To begin I started by going onto

levels so I could enhance the whites and the blacks to give the image an

overall more definition - especially

to the spikes which I believe to be

very effective.

These are the setting I used in levels. I didn’t push the pointers in too far because

it looked over-edited and took away the

sharp effect, and made the image

unidentifiable

In the top right hand corner of the original image (in

the blue area) there is a shadow which looks like it’s a

mistake.

I used the clone stamp tool in Photoshop to remove

this from the area which allows I found to make the eye

focus a lot more on the spikes rather than your eye

drawing off to the corner.

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Using the eye dropper tool I got the

colour of the plant (pink) so I could

then use the same colour with the

brush tool to go over the dead part of the plant (on a separate layer)

I used a separate layer so if it didn’t work or I needed to make changes it wouldn’t be an

issue since it wouldn’t interfere with the

original layer.

This also meant I could add an effect onto

that layer so it would work better with the

other. From the screenshot you can identify I have used Hard Light which made it blend

in and still showed the details of the spikes below it.

The two layers I merged, and made a backup of it incase I wanted to undo something.

It also meant I could add the next effect “Multiply” to the whole image rather than

adding it to two different layers.

Multiply made a huge change and made the

background darker and the plant brighter, this increased the contrast greatly and made the

spikes have more depth.

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On this photograph I have used HDR toning to enhance

the overall image.

By playing with all these different elements I was able to

make the colours far more vibrant which also brings out the light/shadow in the image.

It really made the red spikes stand out which made them

look far more vicious.

The main focus of the image is the main red part where

the stem really draws in the eye to the image, making the

red stand out here really enhanced the main focus of the

image.

Friday, 7 June 2013

Originally I was trying to

superimpose Layer 0 onto Layer 1, but it didn’t work successfully.

Therefore I attempted Layer 3

image, which when opened came in

enlarged and when given the

Multiply effect it applied itself onto

Layer 1 nicely - giving it a tinted

blue effect.

From the Layer 3 image you can see

the part shown on the final image is the top part (sky). I decided to move

it around a bit and give the idea of a

window being there, showing one

panel with light, and the others dark.

Friday, 7 June 2013