Image Editing/Post-Processing: Before and After's in here

Devrij · 29 Feb 2012 at 14:17

Jingo... said:
Changed the weather?

Can you blame me?

GSXRMovistar · 1 Mar 2012 at 21:01

My Jan comp entry, SOOC:-

Cropped, colour adjustments, then lots of brush adjustments for exposure/saturation, sharpness corrections, finally a few spot removals.

Fresh by AndyBakerUK, on Flickr

Columbo · 2 Mar 2012 at 08:35

By brush adjustments Andy, what exactly do you mean and how did they alter the image?

And are they done in LR3 or PS?

Sorry for being a noob

GSXRMovistar · 2 Mar 2012 at 09:24

All done in LR3, the adjustment brush allows you to paint over an area you wish to edit, once selected you can then adjust various properties of that area (colour tone, exposure, sharpness, etc). So in the below brush adjustments have been used to bring out colours and details in the pieces of fruit and massively increase the sharpness of the water in the centre of the image to highlight the edges around the splashes.

Auraomega · 2 Mar 2012 at 12:20

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Truth be told I thought it was a great photo but horribly overexposed, so I started to play with it. Rather happy with the outcome!

Temi_D · 4 Mar 2012 at 20:04

My attempt, was going to delete the pic. C&C appreciated

Before:

After:

settings in LR:
Crop
contrast +100
Clarity +36
Vibrance: +52
Tone curve: 'S'
Split tone: yellow/brown
Grad filter at the bottom at -4 exposure
EDIT: and vignette

GSXRMovistar · 4 Mar 2012 at 20:16

I quite like that, nice save. Possibly remove the two sets of aerials on the right.

Rojin · 4 Mar 2012 at 20:49

I only really do B&W PP, pretty much everything else is as it comes maybe with a contrast or WB tweak here and there. I used to mess around a lot more, but those were the "formulative years" and would only really suit a "how not to" thread