Photoshop Challenge! (#1)

[jadin]

So as a chance to improve at editing photos, I was wondering if someone wanted to donate a "raw" photo that needs some work. Everyone would edit the photo and post the results in this thread. No winners, no losers, but everyone gets some practice... :sillysmi: oh, and I suppose the person donating the photo would get a few versions they may or may not like.

The photo should (not required) be of a fairly large size for the best results. But if a websized version is all we get I won't complain. I put this in the themes forum since it will basically become a theme of one image by the time it's done. Feel free to move it wherever you feel it belongs admins.

I can't think of any other 'rules', if anyone has any or any idea really post away...

Oh, and someone besides me donate the photo, my 'newest' are from around November.

[John E.]

Great Idea jadin!

It would be nice if the person editing would post what they did to achieve their outcome also.

[NikonChick]

good idea.

[Corry]

I think it's a great idea, as well...now give us a photo to edit! :)

[Nikon Fan]

Very cool idea!!! I think this will help us PS newbies learn a load and will give us something to do between contests :lol:

Now we just need a pic....

[Verbal]

Sounds like much fun! Um, someone wanna submit a photo? Lol don't make me dig one out of my archive...

[fadingaway1986]

you can try getting the ugly spots out of my B&W photos..

http://www.ohsixohsix.com/images/scan0102.jpg

[LaFoto]

Oh my god, fadingaway. That is a challenging task, all right, I say! I couldn't do it... :( (No more photoshop).

[simnine]

that's alot of cloning. i'll have to pass.

[fadingaway1986]

Awww... I thought this said it was a "challenge"...

So it's true - my photos are doomed...

[MDowdey]

alecia, i fixed your photo, but i cant host the big ass file anywhere...

you want me to mail it to you?


but as far as the scan goes, i have one word for you....WINDEX.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

md

[simnine]

Awww... I thought this said it was a "challenge"...

So it's true - my photos are doomed...

It would just take alot of effort to get it looking right and I am just too lazy for that.

[Canon Fan]

OK I'll bite. I was going to keep this one for myself and work on it more in the future but lets see where this goes ;)

Here is a small version of the original untouched RAW file . . .

http://aurigenmedia.com/RAWtheme/truck1745rawWEB.jpg

And here is a link to a full sized .psd of it (17mb look out!)

Click here for the full res PSD file 17mb download (http://aurigenmedia.com/RAWtheme/CRW_1745 psd.psd)

[Canon Fan]

Here is my quick-ish version of it from PSCS . . .

http://aurigenmedia.com/RAWtheme/truck1745raw.jpg

[Verbal]

Ah phooey, someone else did the cool black and white. =( Well since that's been done, I threw together a quick "old photo" style for it. *shrug*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v364/UcK|Verbal/oldphoto.jpg

[Kent Frost]

Okay, first off, I burned it in some areas, then I converted solely to the blue channel, creating a darker shade for the truck.
Then, I pasted an orange(ish) layer on top of the image, blending it in the "color" mode and craking down the Fill Opacity to about 40%, giving it that sepia tone, then merging the layers.
Then I copied it and pasted it onto itself, so that I could manipulate the top layer, which I did. I gaussian blurred it, then going to the layer blending again and turning the Fill Opacity down to 40% again, giving it the diffused effect. Then I adjusted the brightness/contrast of the top (blurred) layer for a little extra snap.
Then I framed it.

http://www.djspiral.com/images/photography/entries/CRW_1745.jpg

[Meysha]

Well while I was uploading my pics I see someone else already loaded a pic up. Ah well here's mine anyway for people to fix up.

I was actually in the middle of doing this when I saw this thread and I thought this pic could help a few people practise cloning etc. I remember how freaked out about cloning I was when I first started PSing - mainly coz I was so bad at it.

I planned on getting rid of the couple of the right side and also the building on the horizon and maybe one or two of the 'live' trees. And I don't know what to do about the fact that this cemetary was on a hill. It looks a little strange in this crop because the horizon is slanty - but in the original pic it looked like it was just on a hill. I'll post the original photo up in a minute.

Here's a preview-Jpeg
http://www.ribbons.org.au/temppics/Small---WarMemItaly.jpg

You can download a larger jpeg here (174KB) (sorry no RAW) http://www.ribbons.org.au/temppics/WarMemItaly.jpg

And here's the original photo before I cropped it (262KB)
http://www.ribbons.org.au/temppics/PICT2829.JPG
Have fun!
Vicky

[Astro]

Old postcard :wink:

http://aurigenmedia.com/RAWtheme/truck1745rawWEB.jpg

http://www.photoforum.com/img/oldpostcard.jpg

[Nikon Fan]

Great job everyone...it's interesting to see what you all come up with!!! I think my fav is Kent's right now :) I may have to try later..

[Corry]

My fave would have to be Astros...nice job!

[errant_star]

Ooh very interesting thread ... I'm going to have to give my kudo's to Verbal and Kent ... wtg :thumbsup:

[John E.]

Oh boy, Oh boy, Oooo boy, I am really going to enjoy this thread :cheer:

Good picture Canon Fan. A very generous offering I might add. Your conversion is very good. In fact all the post processing looks great. Appreciate the narrative of your process Kent. :thumbup:

[Nikon Fan]

My pathetic attempt...I just wanted to try and go for something different with it, sort of a charcoal drawing/old lookin photo effect. I'm gonna continue playing with it though, but here's what I've come up with so far, oh and thanks for posting a pic Canon Fan, it was a great one to start with :)

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-10/851266/Truck-edit.jpg

[simnine]

boredom prevails
http://www.simnine.com/images/photmod20050315.jpg

edit: whoops. i didn't realize that we were not only photoshopping these puppies, but that we were supposed to make them look better. My bad :P

[OBrien]

Just got PS Elements last night, so had no clue what I was doing, but this seemed as good a place to start as any. What did I do? Not sure really, but warming filter, lots of saturation, lots of colour removal, slight crop, a very amateurish attempt to burn in some of the clouds that I couldn't undo. Anyway it was fun, even if it looks like a dogs breakfast. But how bad is the Help menu in PS??? I'm left with loads of questions which I may post elsewhere later.

http://images.snapfish.com/3433%3B92323232%7Ffp45%3Dot%3E2345%3D32%3C%3D866%3 DXROQDF%3E2323794%3B9%3B97%3Bot1lsi

[LaFoto]

Oh my, simnine, only now am I realising where that car that you "parked" in front of the cemetary comes from http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/g070.gif ! What a brilliant idea to make this photo more interesting!!!

(Hey, I am deeply impressed with all your 'interpretations' of that photo, wish I still had PS running and the knowledge of how to use it).

[jadin]

I'm surprised nobody went for the easiest edit! Simple "fine-tuning".

Original:
http://aurigenmedia.com/RAWtheme/truck1745rawWEB.jpg

Edit:
http://www.pepper-land.net/photos/temp/CRW_1745-jadin.jpg

- added contrast
- added saturation
- dodged the highlights a smidge
- resized and unsharp masked (i must've been the only one to get the full sized image! :))

[Canon Fan]

OMG! I almost fell off my chair when I saw simnine's rendition! Good idea!

BTW: For anyone interested I do have the originall actuall RAW file in .crw format I just didn't know how many people could use it so I posted a full size .jpg

If you want the .crw to mess with let me know and I'll post it. The file is about 6mb - much smaller in file size than the .jpg :mrgreen:

PS Jadin- I like the way you think! That is close to what I had orginally done with this one :wink:

[lizheaemma]

Personally I like the colour orange more then red so here's my attempt

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/lizheaemma/truck.jpg

[blitz]

hmmm i'll give the truck a go even though nearly everything has already been done to it

[JonMikal]

incredible edits and superb idea of a thread jadin! can't wait to see the next challenge.

[Unimaxium]

I'd like to submit something for this challenge. This one has a lot of different colors in it, so it should be a challenge as well as an interesting photo to do something original with. So here it is:

http://homepage.mac.com/skyboy/Photos/SuperiaWeb/crop0009.jpg

larger version (280-ish KB) can be found here (http://homepage.mac.com/skyboy/Photos/PhotoshopChallenge.jpg)

Good luck :)

[captain-spanky]

am i too late for the truck challenge?
I only saw it late last night....
this is only a quick go so the details are mostly missing... and i was going to add some scallops to the paint and fade a bronze if from the front or something but what do you think? :) oh fo sho .. shiznit :lol:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/captainspanky/randomness/pimpin.jpg

[simnine]

rofl!

[jadin]

The TPF license plate is a nice touch. :sillysmi:

[captain-spanky]

you like? :D
the chevvy was just crying out to be pimped :lol: i mean who needs a rifle rack behind you when you can fit a glock in the glove box? :lol:

[Canon Fan]

I dig the BLING yo!

This is fun :thumbup:

[Corry]

Dude...that is the pimpest truck I've ever seen!!!! And the TPF plates rock!

[Big Mike]

This is a great idea but I think it should have been in it's own new post...with the original photo right at the top. If there is another original photo put up for a challenge...it should be in it's own new thread.

Good work everyone.

[Corry]

I agree with Mike...Anyone else wants to post another photo, start another thread, titled Photoshop Challenge (#2)

[LaFoto]

But the work on the red truck also worked wonders in connection with Meysha's Italian graveyard and simnine's job to it! In that case, two challenges perfectly turned into one, and it made me laugh so hard once I had stopped slapping my head over the recognition of where that truck parked by the graveyard came from....!!!

[hobbes28]

Ahhh...what the hay. I thought I'd give one a go and here it is.

http://www.fatephoto.com/aubrey/images/challenge1.jpg