Helkoryo Workshop Photos Received

Title: The fish that never smilesCanon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi

The fish that never smiles (34)
Helkoryo

(21690)

Photoshop CS2

tanburi

(17868) [2008-09-20 05:21:39] [4]

Sharpening, add contrast, cloning reflective areas, recropping, framing
Best wishes...

The fish that never smiles (34)
Helkoryo

(21690)

GBS

GreenBaron

(38817) [2008-09-20 04:26:56] [3]

Cropped, increased contrast 20% and saturation 5%. Add frame.

Title: Can you Guess?Canon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi

Can you Guess? (26)
Helkoryo

(21690)

Paint.net

(21690) [2008-09-10 04:56:14]

not my desired software again but the simple invert colours effect worked nicely here. This peachy rose is the original image before applying the inversion filter

Title: How On Earth?Canon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi

How On Earth? (42)
Helkoryo

(21690)

Photofiltre

(21690) [2008-09-08 12:44:47]

Hi peeps, Workshop as promised!

Thats better I had my usual software to use this evening.

Taking the original shot I cropped and re sized.
The BG was grainy and the flower not as sharp as I would like so I decided to enhance the contrast between the bee and the flower by blurring everything except the bee.

There was still too much going on in the BG so I over painted a large section to give what I hope is the feel of a water colour painting.

Gamma correct +20 lifted the light enough to see more detail on the bee, sharpened once and re sized

Added text and two lines just because I liked the idea :-)

Hope this is better than this mornings post. A lot softer but the bee is now clearer and more detailed.

TTFN regards Smurfie

How On Earth? (42)
Helkoryo

(21690)

JascPaintShopPro

Hendrika

(17840) [2008-09-08 00:56:10] [3]

There are beautiful details to be seen on the bee, once you shine some light on it and that is what I did with Effects/Illumination/Lights.
Then of course the whole picture becomes OE, but I only cloned the bee back in your original picture.
I also sharpened, that may have been too much.

Els

Title: Mellow Yellow Spider & FlyCanon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi

Mellow Yellow Spider & Fly (74)
Helkoryo

(21690)

And the Spider

(21690) [2008-09-04 00:31:30]

Hi Peeps, so here he is in all his glory, sneaking in on the act when I was trying to capture the yellow flowers. I decided to relegate him to the workshop today to show another POV on this pretty shrub.

Title: Pop in for a chat....Canon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi

Pop in for a chat.... (31)
Helkoryo

(21690)

Cropped around it

Janice

(27355) [2008-09-03 12:55:45] [3]

Hi Helen
Your rose seems to be facing to the right, so I've cropped around it top and left. I also removed as much of the tangled greenery at the bottom too.

I played a little with shadows and highlights in CS2, and added a small white border.

Now we can concentrate / see more on the flower itself and not the surrounding areas.

With flowers, if they seem to be facing a certain way, try and crop around them so they look like they have space to 'move into'.

It's just a quick work, but I hope you like it.

Cheers
Janice

Title: Just a RoseCanon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi

Just a Rose (52)
Helkoryo

(21690)

PHOTOFILTRE

CallMeMaria

(13967) [2008-08-26 08:54:17] [2] [+]

Elimination of "residues" resulting from blackening the BG, which will appear on printing damaging the photo.

On photo nr 3 (from left to right) we can still see leftovers of the BG - I "cleaned" them with the brush tool.

Title: Decorating The Thrown PotCanon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi

Decorating The Thrown Pot (26)
Helkoryo

(21690)

Arrange/Crop

eosnut

(7123) [2008-08-20 17:20:39] [6]

I lassoed each of the top three images and moved them into line.
Lassoed and resized the bottom two and lined them up.
Cropped top and bottom.
A lot tidier, don't you think?
Pete.

Title: Natural FramingCanon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi

Natural Framing (42)
Helkoryo

(21690)

Natural framing 2

(21690) [2008-08-14 00:31:34]

This was my second choice for the theme this week. I feel the image is more framed as we have the contrast between shade and sunshine, but the view in the centre of the gardens is a touch OE in my opinion. I would be glad to know what you think though.