Austin C. - Out By The Lake

This photo was taken by the like next to the Hoover Public Library. It was taken with my Nikon D3300 with manual adjustments to ISO, aperature, and more. There are three separate parts of the image that were edited in different fashions. The lake is probably the least edited. I selected the water and changed the hues a little bit as well as brightness, contrast, and a few adjustments in curves. The trees between the lake and sky probably have the most done to them. They were originally on a spectrum of dark to light greens. I sectioned off the trees and turned them into more of a deep red color. After this I placed a ripple filter on the selected area and refined the edge and blended a little so there was a slight bleed over onto the lake and sky. The refined edge also allowed some of the color blending easier to manage with the purple and red from the lake and trees. For this image I had to clear the sky completely of what was in it. For this I sampled the most uniform color of the sky and used the paintbrush and stamp tool to remove multiple poles, power lines, and tree limbs from the area. I then placed a pattern from another image that makes up the rainbow drip effect. I used the clone tool to spread that pattern across the sky as well as get rid of as many hard edges that I could see. I then added a noise filter across the layer and tried to blend the edges into the trees as well as I could while still keeping them separate. I then made the sky a more cool tone and brought out the blue and green tones of the layer more. This was done to help it fit with the water more. At this point I was happy with the photo and just made slight adjustments to curves and such with the image as a whole as well as doges and burned different parts to accentuate different parts and details.