Poster inspired by drejs

[ibclare]

Hi guys, I have been wow'd by drejs' work and though my creation rather pales by comparison, it was fun and gave me ideas on how to do better next time. Here are the original image and the transformation.

I've added a 2nd version as someone whose first initial is P suggested I warm it up

[LRG]

hey clare,
i would change the sky but overall your work is pretty cool.

[Paul]

Nice effort clare, one problem i see is there is no depth or feel to the image, it feels cold - not warm or lived in like drejs works.
Walk us through how you got to this result maybe?

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Nice Job Clare

I have to agree whit the sky dough, other than that, it looks really cool.

Keep it up

[ibclare]

Thanks for the feedback everybody. I'll work on it some tomorrow if I have time. I know what you mean on the sky, lol! It's just me, I love rainy weather since I don't get enough of it here. I'm always taking pics of skies when they're threatening. But I have some others I can use. And Paul, I see what you mean on the coldness. Well, I am not trying to reproduce drejs' work, but I may give some warmth to it somehow and see where that takes it. I should ask but I bet his (her?) images use HDR; the color is so rich.

I appreciate all the comments LRG, Paul, Sir M. Muchas.

I have been working on another I'm going to post.

[ibclare]

Nice effort clare, one problem i see is there is no depth or feel to the image, it feels cold - not warm or lived in like drejs works.
Walk us through how you got to this result maybe?

no depth or feel? ouch. I respectfully disagree.
I can't really walk you through this very quickly since there are a lot of steps. Right now there are 22 active layers, some others have already been merged. However, I can touch on a few things.

First, I opened it in Bridge and upped the luminance about as far as it goes (or maybe all the way). This accentuated the painterly effect it already had to some degree. I corrected the exposure to what I wanted and so forth - in Bridge - then opened it in PS.

I did selective sharpening mainly of the plants. I used the pen tool to cut out windows, punched them through a layer mask on the street scene, then filled them with color and layer fx. I used the layer mask to cut out the sky which I did with the quick select & I think I used the polygonal lasso rather than the pen tool.

Most of my layers are adding punches of color or other painterly effects to different parts of the (almost called it a painting ;-] ) image. You can't see it much as it's an overlay of hobbit on hobbit, but the upper hobbit layer has the drybrush filter then the faces masked out.

Anyway, that's my process, kind of pay as you go, lol. I posted my warmer version as an edit to my first post. Added a warming overlay layer (rather than the photo filter); levels changes overall and to selections making changes thru the mask. I may make this kind of transformation my learning project for the time being.

[Paul]

Much better mate, it now as depth of colour and feels real, nice sky to.

[ibclare]

tx Paul; appreciate it.

[Vafann]

OH! That last one is beautiful! Lovely color combinations, and such a strange feeling of something inbetween dream and reality, in a good way. I love it!

[ibclare]

OH! That last one is beautiful! Lovely color combinations, and such a strange feeling of something inbetween dream and reality, in a good way. I love it!

Thank you Vafann ... and I love the way you express yourself