How can you save this shot?

ReeferBen

I like the shot but some things (red arc) bother me. How would you post proccess it?

Sam

ReeferBen wrote:

I like the shot but some things (red arc) bother me. How would you post proccess it?

OK, here is my quick and dirty, using the low res file posted.

ReeferBen

I really like that, how did you do it? Got rid of the arc and a lot of the other distortion.

Andy

here's my quick and dirty try

ReeferBen wrote:

I like the shot but some things (red arc) bother me. How would you post proccess it?

hi reefer

(image by reeferben)


i first cloned out most of the lens flare. another way to do that is right here

then, i applied an overall toning layer to the entire image (sort of that peachy-orangy color. i used a luminosity toning technique described here

finally, i selected the sky, then the a richer orangy-peachy color, and dropped in a paintbucket full of that color. i used a separate layer here, and gaussian-blurred the hell out of it, and then played with the opacity sliders to get a good result.

wxwax

As always, Andy, your posts are an inspiration to try things. I'd only messed with the luminence mask once before, kinda cool.

Led me to this.

ReeferBen

Well it's been a while but this is the first I have seen of it/ Looks great thanks for the lesson!

Ben

luckyrwe

Can you do the orange filter again but have it only in the sky? Leave the ground as it, or add some shadows.

jwear

Sam ???

Sam wrote:

OK, here is my quick and dirty, using the low res file posted.

great job Sam but i thought you would like that little parachuting alien what did you do with him ???