A little help w/ post

dkapp

This is a shot from the weekend that I like a lot. I feel it has potential to be great if I could get a little more out in post.

I've been messing with it for hours, and not happy with anything I've done. here is the picture just cropped & leveled a little.

Any help is appreciated.



Thanks,
Dave

dkapp

Still playing w/ the photo.

This one I used the magic wand to select only the wood & used the burn tool to darken for an aged, weathered look. I was wanting to give it more character since it's such a big part of the photo, but don't want to distract from my shy friend.

I've also sharpened this one. Something I forgot to do w/ the previous shot.



Thanks,
Dave

cmr164

dkapp wrote:

This is a shot from the weekend that I like a lot. I feel it has potential to be great if I could get a little more out in post.

I've been messing with it for hours, and not happy with anything I've done. here is the picture just cropped & leveled a little.

Any help is appreciated.



Thanks,
Dave

Took your first copy and greated an embossed layer and then blended them. It is a little overdone to show the effect but you might try doing it before your darkening/aging process.

dkapp

cmr164 wrote:

Took your first copy and greated an embossed layer and then blended them. It is a little overdone to show the effect but you might try doing it before your darkening/aging process.

Great idea! I'll start playing with it now.

Dave

pathfinder

I darkened the barn by the Cletus method and dodged the horse a little and whitened the eye up a bit and then darkened the edges some ....

dkapp

pathfinder wrote:

I darkened the barn by the Cletus method and dodged the horse a little and whitened the eye up a bit and then darkened the edges some ....

Do you have a link to the Cletus method? I've been looking through the forum, but can't seem to find it.

Thanks

Dave

dkapp

I think I found it:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=2478&highlight=burn

Is this it?

Dave

lynnma

dkapp wrote:

I think I found it:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=2478&highlight=burn

Is this it?

Dave

Yep thats it

cletus

Here's something I threw together:



Steps:

• Used the magnetic laso tool to select the hole/window (which included the horse), and saved the selection as a channel
• Ran a "Ghost Effect" action
• Used my previously saved selection as a mask for the ghost effect so the effect only showed up on the wall
• Added a Levels Adjustment Layer with the Ghost layer as a clipping mask (which means the Levels layer will only effect the Ghost layer)
• Used the Levels layer to darken the wall
• Whitened the eye

pathfinder

dkapp wrote:

Do you have a link to the Cletus method? I've been looking through the forum, but can't seem to find it.

Thanks

Dave

The technique is decribed in detail in Dodging and Burning Done Right page 106 in Scott Kelby's "The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers".

cletus

pathfinder wrote:

The technique is decribed in detail in Dodging and Burning Done Right page 106 in Scott Kelby's "The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers".

Hey!!! No giving away my secrets

Actually I had forgotten where I first read about this technique. I'm glad someone tracked it down. I've felt bad that everyone kept calling it the "Cletus Method" since I most definitely did not come up with it.

dkapp

Thanks again for everyones help. Work has been crazy the past two days. I hope to try some more things on the image tonight & will post my results if I can make any improvements.

Dave