April 2009

[edbayani11]

since the streak was slight, i just used the burn tool, set to midtones, at 4% exposure. i set it at the softest and brushed the light streak slowly. adjusted the size of the brush acording to the width of the streak sometimes while brushing, the color saturates a little, so i brish it with the sponge tool to desaturate it to bring it back to its original color.

[Crashcat]

Here is one.
As per suggestion I am throwing it out here for others to give it a go.
Here was my original attempt.
Bricks
Here is how it started out.

[kat]

I took your photo and made a false HDR image. It really took out the highlighted area. And that would be it for the first one. Then I did the desaturate, used the history brush and did the second one.

Hope you get more images that are more unique than mine..lol!

[edbayani11]

i like what kat did. its simplicity gives the subtle impact.

i'm not happy with what i did but i posted it anyway.

[Gem]

since the streak was slight, i just used the burn tool, set to midtones, at 4% exposure. i set it at the softest and brushed the light streak slowly. adjusted the size of the brush acording to the width of the streak sometimes while brushing, the color saturates a little, so i brish it with the sponge tool to desaturate it to bring it back to its original color.

D'oh! Sometimes I forget this section even exists

Thanks for that edbayani! I'm going to try it out on another picture and see how it goes

[Marko]

kat's second image is 88% complete for me in terms of the image I have in my head. I'd make SOME of those great brick considerably darker to get some rich dark tones in the grey bricks.

[Crashcat]

After a little more playing around I think I got it. Maybe??

[Marko]

Best version so far IMO and 96% there.
A bit more selective dodging and burning and a wee overall contrast boost would likely bring me to 100.

Please keep in mind this is only 1 person's vision and at this point it's more about personal taste. The happiest person needs to be the photographer.