It has potential

[Prosumer07]

Please help this photo. It was taken in a hurry while crossing the street in downtown Chicago. I'm not exactly and expert with Photoshop and I know it has some potential. Please help. I was just wanted to see some variations you awesome people could come up with.

 

[ledittmar]

 

[Prosumer07]

drools how did you do that!?! amazing

 

[scottmack]

Do you know how to use levels? It's easy to learn.
Learn about using the Levels histogram.
The picture can be improved in 2 minutes.

Put your eyedropper on the clock face - should be white - it should have equal RGB values. Or close to equal.
The picture has a reddish cast.

Put the dropper on the white on the star; same thing. It looks white but it's not. You can make it white.

 

[Cherilyn]

Cherilyn

 

[Prosumer07]

I looked at your version of this picture...and the first thing I said was wow. I want to know how to do this stuff!!!! the first guy's way and yours. plzzzz

 

[ledittmar]

I did it with levels in micro soft picture digital image 9, all I did was click on levels auto, and it is what you have here.

 

[Cherilyn]

I did what Ledi did first, I adjusted the levels. Then I used Select > Color Range, and grabbed the highlights, and put them on another level. I used AutoFx to do tonal sharpening, deepen blacks, and some warming. Then I dup'd the highlights level, erased the selection for the clock faces, then set one to darken and one to multiply.

I think you could do a lot with this photo, like more of a day2night look even. There is always potential!

And, Thanks!

Cherilyn

 

[Prosumer07]

Experimenting with filters

 

[Cherilyn]

Cherilyn

 

[joe604]

It's been awhile since I've come here to play. Gave this a bit of a grunge look with the blue channel on top of a Lucis layer.



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Joe

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[Samuel Briggs]

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Sam

 

[Prosumer07]

Thanks for all the stunning variatons and great results! I would love to see what others could come up with too.

Happy photoshopping

 

[GlobalTvlr]

Best
Chris

 

[debetman]

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jerzy

 

[Prosumer07]

I think Pop is better than the other version Cherilyn