Thursday, September 23, 2010

Before & After: Cherries

This tree is at my son's preschool.
It is the most perfect cherry tree I've ever seen!
Gorgeous!


SOOC:

Cherries - sooc


After:

Cherries with texture - wm



I edit with PSE 8 and here's what I did:

Step 1: Adjusted levels
Step 2: Used the clone tool to fix some blemishes within the cherries
Step 3: Added 'Wall' texture from my Hotel Textures Set, took opacity down to 25%
Step 4: Used this tutorial to make a mask layer
Step 5: Erased over the berries
Step 6: Merged visible




20 comments:

  1. I love the richness in color! Great job!

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  2. Love the texture you added. What a great piece of art. :)

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  3. Okay, this really is picture perfect! Love the texture you added and the deeper colors is ideal too!

    Donna
    Our Blog: Double Happiness!

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  4. You after is absolutely beautiful. Great work!

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  5. Wow that's a great edit Katie! Love the texture you added.

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  6. I love it . Are`nt adding textures fun? It really adds to this picture. Wonderful work.

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  7. Looks great! I love the brightness of the cherries! I am still in learning process with textures and not using Photoshop and Corel instead its kind of a challenge!

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  8. Wow! I see you went into a lot of work with this one and it should paid off! This photo would make a perfect wallpaper! Very nice and thanks for the link to your textures! Will have to give them a try!

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  9. Wow...I love them both!! Great job. I love texture!

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  10. Gorgeous! I love the texture and colors in the second! amazing edit!

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  11. Wow, I like that you used the layer mask to erase texture off the cherries. I'm not a fan of textures that compete with the subject, so this is really nice. Makes the cherries pop.

    Glad my tutorial could be of help! :)

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  12. Wow that second picture looks fab!

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  13. Wow! Great job bringing down the exposure and not darkening the photo! I love the color in the edit

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  14. Fabulous editing!!!! The texture added such dimension! Beautiful!

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  15. I love that you can do this with Elements. I love it!

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