Big City, Bright Lights [Photography Contest Photoshop & Digital Darkroom]
Uploaded: March 16, 2007 04:28:53
Image was made from pictures of buildings I have taken in all different cities. The actual pano is 27 by 92 inches long.
For each building object that I created I did the following -
1) applied mystical lighting to each building with different custom light caster settings to get the colors/light.
2) applied flaming pear kyotocolor to each object to "kick up the color"
3) combined all objects together and applied the PS Midnight blue action. I then only kept the top layer which was the screen layer.
4) combined the "screen" layer from the Midnight action with the building images that already had mystical and kyoto color applied in screen mode at 100%.
5) combined all objects and applied Mystical TTC tonal smooth filter at about 70%.
Joan Kocak March 16, 2007
very cool shot Heather! #621528Kiran Voleti March 16, 2007
Thanks for showing all the cities in colorful way..Linda M. Walker March 16, 2007
This is so impressive...what a creative and amazing image WOW!!! Thanks for sharing how you created this masterpiece #4060211Margie Hurwich March 16, 2007
Amazing work, Heather! #4060298
Linda D. Lester
March 16, 2007
Robert Baer March 16, 2007
creative, colorful, awesome creation heather! thanks for sharing the process. #4060518Murry Grigsby March 16, 2007
Boy, I'd love to see this in person Heather!! :0) Wonderful resulting pano image from your creative PS work. It is so retro and reminds me of some of the art work done back in the 50s-60s. Great job!! #4060845Kenneth Mucke March 16, 2007
Outstanding work of Art Heather...wonderfully created with georgous colors and detail #4060885
Mike D. Perez
March 16, 2007
Kimi A. Phillips March 16, 2007
Fantastic Heather! I bet this would show really well in an upbeat, fun gallery WINDOW!!!! #4061464
Terry L. Ellis
March 16, 2007
Joan Powell March 16, 2007
Wonderful !!! #4061888Darryl Wilkinson March 16, 2007
Quite the attention getter! This really is cool. Great idea and work, Heather. #4061954Arlene Krassner March 16, 2007
Heather this is a real treat and thanks so much for sharing the work flow. #4062087Jessica Jenney March 16, 2007
Stunning Pano, Heather! Incredible effects, colors and design elements! #4062138David Phalen March 16, 2007
Winner!!! Fantastic work Heather. #4062338Sam Britt March 16, 2007
Absolutely fantastic image, Heather. Excellent digital darkroom work. #4062446
Janine Russell
March 16, 2007
Robin R. March 17, 2007
Cool images with eye catching color. Nice work. #4065407
Nikki McDonald
October 19, 2007
Sam Britt April 22, 2009
Congratulations - fantastic finalist, Heather!! #7435568Lois Adomite April 22, 2009
Congratulations, creative finalist entry. lois #7435827Jeana Clark April 22, 2009
Fabulous finalist!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
~J~ #7436444
A P April 22, 2009
Well all that work sure paid off. This is awesome Heather. WoW Congratulations on this finalist and best of luck in the next round. #7436588
Usman M. Bajwa
April 22, 2009
Usman. #7437235
Robert Baer April 23, 2009
HeatherALLEN O. HOWARD April 25, 2009
A great description of all the labor that went into this beautiful image, Heather! Congratulations! #7448319Susan and Neil Silverman April 27, 2009
Heather, We are delighted to see your progress and this is a stunning image. Great job! #7456580Kim Kleinschmidt April 27, 2009
Congratulations on your Winner! Outstanding image! #7457208
Pat Abbott
April 27, 2009
Larry L. Redmon
April 27, 2009
Mary Beth Aiello
April 27, 2009
Mick Burkey April 27, 2009
Wonderful work, as always! Congrats on the win, Heather. #7458136Sam Britt April 27, 2009
Big Congratulations on your fantastic second place winner, Heather! #7458238A P April 27, 2009
Picture perfect Heather CONGRATULATIONS on your win!! #7458768
Jeana Clark April 27, 2009
~J~ #7458939
Alex T. Mizuno April 27, 2009
An amazing image you've created Heather! Congratulations on your win!!! #7458975
Evy Johansen
April 27, 2009
Margaret R. Barry April 28, 2009
Congratulations on your fantastic winner, Heather! #7460331
Elida Gutierrez
April 28, 2009
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
A Special Trophy for
"August Winners"
#7460769Graeme yew Chow April 28, 2009
Big congratulation Heather on your super winner. Alot of works here and you are masterful in PS work- graeme. #7460855Allen Hughes April 28, 2009
Wonderful vision and you carried it off beautifully. A well deserved winner. #7461342
Elida Gutierrez
April 28, 2009
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
A Special Trophy for
"MARCH Winners"
Guy D. Biechele
April 28, 2009
Usman M. Bajwa
April 28, 2009
Usman. #7461609
Murry Grigsby April 28, 2009
Congratulations on your terrific image and win Heather! Wonderful post processing and thanks for the workflow :0) #7461875
Ken Smith
April 29, 2009
Donna La Mattino Pagakis April 29, 2009
Beautiful Heather, congratulations on your win! #7465786anonymous April 30, 2009
Congratulations Heather on your awesome win! B- #7468871Linda Blair May 02, 2009
Well deserved win Heather....congratulations!!!!!!! #7475914
Dominick M. Dimacale
May 20, 2009
Dominick #7539094
Nikki McDonald
May 26, 2009
A P May 26, 2009
Kelly S. Cavanaugh May 26, 2009
Excellent work, Heather! Congratulations! #7563746Eugenio Diaz May 26, 2009
Congratulations on your AMAZING Finalist…Well done!Lois Adomite May 26, 2009
congrats! Lois #7564155Wendy Moghadam May 28, 2009
CONGRATULATIONS on this stunning Finalist! #7571067Jeana Clark May 28, 2009
~J~ #7572243
Nikki McDonald
May 28, 2009
Kay Beausoleil May 28, 2009
Congratulations, Heather, on your first place win -- so imaginative!! #7572537Donna La Mattino Pagakis May 28, 2009
Congratulations on your FIRST PLACE win Heather! #7572687Kelly S. Cavanaugh May 28, 2009
Congratulations on this beautiful win, Heather! #7572982Remi Trepanier May 28, 2009
Big congratulation on this first place winner :) #7573155
Deborah Lewinson
May 28, 2009
Renee Doyle May 28, 2009
Certainly a brilliant image!! Congratulations Heather! #7573369Colleen Farrell May 28, 2009
Finally got the recognition it deserved! Congrats on your win! #7573473
Claudia Kuhn
May 28, 2009
Sam Britt May 28, 2009
I remember this being a second place winner last month. Congratulations on your first place win, Heather! #7573999
Usman M. Bajwa
May 28, 2009
Usman. #7574150
A P May 28, 2009
Congratulations on your wonderful first place winner, Heather #7574323Sharon Sawyer May 28, 2009
Heather, congratulations on your well deserved first place win!!! #7574391
Erica Murphy
May 28, 2009
Jeff Robinson
May 29, 2009
Eugenio Diaz May 29, 2009
Wow, Congratulations on your Fabulous Win!!!Heather K. McFarland May 29, 2009
Thanks so much everyone. This was actually a mistake that it got entered this month. I forgot that I had entered it last month and I entered it this month before the judging for last month completed. So all my contest entries had disappeared from my list and I wasn't sure what I had entered the month before.I have rarely entered the same image twice on this site in the many years I have entered here even though I have seen it done here before. But I guess it was fine with the judges...LOL. #7576051
JudyAnn Rector
May 29, 2009
Murry Grigsby May 29, 2009
Good to see you in the winners circle again Heather! This is such a "HAPPY" cityscape image!! Thanks as always for sharing your techniques :0) #7577381Graeme yew Chow May 30, 2009
Wow ! big congratulation on this amazing work of architecture., Heather. Today I just hang up the photo of the glass wine that I bought from u at my sister house. #7578995Linda Blair June 01, 2009
Congratulations.....fantastic work!!!!!! #7585596Sandra Anderson June 02, 2009
Congratulations on your win with this stunning pano. The attention to detail and arrangement is fantastic Heather. #7587280
Mary Beth Aiello
June 02, 2009
Susan Jane Allen
June 17, 2009
Deborah A. Ciullo June 17, 2009
Completely amazing!!! You have done an outstanding job here!!! This is definitely one of my absolute favorites! Wonderful color and details! Thanks so much for sharing your process! This is definitely a very WELL DESERVED win! #7639931
Dominick M. Dimacale
July 17, 2009
Dominick #7747753
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