[stevegreen]

Took this today in a churchyard in some little village in between Lichfield and Cannock. The photo itself is a little boring I suppose, so I was trying to make it look more 'gothic' by adjusting the colours in photoshop.

I'll post both up and you can tell me if I have managed it

Original

and the processed one

[mattym]

whats it like in Black/white Steve?

[mr jones]

no, it doesnt look gothic, wrongly balanced yes, the green is too green.


consider adding afew kids with cradle of filth tshirts and it will look well goffik!

[RobertP]

I'd say you are getting there. Scene still looks too well lit though. Your changes have moved things more towards a night scene without it being dark.

[seany]

Gothic

[Mylo]

the great unwashed

[stevegreen]

Originally Posted by mattym

whats it like in Black/white Steve?

[stevegreen]

Originally Posted by mr jones

no, it doesnt look gothic, wrongly balanced yes, the green is too green.

So the greens should be reduced a bit then? I messed with the colours for a while and I think I got the 'purple' effect reasonably well, I quite liked the slightly highlighted green, i'll have another play.

I'm a bit annoyed about the tree in the foreground now too

[mattym]

better, darken the top half....

[stevegreen]

hmmmmmmm, i'll try, not too conversant with PS

[mattym]

may i?

[stevegreen]

yep, no worries..........be interesting to see what people can do with the original.

[mattym]

cant get the top to darken as i want, dont want to 'lomo' it as thats done to death now,

made a layer, added a layer mask, then darkened the original layer by knocking back the brightness and added a slight blue tinge to give a nighttime effect, used the layer mask to lighten the bench up slightly to give that slightly lighter middle of the dark foreboding graveyard type thing?

[tomson]

2 minutes of dodging and burning...

[mr jones]

gothic...

[seany]

Gothic...

[mr jones]

pffffft so teany goth, i bet she pretends to be a vampire and hangs around the nearest war memorial on saturdays and sundays......

[seany]

I bet that fellas the Vicars son getting back at his dad for stopping his allowance

Loads of the kids from Cheethams school of music (which is a classical music kinda gaff ) are goths. 100's of them outside the urbis every saturday. Which brings other goths/aka posh kids from miles around.

You can have your thread back now Steve

[mr jones]

Originally Posted by seany

I bet that fellas the Vicars son getting back at his dad for stopping his allowance

Loads of the kids from Cheethams school of music (which i classical music kinda gaff are goths) are goths. 100's of them outside the urbis every saturday. Which brings other goths/aka posh kids from miles around.

You can have your thread back now Steve

they all hang out on the memorial outside the corn exchange in preston, wish they;d bugger off really, they;re unsightly!

[seany]

Gothic...

[stevegreen]

I like what tomson has done with the picture. How did you manage to give it a sky with clouds?

[tomson]

just photoshopped them in.

[stevegreen]

I must start reading all those books I have on Photoshop It's amazing how you can just totally change the feel of a shot just by altering the colours etc, even if the original is pretty boring!

[mattym]

i like tomsons effort too, thats more what i had in mind, but i dont have the dodge/burn skills....


/goes off to RTFM

[DJW]

Only had 5 mins spare, but without tree in front bench for ya Steve. (Had to resize to stick within 120K limit). Plus added B&W vsn.