some photo manip

[luksy]

While browsing through the book about Digital Photography in my school library, i saw a pic where some professional photographer removed the car from the pic and modified the colors for a better effect. Since i never done this before, i took the challenge. I chose the pic where some people (my teachers) disturbed a good pic...so i removed them, made the exact color changes as the photographer, plus, i added a bit of blood splatter on the wall and floor for an extra effect :). So...that means that i am as good as this "professional" photographer is! :) Or even better since he had an easier job, hehe. Maybe i'll have a chance to scan his work so i can show you what has he done. Anyways, how did i do? Do you like it?

Editing time: 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Tools used: Clone, Dodge, Burn, Brush, Eraser, Polygonal Lasso and Smudge.
Adjustments: Level and Color Balance.

Original: http://www.freewebs.com/luksy/original.jpg
Photoshoped: http://www.freewebs.com/luksy/photoshoped.jpg

[APDesign]

Add someones feet coming out of the darkness like they are slumped in the corner dead :thumb:

[.soulty]

wow, pretty nice job, funny how you left a silouette of a person in the passage on the right.. lol he looks like a collumn. :P

You have done a pretty nice job cloning things out and in, if you were to show me the photoshop one first i wouldnt of guessed it, with that said its not perfect though. :!: hehe.. i think the colours are too saturated. there is a whole red coverage to the picture that is almost a pink looking colour. and the whites have been washed out at the front on the two collumns. Also given out a sharpened look which bring out artefacts (what happens when something has been sharpened too much.. generally a camera term).

Nice job though... Keep it up. ;)

[luksy]

so much criticism and then "Nice job though...Keep it up." - LOL! :)

[.soulty]

well it is a nice job, just mentioned things that could make it look better or what i think in my opinion i didnt like. im picky sometimes.

Im not going to say it sucks.. because it dosent... for a first attempt it was pretty good and thats what i meant :ne:
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[mlk]

good photo editing! to enhance it more you could (or could have):
-used a mixture of the 2 left colums to make the 3d one look a bit sharper
-the arch on the right has several problems; in the original pic you have a straight upward end of a wall, in the edited it seems to be slanted, blured plus on bit of the far arch looks blurry (might have been a guy's head or so =))

[kaotic]

i really like it

the only problem where the lady in the blue used to be you cant see the divisions between the tiles(i.e. where the grout would be)

just a suggestion :p