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!







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

[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



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