tuesday play of the day no 17 ...

water color walking on the walls ...

- created (4) duplicate layers
- re-arranged/re-positioned layers
- applied water color filter
- stamped out the crack
- flattened

tuesday play of the day no 16 ...

what would aliens see, or bugs while flying around the desert? :)

- sharpen
- difference clouds
- diffuse glow

tuesday play of the day no 14 ...

ok, so i had to photoshop my own photo this week, had a few days of traveling so i had a few days to think about it. came up with nothing. i like the original photo a lot, but then the more i looked at it, the more i thought it looked half like spring and half like fall. i think it's due to the brightness of the green grass and the blue/semi-paleness of the sky. i wanted more of a fall look, here's my semi-best attempt.

- hue/saturation adjustment to remove some of the green and add red/brown flavors
- warming filter (no85)
- channel mixer to make the sky a little more evening grey/pink/blue



the original can be seen a few posts down labeled "fall weddings in new england ..."

tuesday play of the day no 13 ...

i'm not sure what i was thinking but when i saw this picture, i went with this approach. don't ask, i just went with it plus i wanted to be bright and cheery since lan's was scccccccccaaaary ;)

- cropped the bottom off
- create new duplicate layer to set the planks to yellow (haha!)
- create new duplicate layer to get the trees a lot greener
- create new duplicate layer to make the hand rails golden instead of brown
- sharpen x2
- flattened



here's the straight out of the camera:

tuesday play of the day no 12 ...

spooky spooky fall is coming, as is halloween and it's spooktacular evil possibilities.

- created new layer
- de-saturate to b&w photo
- boost brightness and contrast to deepen blacks & shadows
- rendered lens flare at 150%
- flattened



original:

tuesday play of the day no 11 ...

i actually have a few thoughts for this week's what's your play, but this was the first that came to mind. just a simple de-saturation and then a hue layer mask to remove the b&w and bring up the pink in the shoes, very slight bit of blur to mute out a bit of stroller too. and of course i cropped it a bit.



here's the original shot of the week ...

tuesday play of the day no 10 ...

tuesday play of the week ... mask layers ... (click on picture for 1024pix)



- color balance mask to bump up red rust colors
- selective color mask to add depth in green
- selective color mask to brighten the blue flowers
- layer mask to bump up contrast across the board, remove excess contrast from box
- layer mask to add snap to green grass
- layer mask to darken all the blacks
- sharpened

here's the original:

julian's tuesday play of the day ...

so julian saw this and asked me to post his version of what's your play ...

he used the dragonizing filter in photoshop ...

tuesday play of the day no 9 ...

so my cousin lan got me hooked onto another blog this week, what's your play?, great idea, post up someone else's picture and ask the community what would they do with the picture in photoshop ...

here's the original ...


and here's what I did to it:
... applied motion blur
... applied layer mask to remove blur to boat
... applied sepia filter
... cropped


(click on image to see larger version and better detail)