[ivoire]

Pentax Compact Camera Post Processing Contest #12

The Rules

1. Have Fun!

2. Use any Post Processing Software and techniques.

3. Entries will close on June30th, 2013, 11pm Chicago time.

4. Maximum image dimensions for entries are 1024x768 pixels

5. Max of 3 image entries per person. Entries may be withdrawn or changed

6. List software used, as well as your method, with your entry so we can all learn.

7. There are no limits or restrictions - make the subject image into whatever you want!
But please do not copy or alter other entries....

8. Contest winner determines the rules, selects theme, sets closing date, and judge’s next competition

Link to full size image
http://www.mediafire.com/download/urnx79c3r39bppc/cat_hat_full.jpg

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Last edited by ivoire; 12-20-2013 at 10:27 AM.

[altopiet]

Today I made notes as I went along...!
1. Opened with Zoner Photo Studio Pro 15
2. Quickfix
3. Crop
4. Unsharp mask
5. Darken highlites
6. Add saturation
7. +focus magic
8. resize
9. Export to Nokia Lumia 920
10. Open with Fotor app
11. Tap enhance
12.Sharpen again
13.Open with Sketch Free app
14. Picked "Sparky
15. Send back to laptop....

Looking at the result, I really don't know why I did steps 1 to 8

[ivoire]

Christo... this reminds me of all the ageing family polaroids (but the relatives don't have hats on)

[altopiet]

Ok! I know it looks like I feel some days, really "you know what"!

[todd]

- found an image on flickr that fit close enough to something i wanted to be the new background and hijacked it
- put it in gimp and roughly cloned out the old subject in that image
- cropped the cat roughly and ran a contrast and lomo filter over him to make him look like he does below
- dropped this on on top of the hijacked image
- roughly cloned out the stuff from the original image that was still around the cat
- applied a vignette filter
- cropped again and resized

[ivoire]

todd... lost in a field of dreams??

[todd]

or found maybe

[Bart]

Fun image to work on, ivoire!

Already great entries I see.

Like a drawing, Christo! I like it.

A really dreamy image, todd. Reminds me of the film Wizzard of oz (original )


Someone said Polaroids?

That reminded me of a fun little application I had downloaded once: Poladroid.

I used LR5 beta to do some basic things, exposure, cropping, contrast & clarity.
For the first version, I used Poladroid:




Because that put me in a nostalgic mood, I used FilmPack4.




Finally some Autumn effects from Color Efex (my favourite season ):

[todd]

Thanks Bart and nice work with all entries so far! a fun image to play with.
-everything done in gimp/gmic
-resize/crop
-cloned out stuff
-ran a filter to make the sky blue (which unfortunately screws up the trees and rest of image)
-put this result over unfiltered copy and masked out as much as possible to just retain blue sky
-used lab mixer filter in gmic to boost colors (to an artificial looking level with the thought that it'd work well with the next step)
-ran two filters in gmic to produce the painterly effect, both adjusted to about 30% opacity
-burned some of the edges a bit and ran a dodge and burn filter in gmic and adjusted that result with a layer mask
-ran a detail enhancer filter in gmic called 'freaky details' and adjusted that to about 30% opacity (probably an unnecessary step but just messing around here)
-one last vignette filter at about 30% opacity

[ivoire]

Great stuff from everyone... we're off to a fun competition

[Bart]

A real painterly result, todd. Like it!

[kyteflyer]

I did everything in Snapseed on th iPad.

First, I cropped. All work done on that image

First... adjusted the image with sharpening and details. Then Tuned it with increase to brightness, contrast, ambience.


Next: The "Grunge" presets: I kept going til I got a sepia with a texture i liked.


Last: Black and White after sharpening, then boosted contrast

[ivoire]

Another nice set to make the judging difficult

[Bart]

Great results, Sue!

[todd]

Great results, Sue!

ditto that!

a couple more 'fails', not for official consideration... just messing with plugins