The Photo Editing Game

Post by **DJKeefy** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:24 pm

Oh thank you Andy

im Honored

however I will pass my Win to Grandad then we all get a go

Over to you Grandad to posts a Photo we all can edit....

Post by **Grandad** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:07 pm

Keefy, you are such an honerable man

and I am humbled by your generous deference to an elder

Here is a picture with plenty of editing opportunities....so have fun

And where is everyone else who joined in on the first few????
Hope we haven't got too silly....serious stuff is most welcome

BTW, I think I may have scared everyone off with the photo comp topic on the blue side...'The Waters of Egypt'

I really do mean any picture in Egypt with water.....from hotel pools to Red Sea fishes, from canals to Nile v1stas....absolutely anything with water in the picture......hope a lot of regular contributors read this and get some entries posted

Post by **Horus** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:30 pm

Looks like the temple of Seti I Grandad

It always makes me laugh when I see that chunk of stone on the right, it is placed with the inscription upside down, as they say, only in Egypt

Post by **Grandad** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:45 pm

Yes Horus.....forgot to say where but am sure we all know...such a lovely approach

Anyhow, bet you never saw it like this

SETI MANSIONS

Post by **Horus** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:46 pm

Nice one Grandad

Post by **DJKeefy** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:40 am

Gee im stuck Grandad, i was going to do something similar

Post by **DJKeefy** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:14 pm

Ok i had a quick go

still could do with some fine brush treatment

Post by **Horus** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:36 pm

Looks pretty good to me

Post by **Grandad** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:39 pm

Hat-shep-Seti I suppose DJK.....Very good

But what is all this fine brush stuff????

Can't find that on my 1997 Adobe Photo Deluxe Business Edition

Can't justify this new fangled Photoshop whatsit

Post by **DJKeefy** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:33 pm

I use paint shop pro, i meant some areas (the palm trees) could do with just brushing over with a finer brush to fetch the backgroung more in, you can still see some bluish sky in them from the original photo.

I like the moved entrance

Post by **andy** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:41 pm

I've moved Seti's temple to Alexandria

Post by **Horus** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:47 pm

Nice location Andy

I thought it was lacking a few Sphinxes

PS forgot to put 'edited' in the album picture

Post by **Grandad** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:19 am

You guys are all too good for me with your fancy software

But there must be more out there......just look at that lovely flat roof crying out for some addition

Post by **Grandad** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:45 am

Looks as if I might have to consider an investment to be able to compete with you all.

Keefy uses PaintShop Pro, what do you, Andy and Horus, use?

Post by **andy** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:32 am

Grandad wrote:Looks as if I might have to consider an investment to be able to compete with you all.
Keefy uses PaintShop Pro, what do you, Andy and Horus, use?

Hi Grandad,
I used Paintshop pro 7.
I've also got Paintshop pro 9 AND Adobe photoshop CS4 but always end up using PSP7 as it's what I'm used to.

Post by **Horus** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:02 pm

I am like Andy, I tend to use the one I am most familiar with

I have Photoshop 7.0 with a hard back manual that's about 1.5 inches thick, but to be honest I rarely use it. If I have to manipulate anything, I always make myself a lot of hard work by doing it the hard way and using believe it or not PSP ver 3.0!

mainly because I am used to it.

I tend to do things the long way around such as in my own photo entry where I freehand copied the row of sphinxes from another picture, resized it, then pasted it into the Seti one. Then pasted another row of sphinxes as a new image, mirrored them, shortened the row length to match the target picture. Removed the lady on the left hand row then used a copy technique to lengthen the plinths and extend the kerb edging. Lots of manual touching in and blending to match the background and foreground always using plenty of zoom and about 80% strength to either clone other areas or push a few pixels to blend the edges. Finally I messed about with the 'Hue' to give it a more realistic colour match. Like I said, not so much using the clever technology, just a lot of patience.

Post by **DJKeefy** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:36 pm

Im using Paint shop pro 9. I only use this program because i have used it since the earliest version and just kept upgrading, When it changed over to the Coral from Jasc it seem different so i stuck at the version before Coral took over (from version 9).

I really dont use much of the features, i duplicate the photo (background)so i have 2, i cut around what i need from the original photo (posted by you)and paste it on to the new background, then i use the background that i have not pasted anything to brush around what i have pasted to blend the background.

Post by **Horus** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:21 pm

Grandad said it needed something on the top, so how about a train?

Post by **DJKeefy** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:32 pm

Post by **Grandad** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:25 pm

Priceless H, much better than what I had in mind

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BTW....I've downloaded a trial of paint shop pro X2 ultimate (whatever that is?) to try something a bit slicker than my trusty old Adobe