Old Barn

[dpoole6131]

I found this old barn wasting away in an old field...Opinions, comments....

[Kaye]

This is a great old barn. I thought a hint of colour might rejuvenate it a little. What do you think ??
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[dpoole6131]

I love it, I don't know why I did not think about that, I did the photo in color then to black and white, Thanks for the help and idea. I did some shots of some ducks in a local pond, on with the tail in the air as he is looing for food under water.

[angierae]

Here it is with a little bit of cropping, some contrast and some softglow. I do the same with most of my era past photo's.

[dpoole6131]

Are you using Photoshop? I just bought Photoshop CS4 yesterday so this should prove interesting.

[angierae]

No, I use Gimp. An older version, 2.2.12

[draneman]

lovely idea using b and w

[julimucca]

lovely idea using b and w

Angie, I downloaded a newer version of Gimp, but I can't figure out how to use it like the other programs I have. My husband works in topography and they used to use Gimp. How would you compare it to photoshop, in terms of which is easier to figure out? :)
Thanks!

[mrdoug]

Here it is with a little bit of cropping, some contrast and some softglow. I do the same with most of my era past photo's.

Great edit, angierae, to an awesome shot.

[solo1]

Hi,
I use photoshop CS4 and its great. So much better than CS2.. Hope you enjoy!

[DoctorJazz]

Love the open door.

[jomanros]

Some adjustements on CS3: curves, more contrast, less bright and more gradient.
My intention was to show a strongest sky, to get a good contrast with the ground.:rolleyes:

[Pat]

Increased contrast.
Sharpened.
Brown, maroon, gold gradient map in overlay mode @ 85% opacity.
Blurred sky.
Snappy 3 pixel black border.

[jomanros]

Well done Pat!

[Pat]

Thank you, Jomanros. When I finished I thought it looked similar to yours; perhaps a little lighter. Thought I better add some colour. :)

[kinetic]

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[dpoole6131]

I love what you did to my shot! I need to learn to master photoshop. Wonderful job. Could/would you email me a copy of the photo?

Thanks
Donnie

[StephenK]

I'm thinking that the old barn may still have potential! :^)

[Kaye]

Nice edit Stephen.

[jomanros]

Good work! I like it, looks lige HDR!:)

[StephenK]

Thank You Kaye!! :)

and Thanks Jomanros! The HDR look is a channels mask byproduct allowing one to jump up and down throughout the varying
layers of an image. There's a thing called "nesting", where you can tuck a channels mask behind a regular mask. This way you
can approach a specific aspect of an image with a customized channels mask, and yet localize it strictly to specific components... way cool...! :^)

[jomanros]

Hi StephenK! Thank you very much for your valuable tip!

[StephenK]

You're welcome Jomanros! It occurred to me after I posted what I did about "nesting" that I fell well-short of giving you
something to directly work with...

Below is a screen capture of how I injected the green for the trees into the image...

I first started with a Hue and sat adjustment layer. I then added a channels mask. (at this point I'm not sure what
I used for the bases of the mask... I'm in and out of calculations, and am drawing directly from the channels pallet so much
that it's easy to forget later where they came from. :^)

So with that channel mask in place I worked the sliders for Hue/Sat until I found the green that I was looking for...

Then I grabbed that layer and drug it down to the "Group" icon below.... "nesting" the hue and sat layer into a group..

I then built a channels mask that highlighted the trees.... and added that as the mask to the "group" layer... (nesting 1)

There was still some unwanted bleed-over... so I drug "both" of those layers down to the "group" icon... which gave me
a grouping three levels deep... (nesting 2)

To that one I added a blank mask and then blackened the areas that I didn't want into the rest of the image...

In most of these, when I use the nesting technique, I only use a single group layer (the channels mask and then a manual
mask, if I have to direct what was done) but this gives you an idea of how far you can take this...

You "really" don't want to be messing with the Channels mask itself... hilarity ensues :^) so this is a good way of
controlling the effect of a channels mask while leaving the original pristine...


Hope this is more helpful! :^)



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