Edit Challenge. Let's see how you handle this image. Nothing was done other

[alfredo]

than resizing. You can do a little, or a lot, but please describe what was done.

[RC]

1. Used Photoscape

Auto Level - Default
Contrast enhancement Default
Sharpening - .3 radius 40%

[alfredo]

2. The JPEGs out of my Olympus tend to the warm side. You cooled the colors.

[justiceischeap]

3. My effort

Here's what I did:
Opened as Camera Raw
Adjusted Contrast, Highlights, Saturation, Vibrance, Clarity & Shadows
Opened in Photoshop
Duplicated the layer and set it to Overlay and adjusted to 25%
Merged the layers
Duplicated the layer again and set it to Multiply and adjusted to 45%
Merged the Layers
Duplicated once more
Grabbed the burn tool set at 12% exposure for shadows and went over the entire image
Set to burn tool to midtones, duplicated above procedure
Set the opacity to 40%
Merged the layers
Painted over with black brush (to create a mask) to desaturate most of the background and trees
Saved

Took me about 10 minutes

[alfredo]

4. OK, you de emphasized the background to put more focus on the tree and foreground.

It almost looks like you desaturated the dead tree.

[justiceischeap]

10. I desaturated everything but the green mossy looking stuff. nt

[ManiacJoe]

5. Using Corel's Paint Shop Pro 13

Did a 1-pixel sharpen with Focus Magic.
Changed the white balance to a little cooler.
Increased the saturation with a little darkness.
Increased the contrast with just a little brightness.
Cropped off the left and right sides for a cleaner view.

[alfredo]

12. You really brought out the detail in the tree trunk.

[BuddhaGirl]

6. Here's mine

I used Photoshop cs5, then ran a "warming" action that I got from Totally Rad Actions. I'm not too familiar with Photoshop so I can't explain the editing steps - at present I tend to rely on actions, though I know I *should* learn the basics!

[ManiacJoe]

7. OK, so what actions did you run?

[BuddhaGirl]

16. It is called "super fun happy"

Totally Rad makes actions and Lightroom presets.

GetTotallyrad.com

[MichaelSoE]

9. i like what you did ... it has the feeling of an old timey, hand tinted photo ... cheers

[alfredo]

13. I like the warm browns like one would see in Agfa film.

[BuddhaGirl]

15. Yes, it does have a vintage look

thanks!

[MichaelSoE]

8. Using photoshop

1. duplicated original to a new layer
2. added a curves adjustment layer. increased the contrast
3. merged and stamped all layers
4. created a new layer, overlay mode, filled with neutral gray
5. using black to burn and white to dodge, on the overlay layer i burned the plants (brush set at 16% opacity) and that white piece of wood, dodged the dead tree
6. i then merged all the layers except the original. lowered the opacity to 76%.
7. the shadows at the bottom of the dead tree had no detail so i used an eraser set to 15% opacity to reveal more of the original layer.
8. I then upload the picture and started to type when I noticed that all the wood and ground seemed too reddish for my liking so reopened the picture, applied a hue and saturation adjustment layer and desaturated the reds a bit.
9. flattened the image, uploaded and finished typing this.
10. checeked preview but not spell check check.
11. clicked post my reply!

[alfredo]

11. Reminds me of Fuji Velvia film

[MichaelSoE]

14. velvia was my fav when i shot chromes ... i liked it a lot more than kodachrome

[alfredo]

22. When I did color, I mostly shot slides. Extachrome, Agfa, TriX, and Panachrome PanX ISO 32

was about all I used.

[rdking647]

17. completely changed the look

1. used aperture to adjust the levels
2. used nix software color efex 4 i applied the geyser sunset recipe
3. lowered the saturation
4. raised the contrast


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[alfredo]

18. When I was a kid my mom would take me to the movies. Those colors remind me of

the colors I remember on that silver screen.


The movies influence how I look at photography. I spent many happy hours sitting in a dark room watching moving images on the wall.

[Stevenmarc]

19. Diddled a bit on the phone

Used Snapseed to selectively adjust ambience and saturation

Then Dynamic Light to create a layer with their Orton Effect filter

Then into Blender to blend the Snapseed and Dynamic Light Layers with a multiply blend mode

Then back to Snapseed to apply a tilt shift blur.

[alfredo]

20. So dreamy. The mysterious woods.

[Stevenmarc]

21. Thanks

That's where I was going with it.

[alfredo]

25. It worked well.

[Stevenmarc]

24. One app further

Used an app called Romantic Photo to create a darker version with a dappled sunlight effect on top of the previous photo.

[alfredo]

26. Nice.

[Celebration]

23. my effort

Cut it to concentrate on upper right, simplifying the photo a bit, and then used PhotoDirector and performed the following actions
First warmed it up a but
Temperature 8
Tint 46
Tone--increased black level, decreased exposure
Exposure -0.73
Black level 100
Tinge--reduced clarity, vibrancy and saturation
Clarity -20
Vibrancy -78
Saturation -54
Reduced details
Luminance 100
Detail 56
Vignetting Effect-use this on many photos
Shade -87
Size 0
Feather 100

[alfredo]

27. That reminds me of old Extachrome slides. Nice.

[Mz Pip]

28. Here's mine for an "etching" affect.

Opened in Photoshop CS5
Made duplicate image.
Used "Find Edges" filter on duplicate copy.
Used "Luminosity" blending mode.
Opacity decreased to 60%
On bottom original layer
Lowered Brightness to -3 and Contrast to -30
Color balance - Cyan/Red +5, Magenta/Green - 22, Yellow/Blue -38
Hue -4
Saturation -36
Flattened image.

[alfredo]

29. That reminds me of solarization. Neat.