Monochromatic winter skyline, part 2.

Molsondog

monochromatic

patch29

Molsondog, I merged your threads. If you use the reply button at the bottom of the first post it will allow you to attach another image in the same post, that way people can compare the two images.


If you shot it in the AM (sunrise) would that add sunlight back into those shadows?

If you want to play around in Photoshop you could try to add some color back into the sky.

fish

You could add some clouds (oh my...what a hack )

pathfinder

fish wrote:

You could add some clouds (oh my...what a hack )

Or better yet - you could replace the sky with a nice one with cumulous clouds - Just select the sky with a color selection tool - like the magic wand - and paint in a new sky from another picture with the clone tool...

Tuesday

Like this one
I used the clone tool and cloned a sky from another picture.
:tuesday

DoctorIt

Tuesday wrote:

Like this one
I used the clone tool and cloned a sky from another picture.
:tuesday

clouds like that would leave shadows on the ground, no?

but I can sympathize, I've also been experiencing "boredom" from the white out that is the dead of winter. Everything that isn't snow covered is salt or dirt covered. hooray.

pathfinder

DoctorIt wrote:

clouds like that would leave shadows on the ground, no?

but I can sympathize, I've also been experiencing "boredom" from the white out that is the dead of winter. Everything that isn't snow covered is salt or dirt covered. hooray.

Good job Tuesday - you have the sunlight coming from the left in the clouds and hitting the buildings and casting shodows to the right also - so that looks pretty good to me - might ease the contrast betweent hesky and the foreground slightly, but I think that is animprovement to the original plain blue sky. Any one l\else agree? or disagree?

Pathfinder

cletus

Here is what I came up with.



If you like it, let me know and I'll tell you what I did!

-Eric

cletus

I'm using the full version of Photoshop, but if you're using Elements I would imagine it can do this as well.

Take a look at your image and find three points: 1) A point that should be pure white (or almost pure white) 2) A point that should be compeltely black 3) A point that should be a middle gray

Here are the points I picked:


Either add a Curves Adjustment Layer, or apply a Curves Adjustment (from the image menu). In the Curves dialog box there are three eyedropper icons. One for black, one for gray, one for white. Click on the black point eyedropper tool, and click on the point in your image you wanted to be balck. Use the middle gray eyedropper and click on the point you wanted middle gray. Use the white eyedropper and click on the point you wanted white.

After this you can look at each channel of the curves adjustment and play around with them if needed.

Hope this helps!