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Sharon Day

Tweak It 2

Just for fun, this shot could use some work. Dr. Silly is providing this image for us to "tweak."

What I'd like to see is members use this photo to manipulate, Photoshop it to death or just basic editing to make it better.

You will find a copy of the image in my pbase gallery and all you need to do to play with this photo is right click and copy it to your hard drive. Then when you're done post it here.

Please record the steps you take and the software you use so we can all learn from others. I will post my version later in the discussion.

Remember you must be fully signed into BP with your email address & password for uploads to work.

Looking forward to seeing what you all can do with Dr. Silly's image!

http://www.pbase.com/sharond/image/56075542

Please, if you don't enjoy Photoshop pass on this thread. We are not looking for the age old debate here on whether it's mortal sin to manipulate a photo.

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0 February 14, 2006

Sharon Day

I decided to go with a full blown impression on this one. I used Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine and just clicked random until I found an effect I liked. I also adjusted the color and levels of the pic.

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0 February 14, 2006

Gloria B. Wood

I decided to do an impressionistic rendering as well. I started with a touch of buzz. Then I returned to PS and applied spatter and increased saturation. I oversharpened then applied noise and poster edges.

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0 February 14, 2006

Gloria B. Wood

answer above

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0 February 14, 2006

Jay A. Grantham


	DrSilly Manipulation Jay A. Grantham

Inverted.. Increased Saturation.. Sharpened.

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0 February 14, 2006

Robyn Gwilt

Saturated, Polarise Distortion, De-saturated, re-coloured, hue.... blur - zoom and gaussian

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0 February 14, 2006

- Dr Silly

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Thank you everyone, they all look better then the one you had to start with. And I will not tell which is my favorite because it is going to be to hard to make up my empty mind. LOL.
Doc

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0 February 14, 2006

Kara L. Hendricks

My version..
I used Elememnts 2.0 for this.
I started by cropping it, then added NIK Old Photo/Black and white.. Did some selective coloring with the overlay brush option.
Added romance filter from VP, and Bleach bypass.. Then a touch of canvas texture.. Loved the soft effect I seemed to achieve.. Hope you like it Doc!!

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0 February 14, 2006

Jenny Bosmans

Here's another one for you Dr S. :)
I work with PS Elements 3.
Cropped, Flaming Pear-Kyoto color and Xero-Radiance.

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0 February 15, 2006

Jenny Bosmans

Big suspense...lol...here it comes :)

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0 February 15, 2006

Barbara Helgason

Feeling very bored, nothing on tv tonight. Here's my tweak, I never do this to my own pictures, sorry Dr. Silly.

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0 February 15, 2006

- Dr Silly

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Thank you everyone for your tweaking of this photo. You have all done a great job. :o)

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0 February 16, 2006

Mary N C. Taitt

OK, Dr. Silly and all, I tried this--what I did was make a vase with the flowers using ONLY components from the orginal image. The table clothe came fromt he dark foliage area on the upper left with burplap tecture aplied--the others should be readily visible.