Post edited photos here

Year's_End · 02-11-2009, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TWiTCHY

What about the wheels?

Here's a simple crop and DxO I did after a recent photo shoot.

-select the wheels using the eliptical tool or the lasso tool
-filter>blur>radial blur

make sure to change the radial settings to spin instead of zoom.

btw, nice editing. do you use "smart sharpen" to sharpen your photos?

Year's_End · 02-11-2009, 03:35 AM

One tool that I think is worth mentioning is the "selective color" tool, located under Image>Adjustments.

I took your original pic and did the following steps:
-Smart sharpen
-Auto levels/contrast/color
-Levels
-Hue/Saturation
-Selective Color
-Reduce Noise

It helps define the clouds. I find this to be the best tool in combination with Leveling. I selected Cyan and Blue and decreased the black values and it really brought out the detail in the sky after it was washed out from leveling.

BSM 135i · 02-11-2009, 04:13 AM

is there a trick to selecting something with the lasso tool or do you guys just got real steady hands?

Vudoo4u2 · 02-11-2009, 05:40 AM

I like the enthusiasm..but I think after these adjustments (while the first pic wasnt perfect), you have left certain areas underexposed, whereas the other had slightly overexposed values...but I like the sky

maybe a graduated filter to let some of the other values from the orig pic shine through for better exposure...an hdr of sorts!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bimmer Loyalist

One tool that I think is worth mentioning is the "selective color" tool, located under Image>Adjustments.

I took your original pic and did the following steps:
-Smart sharpen
-Auto levels/contrast/color
-Levels
-Hue/Saturation
-Selective Color
-Reduce Noise

It helps define the clouds. I find this to be the best tool in combination with Leveling. I selected Cyan and Blue and decreased the black values and it really brought out the detail in the sky after it was washed out from leveling.

Teshi · 02-11-2009, 06:54 AM

Before Photohop

After Photoshop

Year's_End · 02-11-2009, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BSM 135i

is there a trick to selecting something with the lasso tool or do you guys just got real steady hands?

I usually use the polygonal lasso tool (click to form lines). It involves a lotta clicking but it makes for a smoother selection.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vudoo4u2

I like the enthusiasm..but I think after these adjustments (while the first pic wasnt perfect), you have left certain areas underexposed, whereas the other had slightly overexposed values...but I like the sky

maybe a graduated filter to let some of the other values from the orig pic shine through for better exposure...an hdr of sorts!

True that, I think you're right. I feel like it's a result of leveling pictures. If you don't watch out they can become washed out. I might have overdone it with the selective coloring.

Year's_End · 02-14-2009, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dark335i

Thanks! heres what i did, i know i messed with the wheels, i was trying to lower the car and fucked somethign up, heres two pics of it. thanks again.

noice work mang. i forgot to mention the step after selecting the M5: inverse select (shift+ctrl+I), but it seems like you figured that one out.

Tondtar · 02-14-2009, 01:01 PM

Hey, I got skillz ...

Don't ask me how I did it ...It's a trade secret

batchelorc · 02-14-2009, 02:03 PM

I'll play. A before and after. You can still see some sloppy editing, but the picture wasn't used for a large print so... who cares

Before:

After:

TWiTCHY · 02-14-2009, 07:49 PM

Haha change the time of day!

batchelorc · 02-14-2009, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TWiTCHY

Haha change the time of day!

Had to erase the tripod shadows and chains as well

dcstep · 02-14-2009, 09:06 PM

This is a print that I "Posterized" with Roxio. This is relatively easy to do, but selecting an effective photo is the hard part, then experimenting with the contrast and saturation.

chinoxs203 · 02-18-2009, 09:39 PM

Before

After

bmwturbopower · 02-19-2009, 12:54 AM

Here's my most recent

Before:

After:

c0nstant · 04-02-2009, 04:49 PM

alright so i just got CS4 again and was messing around a bit, heres super quick, (5-7 minute) edit i did. it isnt perfect by any means, its actually pretty bad lol

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i didnt take that picture, btw

Year's_End · 04-02-2009, 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chinoxs203

Before

After

there's no way this was done with photoshop...what did you do?

c0nstant · 04-02-2009, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bimmer Loyalist

there's no way this was done with photoshop...what did you do?

photomatix?

chinoxs203 · 04-02-2009, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bimmer Loyalist

there's no way this was done with photoshop...what did you do?

adobe lightroom 2 and thats all

chinoxs203 · 04-02-2009, 06:56 PM

here are some others from the same set

jesdan14 · 04-02-2009, 07:50 PM

what programs do you guys use?

Year's_End · 04-02-2009, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chinoxs203

adobe lightroom 2 and thats all

i've gotta check it out. i tried replicating that first pic with photoshop and it was close, but not nearly as good.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jesdan14

what programs do you guys use?

mostly photoshop. but there's other stuff out there.

c0nstant · 04-03-2009, 01:04 AM

was that shot exposed for once? the after looks like an hdr image - having all the detail in the shadows visible

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