Photo Edits

Castle – July One Photo Focus

Sherry Felix16 Comments

The original “castle” by Bren Ryan of RyanPhotography was dark (on purpose I’m sure) so first I opened up the shadows in Lightroom. I felt that the castle needed some breathing space and some interest in the sky. To do that I masked the castle in Photoshop and imported a suitable background of my own, taken in Panama 5/21/2014, to place behind it. I selected the water and duplicated it as a layer and stretched it to fill the bottom and stretched part of it to fill the area on the bottom left. I blended it in by cloning and masking then merged those layers. Lastly, I brought it into onOne for a few more adjustments.

Created for Stacy Fischer’s July One Photo Focus.

Scotney Castle, Kent by Bren Ryan with Volcan Baru background by Sherry Felix
Scotney Castle, Kent by Bren Ryan with Volcan Baru background by Sherry Felix
Scotney Castle, Kent by Bren Ryan
Scotney Castle, Kent by Bren Ryan

Boats – June’s One Photo Focus

Sherry Felix16 Comments

In David Croker’s lovely origianl didnt need much. I changed the time of day and mood first by casting a golden glow and then adding a sky with a soft lightning bolt which I refected in the  water.

Created for Stacy Fisher’s June 3 One Photo Focus

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Boats donated for June 1PF – original by David Croker
June 1PF edited by Sherry Felix
Boats For June 1PF edited by Sherry Felix
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PS Layers used

 

Hotel – May 1 Photo Focus

Sherry Felix24 Comments
After: Hotel by Julie Powel - edited by Sherry Felix
After: Hotel by Julie Powel – edited by Sherry Felix

To show it can be done, I took some extra time to remove the dead branches. Not 100% perfect but it will do.

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After without dead branches: Hotel by Julie Powel – edited by Sherry Felix
Before: Hotel by Julie Powel
Before: Hotel by Julie Powel

PS for hotel

I wanted to change the light and make it a bit more romantic. To do that I used two other photos, one of a sunrise and another of a flowery meadow. In Photoshop I masked parts of them off. I also used overlays; a photo filter to put a little blue back in and a warming filter. The screen capture shows how I masked the layers.

Created for One Photo Focus, May 6, 2016.

Barn – One Photo Focus

Sherry Felix43 Comments

I edited Cee Neuner’s photo of a barn donated for the April One Photo Focus challenge. After some Lightroom tweaks I brought it into Photoshop. I used spot healing, content aware fill, and cloning to remove the modern electrical wires. Then I used on1 to add a subtle antiqued look. After that I added adjustment layers in Photoshop; such as, color inversions, overlays, brightening and darkening, colored gradient, and grayscale. I converted a copy of the image layer to outlines and inverted it which created white outlines on the flowers to give it a bit of extra punch. I changed the color of the roof and brushed in a patina, added some early morning mist, and my final added flourish is the weathervane (open source).

Barn by Cee Neuner
Barn by Cee Neuner
Barn edited by Sherry Felix, source Cee Neuner
Barn edited by Sherry Felix, source Cee Neuner

Shakespearean Theater 1 Photo Focus

Sherry Felix8 Comments

I used the photo by Nancy Merill of Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theater donated and created for this for the March One Photo Focus (AB Friday) challenge. I use many multiple layers in Photoshop; such as color inversions and overlays, brightening and darkening, etc. until it had the look I was after.

After

Shakespearean Theater edited by Sherry Felix source Nancy Merill
Shakespearean Theater edited by Sherry Felix source Nancy Merill

Before

Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theater by Nancy Merill
Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theater by Nancy Merill

Ship for One Photo Focus Feb 2016

Sherry Felix8 Comments

I edited Stacie’s ship in Lightroom, Photoshop and on1 for the One Photo Focus post. The ship was closely cropped so I added an image of my own of showing London Bridge and a barge in the Thames, London.

After by Sherry Felix source Stacey/lensaddiction
After by Sherry Felix source Stacey/lensaddiction
Before image by Stacey/lensaddiction
Before image by Stacey/lensaddiction

 

 

Boat for One Photo Focus January

Sherry Felix4 Comments

Laura Macky’s photo is lovely as is. For this challenge I wanted to enhance the mood created by the old boat and bring that into the background. Here’s Photoshop recipe:

  1. Original image with some slight adjustment in Lightroom
  2. Curve adjustment layer: negative RGB, opacity 30%
  3. Grunge layer applied in on1 to a copy of original, blend mode: difference
  4. My cloud image. Blende mode: Hard Light, opacity 70%
  5. B&W adjustment layer default, opacity 70%
  6. Copy of original layer masked to show the boat, opacity 80%
  7. Smoke brushed, blend mode: Soft Light, opacity 89%

My version has an old postcard look and is also somewhat ominous.

Link to One Photo Focus http://wp.me/p14eaH-24Q