Day 03
by Dirt_Diver

Comment:
First I see gwe21's submission, then I moved on to timfythetoo's, and now yours. Three amazing examples of B&W processing. Added all three to my favorites so that I can refer back and see how I'm progressing.

Wall Flower B&W
by timfythetoo

Comment:
You and Gwe21 do such fantastic B&W conversions! I've really got to learn how to do this... Her eyes are captivating. Crystal clear, with even a great amount of detail in the iris.

Jun 03 After.jpg
by Mr_Pants

Comment:
You were able to pull a remarkable amount of detail out of this. Great job!

After Nat 1
by gwe21

Comment:
I can't believe you sat on these! SERIOUSLY!! I'm really in awe of your black and white processing. Makes me realize how much I've got to learn. ;-)

Day 04
by Dirt_Diver

Comment:
When I first started lurking around DPC, I stumbled upon this entry and it's stuck in my head since then. The processing is just awesome, and it was very deserving of that ribbon!

HardBody-2 After.jpg
by wehrmacher

Comment:
OK. I like this edit the best. I would have picked the first edit, but the gradient background kind of makes the statue look like it's floating and not attached to anything. Maybe if you painted in some more black on that left bottom corner? Just a thought.

points-of-interest-AFTER-
by sfalice

Comment:
Wow. Rotating this was a great idea. I don't know why, but it just looks better facing the other way! I also really like the added blue hues. Mu only complaint would be the purple/pinkish halos in the white areas at the top. No idea how to help you fix that, so I'll leave that to some of the real PS gurus in the group. :-)

day2_after.jpg
by love

Comment:
Reminds me of something that Alfred Hitchcock would have liked!

My Backyard Edited
by TCGuru

Comment:
I LOVE me some clouds! Me thinks this would also make a very nice black and white! ;-)

spiderhopper_edit.jpg
by yanko

Comment:

Originally posted by yanko: Originally posted by Ann: I'd really like to know how you did the reflection. That's exceedingly cool. I used the transform tools (scale, distort, perspective and skew) to warp it into shape. I used a duplicate layer for this and I also flipped it. Basically what I did was squeeze the image using the scale transform and then I used the perspective and distort tools to align the details so that it matched up with what is suppose to be creating the reflection. What also helps is to transform the image in parts which is what I did here. In other words, after I resized it into place I then selected part of the layer where the leg detail was and then transformed only that using the perspective and skew tools so that the legs parts would align right. What I did was pretty sloppy. I should have done it later in the editing process which I didn't do so when it was flatten it got a little messed up after I started doing some other things. Ideally the reflection should have some color of the subjects that are supposedly causing the reflection rather than just take on the all of the color of the surface.

Oh, that's all? :-)

Crazy how much detail you were able to pull out of both of these. The eyes on that spider are freakin me out!