Anyone good with PS/Gimp/Editing?? Help edit my pics?

[swoody]

I figured I'd post these pics up here to see what people can do with them. I'm not very good with PS or Gimp, so it would be cool to see what you could do with them as far as making them look nice. I have all of these pics fullsize if you'd like the fullsize image to work with, I can email those to you. Post up your modified versions here! (Oh, and these aren't pro photos or anything, they were taken with my waterproof Olympus digital camera)

So show us what you got! It's your time to show off your skills!

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/smwoodruff0908/PA191798.jpg

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/smwoodruff0908/PA191782.jpg

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/smwoodruff0908/PA191781.jpg

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/smwoodruff0908/PA191775.jpg

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/smwoodruff0908/PA191773.jpg

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/smwoodruff0908/PA191741.jpg

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/smwoodruff0908/PA191797.jpg

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n66/smwoodruff0908/PA191754.jpg

[bashveank]

I think your pictures already look pretty nice. Don't edit your pictures just for the sake of editing them. Color wise, I'd say they're pretty accurate and don't need any work. Composition wise, I would either reshoot or crop so that your horizon is 1/3 from the center of the frame, rather then in the center like you have it. Placing the horizon dead center makes each half of the image, top and bottom, detract from the other and you don't know if the picture is about the land or the sky.

[swoody]

Thanks bash! I never thought about the horizon thing. I've taken several pics like that before, and I love the scenery, but for some reason I always thought they looked a bit off. I'll give that a try :) And I have no problems with the way the pictures are, I just want to see what else you would be able to do with them is all :D But thanks for the kind words :)

[Half-Left]

Good ways to enhance your picture is use Colour Curves in Colours>Curves and make it like a S like in the screenshot below to enhance your images. Lower half of the curve is dark, upper part of the curve is light to enhance the lighting and colour.

You can use unsharp Mask(GIMP 2.6 has GEGL version which is better) to enhance the finer details and make them sharper, like grass and ideal for close up enhancement.

Those are nice shots BTW, good job.

[swoody]

Good ways to enhance your picture is use Colour Curves in Colours>Curves and...

Those are nice shots BTW, good job.

Wow, I like how much more detail you can see in that one now! It looks great :)

Oh, and I don't take good pics, my camera gets lucky every so often ;) But thank you.

[Gutt]

They're really nice pics :) , you should leave them as they are really. Just the fourth pic with the weeds just sticking out of the image, they should be taken out :-P.

Besides that you take good pics man !

[swoody]

Gutt - Well thank you very much :D

[bashveank]

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee117/bashveank/PA191741-1.jpg

auto levels, slightly upped contrast, applied a bit of sharpening, increased yellow saturation and brightness a tad, took cyan saturation all the way up, and brightness all the way down, took blue brightness all the way down.

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee117/bashveank/PA191773.jpg

auto levels, slight contrast bump, slight sharpening, increased cyan saturation quite a bit, increased blue saturation quite a bit but took down it's brightness a bit.


I would do the others, but I'd do basically the same thing to them, and most of them would be most improved by a reshoot with the horizon a little lower, cropping doesn't really work because it gets rid of the great use of wide angle that you have.

[swoody]

Wow, looking good bash! :D Would you happen to have those in a little bit larger size or did you delete them? I was going to send these to the State Park that I took them at. I noticed they didn't have a lot of pictures on their website or brochures, and the ones they did were pretty old :) If not, it's not a big deal, I was just curious.

[bashveank]

Yeah, I accidentally ran them through photobucket's resizer thing, but I probably still have the full sized ones on my computer.... I'll post them after I get out of class...... :mrgreen:

[sethvath]

Good ways to enhance your picture is use Colour Curves in Colours>Curves and make it like a S like in the screenshot below to enhance your images. Lower half of the curve is dark, upper part of the curve is light to enhance the lighting and colour.

You can use unsharp Mask(GIMP 2.6 has GEGL version which is better) to enhance the finer details and make them sharper, like grass and ideal for close up enhancement.

Those are nice shots BTW, good job.

These are over-processed. Anyone who has taken Savanna pictures will tell you the contrast between sky and grassland is not desirable since the khaki grassland is not known for it color vividness.

[swoody]

These are over-processed. Anyone who has taken Savanna pictures will tell you the contrast between sky and grassland is not desirable since the khaki grassland is not known for it color vividness.

How would you have done them?

[bashveank]

here are my full sized edits

[swoody]

Wow, they look even better blown up, haha. :D

[swoody]

Nobody else want's to take a stab at some of these for me??

[Half-Left]

These are over-processed. Anyone who has taken Savanna pictures will tell you the contrast between sky and grassland is not desirable since the khaki grassland is not known for it color vividness.

It was a example only and and I wouldn't know, I'm not a photographer.

[ratmandall]

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[swoody]

What did you do with the pic ratmandall? It looks very subtle.

[matteo.gazzoni]

Here's mine! :P

[ratmandall]

What did you do with the pic ratmandall? It looks very subtle.

Look closer.

[evissecx]

My attempt.
Includes gaussian blur, colorize, unsharp mask, changed lighting, change of warm and cold colours.

[xoger]

i like a colourful, unrealistic pic

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9426/pa191741sv5.th.jpg (http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pa191741sv5.jpg)http://img229.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

[lukjad007]

I'll have to give a shot at this.

[swoody]

Thanks so far guys! A lot of these are looking really great! Keep them coming, and if you have any unique or different ideas, please feel free to express yourself here!