River Side

[tct70]

Thanks to the assistance and patience of the members of this forum (and Clifton in particular), I've completed my first production image using LWF:



Comments welcome, and thanks once again.

Trev

[glorybound]

LWF

Great job! I think a couple PS tweaks to make the image pop you'll have a 10.

[MHenry]

Very nice rendering! I agree with Bobby on the PS adjustments (curves perhaps) Minor stuff really.

[alexthg]

composition speaking, I'd add more space to the left and right frame, and use more landscape image proportion.

as for rendering & lighting --> great!

[DaForce]

Looks really nice, great light

Could do with a little bit of a tweak in PS to remove some of the LWF greyness, yours is pretty good in that there is very little. But when you compare the PS'd image is become quite obvious.

Basically gave it a hit with my S-Curve color adjustment and then added some very light bloom around the bright spots.

I hope you dont mind me posting this, just trying to help out

[glorybound]

PS

it is a 10!

[dominiquelaksmana]

nice one trev, and hey daforce,
good s curve. hehe
for me i just copy the original layer 2 times,
layer 1 to softlight
layer 2 to screen, make opacity to liking.

cheers

[DaForce]

Thats seem to work pretty good as well Dom

[dlparisi]

for me i just copy the original layer 2 times,
layer 1 to softlight
layer 2 to screen, make opacity to liking.

Good technique, when adjusting the screen layer I get something like 20-30 looking pretty good to me (how about you?). It produces similar results to an s-curve, not better not worse, just a little different. Definitely something I'll try on future scenes. Thanks.

[kimgar]

great tip dom! the s-curve is great, but this was a nice quickie

great render!

[teabag]

how do u apply the bloom guys? any layer technique as well or just manually selecting the brigth areas and applying glow?

btw...thats great tip dominique

[tct70]

Thanks for the kind words................

DaForce:
Don't mind at all fella. Much improved, and thanks for the tip.

Teabag:
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educat...ular_bloom.htm

Trev

[DaForce]

Teabag:
I used magic wand, select the bright areas then "select" "similar" copy that selection to a new layer, then gaussian blur it, then change the opacity.

Anytime Trev, hope it helps

[alexthg]

Really nice tip, Dom

Cheers!

[glorybound]

bloom

Photoshop has the diffused glow. When I want to bloom something specific I select highlights, remove what I don't want, and do as the above mention.