I Scare Myself

Skippy

For some unknown reason I have begun to understand a little bit about editing......it started last week when I opened my video cabinet and got out a PhotoShop Tutorial about Elements....and and and get this .....
I WATCHED IT :rolleyes yup it's scary isn't it :rofl

Okay now go easy....... one thing I am not sure about is this.
I applied a gradient filter to the sky, but I noticed it seems to leave Horizontal lines that to me really stick out, how do you smart people deal with such lines showing up? ... Enjoy my effort.... Skippy (Australia)

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firedancing4life

did you try running a blur over the gradient?

looks cool

Sam

Skippy,

I'm gona go against the flow here, and say I like it as is. Yes there is lens flare, but I think it adds to the somewhat sureal look.

Sam

USAIR

I'm with Sam on this I think it looks great the way it is.
Awesome job...can you tell us what you did

Fred

photostudies

I agree; I like it.
I've never had a flare enhance a photo!
Thanks for sharing!

saurora

I think Skippy is referring to the horizontal faint lines (almost like banding) that show in the blue gradient, not the flare. I can faintly see them in the upper left corner.

Skippy

Sam wrote:

Skippy,

I'm gona go against the flow here, and say I like it as is. Yes there is lens flare, but I think it adds to the somewhat sureal look.

Sam

Thanks Sam....Opppppppps I failed to mention I added that lens flare too, as well as the gradient blue sky.......sorry Skippy (Australia)

Skippy

firedancing4life wrote:

did you try running a blur over the gradient?

looks cool

Hi ..... yeah I did try a blur, but maybe I did it wrong, cause I could still see the lines even after I did it ..... thanks for looking....... Skippy (Australia)

Sam

saurora wrote:

I think Skippy is referring to the horizontal faint lines (almost like banding) that show in the blue gradient, not the flare. I can faintly see them in the upper left corner.

It's really hard to see on this small image, but I put it in photoshop and increased the size view, and I do see some lines, but anytime you push an image this can happen.

Here is what I would look at: reduce the gradient, back off the saturation, levels, contrast, try clone, healling brush at a very reduced opacity. Start over. Was this shot in RAW? If not go out your garage, get a hammer, and smack your self in the head a few times while chanting "I must shoot RAW....I must shoot RAW".

I think it's a great image well worth whatever the effort to achieve a result that I see on my screen.

This would be great at a large size!

Sam

Nikolai

Nice work, Skip!
"The beauty is in in the eye of the beholder"

And for some reason the landscape looks familiar

Cheers, mate!

Skippy

USAIR wrote:

I'm with Sam on this I think it looks great the way it is.
Awesome job...can you tell us what you did

Fred

Hi Fred..........well I watched the Video, however I had watched it before, but I must not have been all that interested at the time, but this time what I saw and heard really sunk in.

I am using PhotoShop Elements 3 with the added hack of CURVES.

The image has been cropped from the bottom to make it look more panoramic, levels, contrast, and Curves applied.

Next I isolated the sky which was quite a dull blue almost blue-grey in colour and applied the gradient blue filter to my liking.

While I was looking for the Gradient Blue Filter I noticed there was one for adding different lighting effects and one had different kinds of lens flares in it so I chose the one I used in my image.

Did a little noise reduction and applied an unsharp mask Skippy

Skippy

photostudies wrote:

I agree; I like it.
I've never had a flare enhance a photo!
Thanks for sharing!

The Lens Flare is added ...... its not in the orginal shot
Glad you liked it... Skippy (Australia)

Skippy

saurora wrote:

I think Skippy is referring to the horizontal faint lines (almost like banding) that show in the blue gradient, not the flare. I can faintly see them in the upper left corner.

Yep that's what I was referring to...... I need to figure out how to not make that look so obvious ...... Skippy (Australia)

Skippy

Sam wrote:

It's really hard to see on this small image, but I put it in photoshop and increased the size view, and I do see some lines, but anytime you push an image this can happen.

Here is what I would look at: reduce the gradient, back off the saturation, levels, contrast, try clone, healling brush at a very reduced opacity. Start over. Was this shot in RAW? If not go out your garage, get a hammer, and smack your self in the head a few times while chanting "I must shoot RAW....I must shoot RAW".

I think it's a great image well worth whatever the effort to achieve a result that I see on my screen.

This would be great at a large size!

Sam

Hey there Sam............yes it is shot in RAW, Mr Williams drummed that into my head a long time ago I only altered a copy of the orginal and for internet purposes it is reduced to this small size to display here.

I will have another go at it and see what I can come up with.
Thanks for your input Sam Skippy (Australia)

Skippy

Nikolai wrote:

"The beauty is in in the eye of the beholder"

And for some reason the landscape looks familiar

Cheers, mate!

Hey there Nikolai.......... I'm finally getting around to processing some shots, even though my computer is still not happy :uhoh

You know Nik you don't realize how much you actually take in during these Shoot Out Events till you start trying to put into action things you heard or saw......just being with people who are keen to learn and share their knowlege is a wonderful experience.

Take Care Nik........... Skippy (Australia)

Nikolai

You don't say

Skippy wrote:

You know Nik you don't realize how much you actually take in during these Shoot Out Events till you start trying to put into action things you heard or saw......just being with people who are keen to learn and share their knowlege is a wonderful experience.
Take Care Nik........... Skippy (Australia)

Same here.
After the first one I realized how much you learn by just basically hanging around and having a seemingly innocent chitchat...
That why I opted for a "post"-shootout (instead of "pre", I could not have both ), since I was hoping to put all the info I acquired during the primary event to a good use..:):
You too:-)

athos

Sam wrote:

Skippy,

I'm gona go against the flow here, and say I like it as is. Yes there is lens flare, but I think it adds to the somewhat sureal look.

Sam

that is definitely photoshop flare. and it definitely works too.

the flare fx is pretty cool, you can pick from several lenses that ps2 tries to mimic.

JimM

I like it the way it is too!

Skippy

Nikolai wrote:

Same here.
After the first one I realized how much you learn by just basically hanging around and having a seemingly innocent chitchat...
That why I opted for a "post"-shootout (instead of "pre", I could not have both ), since I was hoping to put all the info I acquired during the primary event to a good use..:):
You too:-)

Hi again Nick........for those who have never been on a Dgrin Shoot Out, they really are a lot of fun, and so much knowledge is shared and learnt during the event...... I loved it, fantastic bunch you Dgrinners are
Skippy (Australia)

Skippy

athos wrote:

that is definitely photoshop flare. and it definitely works too.

the flare fx is pretty cool, you can pick from several lenses that ps2 tries to mimic.

Yep its a PhotoShop flare indeed.......found it when I was looking for something else trust me my editing skills suck bigtime but I try.

Thanks for looking Skippy (Australia)

Skippy

JimM wrote:

I like it the way it is too!

Thanks Jim..... its fun just trying things to see how they look
It's remembering how you did it thats the problem

Skippy (Australia)