July Photography Challenge

Ugh! I didn't "process" that you needed the original. I need to go back and pull it from LR. But then do I lose my processing and have to start over again if I go back and reset the photo? I processed the photo, reduced noise a bit. I adjusted the highlights and shadows to bring in details of Courtney and then tone down the flame a bit. Nothing fancy.
If this is a problem, let me know and I'll figure it out.

 

Here's mine:

Here's my original photo:

 

Original photo (by my son Matt). I love the photo as is, but wanted to zoom in on Indias face and add some colour. Used a four colour fill with an orange base colour.

 

so i saw the kids outside and thought 'ooh photo-op!", grabbed the camera failed to check ISO settings and then took an over exposed photo and had to try to get it back because that was the bestest photo (nothing compares to spontaneous smiles) -and of course, i had RAW off so this was the result of various tweaks in Picmonkey (i kinda hate opening Lightroom for just one photo edit...
before photo:

 

and the original shot:


I played around with MCP actions.

 

I boosted the colours in this cutie pic of my nephew




here is the SOOC

 

Original photo:



I did an auto tone in Lightroom and tweaked a bit further in Photoshop using a Curves adjustment layer.

 

Way to go, Grandpa! by Juliestcyr posted Jul 7, 2016 at 3:42 AM

A pic of my dad, that was admittedly, an already pretty great pic (Thanks, Mom!) But, for every photo (I use PSE14) I ALWAYS hit "Smart Auto Fix", and then go into the "Guided" section and do a levels adjustment. It just helps to reduce some of the shadows, I find. I then used the lomo effect (also in the Guided section of PSE14), and added a slight white vignette (you can't do this in the lomo effect, which only lets you add a black vignette. So, you have to save your lomo effect, and then open the vignette option). I also added a Mommyish lighting overlay (Freebie from May) to the whole layout. I felt that it picked up on the vibe of the lomo photo and sent it out through the whole layout.

 

I added a filter and sharpened the original

 

My original pic: I changed to black and white, blurred background and masked out horses to return their color. Tweaked the foreground horse color; it was a bright day and when the sun shone on him he had a lot of red so I tried to get the color I remembered. I sharpened some of the hair on each and eyes with an action. Used PSE 13 for all.

Here's how it came out

 

Here is mine, thanks, Julie!



I use RadLab to process, so this was a combo: Snap, Warmth, Edge Blur and a little contrast. I also used a teal paper from the kit to blend to match the kit better.

Original Photo:

 

here is the original photo. i use pioneer woman's b&w beauty action then slight sharpen as well.

 

My before photos- I played with curves/brightness/contrast/vibrance & added a photo filter to soften the oranges

 

I adjusted the picture at the top since it came out orange due to lighting. Used Tinted Old Filter and then clipped it to some brushes.

 

These photos were really dark originally (because of the black trampoline) so I turned up brightness and contrast, and brightened up her face especially with a filter in the Nik Collection.

 

I changed the selfie to black and white to help with all the background chaos and I had to sharpen the theatre picture as it was even more blurry than it is now. I don't have lightroom, but used the adjustments available in Artisan. The edits saved over the originals - sorry.

 

I used the Nik Collection to give it an old school vibe.

 

mine:




and my original photo modified on LR with different presets:

 

My photo manipulation kind of was for naught. I took a photo of my son when he had come out of the shower. He has autism, so doing things on his own is hard. He had combed his own hair, and looked so clean and tidy! I took a photo of him in the dim room, and his dark blue eyes came out black, and shadows on his face did not look good. I did some filters, then manipulated them in Paint Shop to make his eyes blue again (which you cant see since I made the photo so small) and his freckles show more, bringing out the "little boy" in him!

THE ORIGINAL PHOTO


THE MANIPULATED PHOTO, ENLARGED


MY LAYOUT