by adding a color balance layer and masking the area's that you want to "paint". With each color balance layer you need to create your own color and I think this is the hardest part. To get the colors right. The layer exists of a 3 tones color balance. You can set a specific color for shadows, highlights and mid-tones. For most of the layers I kept it easy and just worked with one of the tones.
Gees Jan you've done a really good job there! It almost looks like a painting. That must've been painstaking work. Good stuff mate.
WOW Sheiky that is a great job. Lots of detailed work there. Nice one.
Lary
Very nice work, Jan! This must have taken you quite awhile to do!
Thanks! I added a little explanation on how to do this. I told my brother about this last thursday night and he offered to help me. We started friday night and we finished saterday afternoon. I estimate about 10 hours of work. There are still a few things that I want to change, but I like the result so far already.
It is very very hard to get the right colors. Also all the details take lots of time to paint and paint around. I guess you can all see the 100% file on Flickr? You will also notice a specific grain, that is because it is a scan of a photo and the grain is the structure of the paper.
The grain and also the softness of the original make it look even more like a painting.
Anyway I enjoyed it a lot and if I see more opportunities that are worth it I will definitely try again. Thanks!
Practicing a few more photo manipulations in photoshop this morning. I think this is the best thread going for me to put my crazy over the top concoctions in ...LOL!
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Wow! Very cool work Denise! I really like it and would say it looks very real to me. The only thing that bothers me is the thickness and headangles of the canvas. The size and angled lines just don't look right.
Edit: it's mainly the bottom thickness(not so much the sides). Too much of the bottom is visible for this angle to look truly.
Still I would applaude you for the processing in these shots. Nice!
Keep the crazy coming;)
I completely agree with you, Jan! I knew something just wasn't right but couldn't place exactly where I went wrong. These were the first two I did using the easel and it is quite the photoshop learning curve. If I try it again, at least now I know where to fix it. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheiky
I bet it was quite a learning curve! I wouldn't know how to replicate your work that's for sure.
If you still have the psd files with layers it's quite an easy fix. Just mask half(for example) of the bottom part and add a few new lines, one on the left, one on the bottom and one on the right side.
How exactly did you process the photos by the way?
I already closed up the file and only saved the jpeg of the manipulated photo :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheiky
I came across the "how-to" on this website ....
http://www.photoshopstar.com/photo-e...oil-paintings/
Lots of cool tutorials here and I hope to try a number of them!
Nice one Denise - I agree with Jan, the bottom edge is a bit wide but otherwise they're great.
Thought I'd post a couple of before and afters to show the power of RAW files and the hidden details you can drag out of them. There are no colours etc masked on top of these images (i.e. to make the sky blue etc) but I have applied a couple of graduated filters, contrast, clarity and highlights/shadows adjustments. I don't normally have any sort of standard workflow, mostly trial and error. All done in Adobe Lightroom 4.2 and just the text added in Adobe Photoshop CS6
Before:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7257/8...54b609e1_c.jpg
The other side unprocessed-6684 by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr
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The Other Side by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr
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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/8...fbb42d43_c.jpg
Sole Survivor Unprocessed-6673 by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr
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Sole Survivor by Ben__Taylor, on Flickr
That's too bad Denise. The tutorial is really nice, thanks for sharing!Quote:
Originally Posted by ddt0725
@Ben, WHAT!!!!??? Lol I always knew you were good with photoshop, but I also imagined the Aussie landscape to be much more interesting than my place. Your photoshop work looks amazing. You really should teach us(or only me) some of your moves, this is really good. By the way, big thumbs up for the compositions, they are very well done.
Ah thanks a lot Jan. If I get a chance I'll put together a bit of a workflow on one of these to show what I've done. Pretty sure the editing history will still be in lightroom.
The landscape out here is highly variable, probably because it's such a big expanse of land. There's some really incredible spots but plenty of flat areas with very little vegetation, particularly where we live.
Here are a couple:
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Sören through the screen door (before) by Poik242, on Flickr
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Sören through the screen door by Poik242, on Flickr
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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/8...94cc2394_c.jpg
Priest Lake evening (before) by Poik242, on Flickr
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Priest Lake evening by Poik242, on Flickr
That looks entirely different. Really like the final image.
@Ben and Eric - Those really are fantastic! That transformation of the evening lake shot is amazing, Eric!
I have so many old photos that I never did anything with until recently. Here are a few ...
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Eye of the Tiger by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr
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Siberian Tiger by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr
For some reason, I can't resize the original ..."error on page".
Nice work Denise! I like the second.
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Originally Posted by btaylor
Agreed. Denise, the first shot is good, but the second one really go my attention. I think it is a great shot. Thanks for sharing.
Dave.
Thank you Ben & Dave! I hope to one day get it printed large ...maybe a metal print. :confused:
I just printed my first metallic print of an autumn waterfall shot I took this year. It is amazing. I got it from MPIX since they have good prices and an option for them to not "color enhance" my shots.Quote:
Originally Posted by ddt0725
Dave.