Photo Editing Contest WE 10/12/08

[Master Mason]

This weeks challange is Black and White conversion, you may use this picture or one of your's. If you use yours you must post before and after.

Rules can be found in the sticky at the top of the page.

http://gregghall.smugmug.com/photos/384417133_mTTxH-O-1.jpg

 

[RBennett]

I'm sure this is probably the obvious choice on what to do, but since I'm first it's ok!!

 

[Suburbanmom]

 

[JimbobJimbo]

 

[jann1033]

converted to bw using lightroom grayscale prest. cropped, erased stuff i didn't want in photoshop e5. tweaked tones in alien skin exposure, made background and added alienskin texture( i think forget which one it's in, think it's in textures) backlight.duplicated masks, and arranged on layers, flattened then made frame

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

my offering this week!

Bonny

 

[ChristusG]

Here's my play! Boosted in curves a bit, converted to a warm toned b/w, added some sharpening, did a little burning....and ended up with this.

 

[Michele]

 

[10dedfish]

 

[Shan-man]

Here is my entry... I did a B&W conversion emphasizing tonal range and detail, selectively converting colors to maximize contrast without adding posterization. I played with the curves to emphasize the sparkles and did some sharpening. Then I masked the central mask, jumped it to a new layer and did some lens blurring and vignetting of the background to make the main one pop. Did some minor retouch to get rid of some specs and a hair, and smoothed the chin and eyebrow of the main mask. All in PSCS3.

 

[DebºoºS]

 

[budmonster]

 

[Mckymousefn]

my offering this week!

Bonny

This is totally cool!!! How did you do it?????

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I liked the Gold in the picture so I chose to keep that element.
Converted to B/W and then pulled back in the Gold highlights. Added some tiling and a frame.

 

[boBQuincy]

Added a cloud layer with a feathered oval cutout.
Changed to B&W, boosted red and yellow.
Added a spotlight.
Added a faded oval embossed frame.

 

[AndrewWG]

Ok, so I will admit it, I suck at photoshop. There, I said it. That is step one. Could more people explain how they did their conversions on these pics? That would help me quite a bit. I have a book to explain to me what these things you all talk about are, but I would have no idea when to use these things without an explaination of how you all did your photos.

Of course, I realize that I only have photoshop elements, so some of these things probably aren't even possible for me.

Thanks!

 

[jann1033]

Ok, so I will admit it, I suck at photoshop. There, I said it. That is step one. Could more people explain how they did their conversions on these pics? That would help me quite a bit. I have a book to explain to me what these things you all talk about are, but I would have no idea when to use these things without an explaination of how you all did your photos.

Of course, I realize that I only have photoshop elements, so some of these things probably aren't even possible for me.

Thanks!

andy i didn't see any thing here you couldn't do with elements and maybe a couple free plug ins..the problem of course is reading the books and using the manuals,not all that fun for some dumb reason i just bought painter x which is like the steriod version of some of the filters and artistic effects in elements but hehehe it'll be a while till i figure that one out, oh well winter is coming so i'll have plenty of time inside

 

[AndrewWG]

Yeah, I figured that they aren't all that advanced techniques. I think that if people were to say what they did (some of them did say) then I could look it up and try things on my own. Then again, I rprobably wouldn't do it all that well anyways!

 

[10dedfish]

Andy,

I used gimp for my mods. Its a free download and pretty powerful, but it takes some getting used to. The documentation leave some to be desired, but I figure out what I want to do then spend the rest of the time figuring out how to do what I want to do.

10ded