This one I'm extremely proud of! And if it's not accepted on BigStockPhoto.com I'll be very upset! This image definitely took the longest to edit but the results were ultimately the most impressive (and I'm hoping you'll agree when you see the finished product).
This was my final image used from my photo shoot in London. Taken on the same grey day as Images 1 & 2, this photograph is an excellent piece of architecture (although I didn't always call it excellent when I was editing it!). Here is the original:
Before I could take a stab at editing this photograph, I had to decide how I wanted the finished image to look, and how I would tackle the editing process. I had a few options open to me:
1. I could keep the image exactly as it is and just remove any obstructions from the bottom half of the picture.
2. I could make the building symmetrical and just work on the half that needed less editing doing to it.
3. I could remove the bottom of the building to make editing easier.
I decided upon option 2, because it would make the editing slightly less frustrating and also because I didn't think it looked QUITE as good if it wasn't symmetrical (so if the architect of this building is reading... take note! Next time, build it my way!!) I swayed against option 3 because i didn't want to lose the character of the building. Removing the bottom of the photograph would have taken away a focal point of where the building meets at the bottom in the middle, which is what makes the building exciting. Option 2 was definitely the way to go, so I began the long editing process.
The first step was to crop the image to cut down on the amount of editing I needed to do. This was quickly done, and the results of the crop are shown below:
I could then begin work on warming up the nasty grey sky that is on the original photograph. Like the previous images, I did this by making a new layer and painting over the sky in a nice blue colour, before setting the layer blend parameter to Overlay. This image gave the most impressive sky when compared with the other three images, and you can see the results of this below:
From here on, I could ignore the left hand side of the focal point (the building) of the image because I wasn't using any of it. I started work on the manipulation of the image which was a very slow process. If you look at the high resolution original, you will see that there were so many things to get rid of, and I hope you agree that I did a good job and the end result is impressive. I started, as most people would, with the easy bits! You will notice one sign (I think it's for Lloyds bank) on the side of the building. This HAD to go, otherwise there was no chance of BigStockPhoto accepting it due to an infringement of copyright. I plodded away using the image clone and the healing brush, which are a godsend in this situation! Eventually, after a few hours (although it was probably more) I had removed street lights, people, signs, railings, traffic lights, flowers, and all sorts more! I was then almost ready to copy the right hand side of the image and create a mirrored image, and a complete building! The last change I made to the image was to turn the railings into some kind of boxed walkway type thing. You will notice the difference. After I'd cloned through the railings, I'd actually made quite a bit of a mess, and the image looked untidy, so I decided to block out the railings, making it look a bit like painted wood, which doesn't look too bad.
At last I could copy the right hand side of the image to the left and complete the image, which you can see in all its glory below! I hope you like it:
This was the image submitted to BigStockPhoto.com. I hope it gets accepted because of the amount of time it took me to complete! I think it's a very good image and I have used the editing features of Photoshop to a great extent to make an attractive and aesthetically pleasing end product. The only thing I'd change about the photograph is the bottom of the image that used to have railings. It was too difficult to edit effectively though without getting rid of them and blocking them out with black.
Check my final post to see the results of my uploads!!
The first step was to crop the image to cut down on the amount of editing I needed to do. This was quickly done, and the results of the crop are shown below:
I could then begin work on warming up the nasty grey sky that is on the original photograph. Like the previous images, I did this by making a new layer and painting over the sky in a nice blue colour, before setting the layer blend parameter to Overlay. This image gave the most impressive sky when compared with the other three images, and you can see the results of this below:
From here on, I could ignore the left hand side of the focal point (the building) of the image because I wasn't using any of it. I started work on the manipulation of the image which was a very slow process. If you look at the high resolution original, you will see that there were so many things to get rid of, and I hope you agree that I did a good job and the end result is impressive. I started, as most people would, with the easy bits! You will notice one sign (I think it's for Lloyds bank) on the side of the building. This HAD to go, otherwise there was no chance of BigStockPhoto accepting it due to an infringement of copyright. I plodded away using the image clone and the healing brush, which are a godsend in this situation! Eventually, after a few hours (although it was probably more) I had removed street lights, people, signs, railings, traffic lights, flowers, and all sorts more! I was then almost ready to copy the right hand side of the image and create a mirrored image, and a complete building! The last change I made to the image was to turn the railings into some kind of boxed walkway type thing. You will notice the difference. After I'd cloned through the railings, I'd actually made quite a bit of a mess, and the image looked untidy, so I decided to block out the railings, making it look a bit like painted wood, which doesn't look too bad.
At last I could copy the right hand side of the image to the left and complete the image, which you can see in all its glory below! I hope you like it:
| Before | After |
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This was the image submitted to BigStockPhoto.com. I hope it gets accepted because of the amount of time it took me to complete! I think it's a very good image and I have used the editing features of Photoshop to a great extent to make an attractive and aesthetically pleasing end product. The only thing I'd change about the photograph is the bottom of the image that used to have railings. It was too difficult to edit effectively though without getting rid of them and blocking them out with black.
Check my final post to see the results of my uploads!!
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