My Image Your View: Statue: Late for Veterans Day but felt it may be fitting for the memories of their sacrifice to our country. Feel free to download this photo to your computer. You...

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

Late for Veterans Day but felt it may be fitting for the memories of their sacrifice to our country.

Feel free to download this photo to your computer. You can edit the photo any way you want. Composites, alterations, color shifts, black and white conversion are all fine. Post your edit in this thread by Thursday at 9 pm. No edits will be accepted after 9 pm on Thursday.

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John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Took the image into PS Express and did the enhance pre-set and a number of other pre-sets and got a tad more detail and extra color, but nothing spectacular and worth sharing. Sigh.

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

John_F wrote:

Took the image into PS Express and did the enhance pre-set and a number of other pre-sets and got a tad more detail and extra color, but nothing spectacular and worth sharing. Sigh.

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Our efforts are a learning experience. I appreciate your effort. Perhaps I should have posted a better image of it. However, I wanted to see what improvement or changes could be made on it.

kenievans Loc: Dallas

For some reason my color cast is off when I post to UHH but the download is fine. Please view in download. I really struggled with the original and the dynamic range. As Linda From Maine says it was above my pay grade trying to fixing it using conventional means in Lightroom so I went another direction.

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John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

I don't think a 'better' starter image is the issue. What PS Express pre-sets show is 'hidden' digital detail in highlights and dark areas. The detail is either there or absent and cannot be invented in less than a full image editor application, like Phoshop, but when one does that it is no longer image enhancement but is artistic expression wherein an additional message is intended.

SoHillGuy wrote:

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Our efforts are a learning experience. I appreciate your effort. Perhaps I should have posted a better image of it. However, I wanted to see what improvement or changes could be made on it.

fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

I like the image. Seems b/w is a logical way to go. I don't start with a plan. More like hearing cats. I experiment in ways I wouldn't otherwise think of with these MIYV exercises. Its a good learning opportunity, so even when the results are not so good, quite a lot can be gained. There are tools I am discovering for the first time in photoshop.

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NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

For all our Vets

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SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

kenievans wrote:

For some reason my color cast is off when I post to UHH but the download is fine. Please view in download. I really struggled with the original and the dynamic range. As Linda From Maine says it was above my pay grade trying to fixing it using conventional means in Lightroom so I went another direction.

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I like the concept you had in mind. I feel the buildings should have been more war-torn to blend in with the concept.

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

John_F wrote:

I don't think a 'better' starter image is the issue. What PS Express pre-sets show is 'hidden' digital detail in highlights and dark areas. The detail is either there or absent and cannot be invented in less than a full image editor application, like Phoshop, but when one does that it is no longer image enhancement but is artistic expression wherein an additional message is intended.

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Due to the lack of color present in the posted photo, black and white is a good way to have handled the problem.

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

NJFrank wrote:

For all our Vets

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Very patriot display, Frank.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

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SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

John_F wrote:

I don't think a 'better' starter image is the issue. What PS Express pre-sets show is 'hidden' digital detail in highlights and dark areas. The detail is either there or absent and cannot be invented in less than a full image editor application, like Phoshop, but when one does that it is no longer image enhancement but is artistic expression wherein an additional message is intended.

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I believe an artistic expression would be acceptable in enhancing the subject matter. If you wish to try it I would like to see how it turns out.

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

Linda From Maine wrote:

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The sepia tone gives the uniform a more natural appearance. Thanks for participating.

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

Here is my edit. Everything was done in Photoshop using many, many layers and several blended textures. Type looks better on download,

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IreneAC Loc: San Diego

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