Pigeon Point Lighthouse - Tell us how you...

[uniqcrafts]

Here is Pigeon Point Lighthouse off the coast of California. It's located near the city of Pascadero. It was a beautiful area and was grateful for PSE 5.0 for saving my picture. I also thought I would include the directions if anyone wanted to try it themselves. All I ask is post your after and let me see. Was posting the directions worth it?

Thanks and enjoy!

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r206/uniqcrafts/2007-07-02-029--Pigeon-Poin.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r206/uniqcrafts/2007-07-02-029-Pigeon-Point.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r206/uniqcrafts/2007-07-02-029-Light-House-.jpg

Ok here goes:

Duplicate layer (Cntrl J)
Enhance>Smart Fix
Enhance>Smart Fix
Duplicate Layer (Cntrl J)
Create Adjustment layer>Levels>Channel
Red: Input Levels 0 1.00 229
Green: 0 1.00 239
Blue: 0 1.00 246
Create Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation
Edit: Master
Saturation +23
Lightness +2
Cntrl+Alt+Shift+E
Enhance>Auto Sharpen
Change Opacity to 50%
Create New Layer
Clone (Take out the wire fence that I'm standing in front of)
Cntrl+Alt+Shift+E
Orton Effect
Gaussian Blur was at 35.4

[pinkpepper]

michelle, i love the super saturated colors, and dreamy quality to your lighthouse shot. i'll give the tutorial a whirl and get back with ya, thanks for the directions :)

[John L Gray]

Michelle,

Nice effect on your after image. Enjoyed viewing your gallery.


John

[nkeevers]

Michelle, your image is just beautiful! Love that effect on it! Thanks for the instructions.

[AngelicKim]

Michelle, what a beautiful fix. Thanks for the instructions.

[Orphanannie]

Hi Michelle,

Thanxs for the tut on this... Beautiful photo:) Have time today..... Must play with this a few others. Think I will adding a few new images to my gallery later today or tomorrow. Lots of new challenages:o

[uniqcrafts]

John: Thanks and your the first person to comment about my Gallery. It's nice to know people actually look at it. I have never posted on the Gallery Forum... maybe I should. Thanks again.

Thanks everyone and I sure hope I get some takers on the directions. If someone has a different idea for the picture than be sure to post the directions so that I can try your idea.

Thanks.

[pinkpepper]

alrighty, so sorry it took so long to get back here .. anyways, here's my try at your tutorial, and i'm afraid mine doesn't look as pretty as yours :p

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1G0WwxDkCG0IwYsrspEchdtOh08Xv0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1G0WwxDkCG0IwYsrspEchdtOh08Xv0)

thanks again for the lesson

[swalkr]

What program did you use? Elements (*), or the big brother. Some of the steps did not appear in my program. I have PSE4.

[pinkpepper]

i used pse4 as well, and i found everything but the autosharpen. i was wondering too if that was a pse5 thingy

[pinkpepper]

as for the bigbrother program, i have cs2 but from what i recall, there is no autosharpen and no smartfix adjustments

[smiles]

Beautiful! I love it! Coastal scenes are so sooothing to me. Thanks for sharing!

[uniqcrafts]

I do have PSE 5.0 and don't know PSE 4 at all so I can't tell you what else you can try instead. Maybe you could ask someone who may have used both. Let me know what you find out.

[douglas m scott]

Michelle,
In your Gallery, (I'm Three) Gorgeous Eyes, wonderful Picture.
doug

[Chuck S.]

i used pse4 as well, and i found everything but the autosharpen. i was wondering too if that was a pse5 thingy

Yes, Enhance>Autosharpen is a PSE 5 thing....or thingy....!:)

However, I wouldn't think the use of Autosharpen vs. other sharpening techniques would be critical to the success of this method.

[uniqcrafts]

Autosharpen simply sharpens for you but most of the time it over sharpens. So for me I simply change the opacity so it's not over sharpened. Now I'm sure that's now how you are supposed to do it, but that is how I do it. As in so many things... many ways to accomplish the same thing.