before and after
TRANSCRIPT
To begin I started by going onto
levels so I could enhance the whites and the blacks to give the image an
overall more definition - especially
to the spikes which I believe to be
very effective.
These are the setting I used in levels. I didn’t push the pointers in too far because
it looked over-edited and took away the
sharp effect, and made the image
unidentifiable
In the top right hand corner of the original image (in
the blue area) there is a shadow which looks like it’s a
mistake.
I used the clone stamp tool in Photoshop to remove
this from the area which allows I found to make the eye
focus a lot more on the spikes rather than your eye
drawing off to the corner.
Friday, 7 June 2013
Using the eye dropper tool I got the
colour of the plant (pink) so I could
then use the same colour with the
brush tool to go over the dead part of the plant (on a separate layer)
I used a separate layer so if it didn’t work or I needed to make changes it wouldn’t be an
issue since it wouldn’t interfere with the
original layer.
This also meant I could add an effect onto
that layer so it would work better with the
other. From the screenshot you can identify I have used Hard Light which made it blend
in and still showed the details of the spikes below it.
The two layers I merged, and made a backup of it incase I wanted to undo something.
It also meant I could add the next effect “Multiply” to the whole image rather than
adding it to two different layers.
Multiply made a huge change and made the
background darker and the plant brighter, this increased the contrast greatly and made the
spikes have more depth.
Friday, 7 June 2013
On this photograph I have used HDR toning to enhance
the overall image.
By playing with all these different elements I was able to
make the colours far more vibrant which also brings out the light/shadow in the image.
It really made the red spikes stand out which made them
look far more vicious.
The main focus of the image is the main red part where
the stem really draws in the eye to the image, making the
red stand out here really enhanced the main focus of the
image.
Friday, 7 June 2013
Originally I was trying to
superimpose Layer 0 onto Layer 1, but it didn’t work successfully.
Therefore I attempted Layer 3
image, which when opened came in
enlarged and when given the
Multiply effect it applied itself onto
Layer 1 nicely - giving it a tinted
blue effect.
From the Layer 3 image you can see
the part shown on the final image is the top part (sky). I decided to move
it around a bit and give the idea of a
window being there, showing one
panel with light, and the others dark.
Friday, 7 June 2013