Before and After [Ended]

[tennie]

I did about 35 of these of different players for my husband's middle school. The finals had name, team, and # on them. We used them as fund raisers for the football team. This required Topaz Detail, Topaz Remask and Topaz Simplify. I started each one in Photoshop CS4 and finished in Photoshop Elements.
The Topaz Simplify settings were my own preset.

Wow. Really like your processing.

[Epik Productions]

A shot I took of Tony Hawk during the filming of his latest commercial.

[larsjames]

I worked from a ten year-old scan of a 35mm slide that I shot of a rainbow over a wheat field in the last few minutes of light.

Adjust Denoise (Super_Smooth), Adjust (Exposure_Correction), Clean (Woodcarving, Curly_Smooth, and CrispStyle). Many layer dupes w/ blending modes and layer opacity adjustments. A few layer masks.

AFTER


BEFORE

[markfour]

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Great photo - great light - great PP:

AFTER

no one wants to have to follow that one ? . . . fools rush in . . .enter sandman . . .

Before:



After:



After cloning distractions out, selected the background and desaturated color slightly then used TA “smooth and flat” faded 50%. Inverted selection and used TA “photo pop”, faded, selected blacks and used TA “Neutralizer by JorgeDiaz” and faded leaving enough to bring out texture and skull logo on the shirt then returned to previous selection for TD “feature enhance”.

[muffi]

Here is the before photo:



And after using Topaz detail, adjust and denoise. Also did some selective masking in PSE6.



I think the effects you can get with Topaz are just amazing, and it's so easy it feels almost like cheating.
Muffi

[larsjames]

This photo was taken about 7 years ago with my first digital camera, a Kodak DC4800 3.2MP.

After cursory adjustments with Curves for tone and various color corrections in Photoshop CS4:

• Duped original layer two times
• 3rd (top) layer Adjust Portrait_Drama, Saturation blending mode, layer opacity 36%
• 2nd layer Simplify Sketch_color, Overlay blending mode, layer opacity 63%
• First layer Adjust Spicify

[Atomicpixal]

Some cropping on the original and then running it through Topaz Adjust and Topaz Clean to create the final 'After' image. Shot on the Southern approach to Palomar Mt. where you can find a lot of motorcycle racing images on almost any weekend.

Al

[tennie]

I want to present 4 stages: original (cropped), after Denoise used 2X, clarity and finally my favorite pastime...painted.

BTW, I think Denoise is amazing. The hawk was so unexpected right in front of me that I had no time to think of settings, light, etc. The orig is so noisy I wouldn't have been able to use it without denoise.

[amcal23]

I worked from a ten year-old scan of a 35mm slide that I shot of a rainbow over a wheat field in the last few minutes of light.

Adjust Denoise (Super_Smooth), Adjust (Exposure_Correction), Clean (Woodcarving, Curly_Smooth, and CrispStyle). Many layer dupes w/ blending modes and layer opacity adjustments. A few layer masks.

AFTER


BEFORE

Good job on the scan keeping the details. Great photo!

[rkpowers]

Sorry to be a dolt but, how exactly do I post images here? I'm not a Twitter'r or Flickr'r....do I need to do it from one of those?

Thanks