Scotney Castle Process

Sherry Felix

My version of Old Scotney Castle by Ryan Photography for June’s Before and After Challenge.

First, I brought Ryan’s picture into Photoshop and filled in the people and a few branches at the top of the image. Next, I opened the image in OnOne Effects and added an HDR evening metal effect, which I altered to suit. I brought it back into Photoshop and imported a sky. I masked out the original sky to let the new one show through. To tone down some of the color and make it less Disney like I added a black and white filter layer and masked out some of it to let the color show through in places. For fun I imported two eagles, masked them out and placed them in the sky.

  • Scotney Castle supplied by Ryan Photography edited by Sherry Felix (port4u.net)
  • Scotney Castle by Ryan Photography

26 thoughts on “Scotney Castle Process”

  1. TCast 2019-07-17 / 5:09 am

    Your edited version is perfect! Nice contrast, Sherry.

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    • Sherry Felix 2019-07-01 / 4:16 pm

      Thanks Cybele. So good to hear from you.

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  3. bushboy 2019-06-29 / 7:58 am

    So love your edits Sherry. Love the added bird 🙂

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    • Sherry Felix 2019-06-29 / 8:04 am

      Thank you. I like your B&W version too. I see we both found the branches distracting.

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      • bushboy 2019-06-29 / 8:44 am

        and the people 🙂

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  4. Eunice 2019-06-26 / 6:55 am

    Wow! Your transformation of the original is fabulous, it looks gorgeous 🙂

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    • Sherry Felix 2019-06-26 / 10:04 am

      Thank you Eunice. It really pays to learn “darkroom” tricks in Lightroom/Photoshop.

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    • Sherry Felix 2019-06-24 / 6:49 am

      Thanks. Amazing what one can do with these apps in a few minutes.

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      • BeckyB 2019-06-25 / 12:50 pm

        A few minutes, oh my I need to come and have a lesson!

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        • Sherry Felix 2019-06-26 / 10:03 am

          I’d be happy to teach you. 🙂

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          • BeckyB 2019-07-01 / 2:09 am

            That would be amazing.

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  7. Andrea Bagg 2019-06-23 / 4:39 pm

    Thanks Jill. Scotney Castle in Gothic mode!! Andrea x

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    • Sherry Felix 2019-06-23 / 6:43 am

      Thanks. I love making digital art.

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  9. andipab 2019-06-23 / 5:01 am

    Beautifully 🙂

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    • Sherry Felix 2019-06-23 / 8:00 am

      Thank you. I’m glad you like my editing.

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  10. milfordstreet 2019-06-22 / 8:42 pm

    Nicely done. Being able to import a sky is a really nice feature.

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    • Sherry Felix 2019-06-22 / 9:25 pm

      Thanks. Layering to exchange skies can be done in Photoshop and onOne. Doing thmasking correctly is key. Lots of tutorials around for that.

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  11. Bren (Ryan-Photography) 2019-06-22 / 1:09 pm

    Beautiful edit XX love the eagle touches ..many thanks for entering the challenge xx

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    • Sherry Felix 2019-06-22 / 1:31 pm

      Thanks Bren, I look forward to more.

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