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Roy Pedersen

8 Years Ago

Show Your Before And After Images

This thread is based on an idea by Rich Franco.Post two images.The first should be the starting image and the second the image after all editing is done .Please write a short description on how the editing was done

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Roy Pedersen

8 Years Ago

Here are my two images
Scimitar 3 by Roy Pedersen Scimitar Abstract by Roy Pedersen

The start image is of a Scimitar Armoured car used by the British Army
After the initial basic edit in Lightroom I opened the image in photoshop and run it through an action that I purchased through Photodune called 'Canvas'
After the basic action was completed I then fine tuned it to get the look that I was after

 

Valerie Reeves

8 Years Ago

I love seeing these. Hope more people post. Here is one of my more dramatic transformations. It reminds me that even photos you think are not great can be worked into something better.

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Meike Hofstetter

8 Years Ago

Amazing to see how a photo can turn out into different results. Somehow I have a weakness for lines and less is more in photos. On this one I was after getting the diagonal line of the original into the diagonal from one into the other corner of the frame. Here is the one straight out the camera:

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Here is the result:
The umbrella Hamburg photography

Valerie, I love yours with the quote. Great idea!

 

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

Before and after:

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Roy Pedersen

8 Years Ago

Jessica,fantastic colours.Can you give away some of your secrets how you got it to look like that

 

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

Hard to say, Roy. :)

 

Frank J Casella

8 Years Ago

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Nice thread, Roy. Glad you listened to Rich's idea. Here is a simple Daffodil shot that I found during the golden hour sunlight. The first on the left is direct from my Pentax K10-D camera. I processed this art in Apple Aperture 2, I usually keep it simple. I darken the brightness more often than add contrast. I sharpen the whole image, then blur and / or darken more what is not the subject matter. I vignette the boarders. I add deffinition to the main flower in the center and saturation to brighten it. The Monochrome I darkened again, as I love rich blacks and sparkling whites. And I like to see detail in the whites ... this is what I learned in the darkroom back in college with film and paper from an instructor who worked with Ansel Adams. Enjoy!

 

David Smith

8 Years Ago

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Original shot with a Canon 5D Mark II using a 10" Wollensak Veritar adapted via a Hasselblad bellows. Color image adjusted in Adobe Camera Raw. Just color corrected and a bit of selective luminosity and saturation using the HSL sliders. Local burning on the background in PS. B&W processed from the final color image using Nik Silver FX.

 

John Wills

8 Years Ago

I think the tank and bridge are really dramatic transformations.. I thought I'd try this, usually I draw everything, but it took me around 5-10 minutes to find in the PD, paste it into my program, edit it, upload it, and post it here. Kinda nice not dogging through another image. :) All I did was add some brightness, color, and I pushed a slider to the right of center to give it the yellow overlay. Original is on the left. What do you think?

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Roy Pedersen

8 Years Ago

Some good images.Keep them coming.
John, the yellow completely changes the look of the image.I like it.

 

Melissa Bittinger

8 Years Ago

Here's one I posted awhile back for a similar discussion. Funny on the comments, Michel does not like the changes and Chuck thanked me, lol!

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Bob Galka

8 Years Ago

Before...
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This transformation was done totally within Adobe Photoshop. First there is preprocessing consisting of boosting the colors and moving them around, buy that I mean change the colors to suit my taste.

The rest was all done with the Art History Brush [ AHB ] using a pencil brush. The "painting" was done over a colored layer and topped with a texture layer.

 

John Wills

8 Years Ago

Public Domain image before..

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..and after. Found an "outline all edges" effect and applied it to the original, then brought the original image in again and placed it on top of the one with the effect. Then I applied an ellipse transparency that only revealed the center of the original image from the bottom left corner to the upper right corner which revealed the wings and outer portion of the "outlined" image. Added the text and a texture overlay, then messed with brightness, hue, and color to get the final result here. I like!

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Roy Pedersen

8 Years Ago

Some interesting techniques here waiting to be tried out.Thanks for sharing
Melissa I like your image

 

Roy Pedersen

8 Years Ago

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For this image I opened the original in Photoshop and cut it out of the background.I opened up a new layer for the linen background and moved the Tiger's head onto it.I saved the image as a TIFF for future use.I then used another layer for the words. When I want to add different words I can open the TIFF file and add new words.

 

Rudi Prott

8 Years Ago

That is the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon, the longest bridge in Europe.
The first was taken shortly before sunset, the second converted into black and white with a yellow filter.

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Jane McIlroy

8 Years Ago

First version:
Pink and White Lilies

Second version:
Elegant Lilies

I had already done most of the work, i.e. cutting out the background, for the first version, so for the second version it was a case of working on the colours to put more emphasis on the shapes of the flowers.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

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I shoot hdr, but people move in between frames, you have to edit them where they are positioned best. however in this one i moved a bit accidentally, and found i could clone out that light post at the same time.

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looking back at it, i can still fix something i just saw, but that's the after.


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mostly i do colorization's. trying to figure out the color for things that don't exist any more can be tricky

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the carnival one, i needed to paint the backgrounds of the signs, because i knew they are all hand painted, so i needed to maintain the look

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making the signs a deep and exciting color to attract everyone.


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making street scenes takes days to do. usually 4-5 depending on what's there. so many little details each one has. in this case, i have another one of the cross street and they both had to match.

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its a large image, with a lot of detail.


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in this last one, i didn't like that lady on the side, so i took her out.

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i think it told the story better with just them, using an isolated light.


---Mike Savad
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Roy Pedersen

8 Years Ago

Mike,The amount of work you put into your images shows in the quality of the final picture

 
 

Jon Bullman

8 Years Ago

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Sorry about the posting error. Here is the digital art afterward.

The colors came through with transformation of the Yellowstone Canyon image into a digital art piece to look like oil on Canvas Painting.

 

Brian Wallace

8 Years Ago

If I were not concerned about primarily uploading final versions for purchase, I would have a lot more "before and after" examples on this site. I'm sure you understand. I do however have a few because this is not the first discussion thread on this subject, and the fact that I tend to create more than one version of an image while I have it in the processing phase.

Here is one I put together because of another discussion on this topic some years ago. Please forgive the expansion of the image on this thread primarily because it's necessary for viewing purposes. I believe the series of images and captions pretty much explains the processing. I used a couple of different software programs and a good deal of cloning to shift pixels for creating the 2D to 3D stereo conversions...

Alternate Universes - Beginning To End by Brian Wallace



 

Brian Wallace

8 Years Ago

Here's another example... not really before and after, but the first one has only been processed with a zoom type blur, while the second one is done in the OOF (Out Of Frame) technique. I also incorporated "color select" to emphasize an aspect of what I wanted to convey to the viewer...

The Blonde Leading The Blonde by Brian WallaceBack Where I Belong by Brian Wallace

 

Fine art Gallery

8 Years Ago

Brian, that is awesome! what a difference it makes Girl with the dog

I don't do a whole lot of editing other than cropping and maybe enhance color little more.
I am sure I can find more, but for now I found this.
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Brian Wallace

8 Years Ago

Thank you Hyoye, for your kind response to my work. :)

 

Floyd Snyder

7 Years Ago

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Floyd Snyder

7 Years Ago



Abbie, I bet I have tried that a hundred times over the years and it has never worked for me. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

 

Bob Galka

7 Years Ago

Floyd.... try this...

img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67446831/9663_5168_520.jpg" width="600"/img

copy / paste the above into a post... add a < to the beginning and an > to the end

replace everything between the " " with your link.. should work

 

Bob Galka

7 Years Ago

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Bob Galka

7 Years Ago

Before.... one of Mario's images used with permission....

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my version using DAP

 

Judy Kay

7 Years Ago

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Floyd Snyder

7 Years Ago

Thanks Bob, but that didn't work either.

I don't want to clutter this thread with this issue so I will start a new one.

 

Joseph Westrupp

7 Years Ago

This thread's excellent, really fun to see people's processing. Is it paranoid to think it might be giving too much of the secret sauce ingredients away, though? :)



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Andrea Silies

7 Years Ago

A recent before and after. Photographing wildlife has its challenges. The herd decided to rest in front of an outhouse. Just my luck. I decided to remove some other distractions while I was at it.

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Roy Pedersen

7 Years Ago

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The original image was a panoram made up of 5 images in Photoshop. As you can see it had a bland sky so again using Photoshop I replaced the sky and as the image wasn't quite sharp enough to keep as a photo I edited it in Topaz Impression to get a painted look

 

David King

7 Years Ago

Not photographs but this does fit the before and after theme. The before is a charcoal drawing, just as I drew it. The after is a digital colorization of the charcoal drawing using Artrage software on a Surface Pro 3 tablet computer. Using the pen on a touch screen directly on the image feels much more natural than using an input device on a desktop computer.

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Roy Pedersen

7 Years Ago

Two slightly different images from the original shot of some stones on a beach.
I edited them in Topaz Glow
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David King

7 Years Ago

Original charcoal drawing based on a photo I took while hiking in the Wasatch Mountains.

art drawing charcoal nature forest Wasatch Forest

Hand colored digitally using Artrage software and a Surface Pro tablet computer.

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Then processed into an "oil painting" using DAP and the Monet preset.

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Roy Pedersen

7 Years Ago

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The original photograph was taken on a beach in the village of Pefkohori in Greece. After editing in Adobe Lightroom I opened the photo in Topaz Glow and just played around with some settings until I got the look that I was after.

 

Roy Pedersen

7 Years Ago

Pomegranate by Roy PedersenSpring Pattern Circle by Roy PedersenKaleidoscope Pattern Circle by Roy PedersenKaleidoscope Square Pattern by Roy Pedersen
The original photo was taken in a garden in Greece. I followed the instructions to get the first Kaleidoscope looking image. The next image I edited in Topaz Glow and the last on was edited in Photoshop.
The instructions can be found here http://digital-photography-school.com/turn-images-kaleidoscopic-patterns/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dec-0116

 

Whimsidaisical

7 Years Ago

I did some photo manipulation to turn a Venice canal into a cobblestone street. The first one is the finished image and the second shows both the before and after. The cobblestone street and sky also came from other photographs. I removed a lot of ugly pipes and junk (and obviously the boats, water and bridge) and then I used a filter on the completed image.

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Bob Galka

7 Years Ago

Ruth... nice job.. lots of attention to detail.

I know you didn't ask for comments, but.. ;O)

the only thing I found missing was some if the yellow light spill onto the street. There should be some from the alleyway on the right and the arched walkway on the left... and to put the cherry on top.. maybe some of the sky color as well...

 

Jennie Marie Schell

7 Years Ago

Mule Deer Autumn Portrait transformed into a Winter Portrait with Snow falling

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Whimsidaisical

7 Years Ago

Thanks Bob, I don't mind a bit of critique and advice. I agree, it is lacking in the lighting, and I'll be working on it as soon as I have a chance.

 

Bob Galka

7 Years Ago

Ruth.. looking forward to seeing the update ;O)

 

Nikolyn McDonald

7 Years Ago

I haven't participated in awhile but here's a recent work-up of a zoo shot.

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I straightened the shot and worked out the composition I wanted, adding a bit of canvas to the left and bottom. Then I removed the background by putting a solid color layer under it and masking down to that - zoom in really really close to do this! I left the ground in so it wouldn't look as if the animal was floating - the shadows help a lot, too. Finally I layered in some textures I'd purchased from Jai Johnson (The Daily Texture) and a cloud one of my own so it would look more like dust swirling. Hope you like it.

 

George Robinson

7 Years Ago

Dumb question. How do you post pictures here? There is no image button.

 

Roy Pedersen

7 Years Ago

Nikolyn, That image looks amazine.
George, If you go to the image that you want to post and scroll down on the right hand side you come to where it says EMBED. It has some code. Right click the code and then click paste when you want to post it

 

George Robinson

7 Years Ago

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Thanks Roy.

 

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7 Years Ago

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Joseph Westrupp

7 Years Ago

Getting this to not look horribly fake and plasticky (as it actually is) was challenging. But genuine skulls aren't the most plentiful things, so getting pics of them isn't easy. Therefore you do what you can with what you got...



Vintage-look artwork of a skull over a blurred green, blue, and purple background, by Joseph Westrupp, Bestilled.com.



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Roy Pedersen

7 Years Ago

Sell Art OnlineAlone by Roy PedersenMystic Coast by Roy PedersenReal or Fantasy by Roy Pedersen The first two images are the original photographs taken in the Halkidiki area of Greece. The third image has been edited in Topaz Glow. The final image I cut the woman out using Topaz remask and placed her on the edited background.

 

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