What Color is Water? Color correction fun

[Kraellin]

cj, dee dee,

i was originally going to use the image attached on this thread, but it was all underwater and too much work for what i wanted to do. still, if your chamber of commerce is interested....

Craig

[philbach]

Craig how did you know about my swimming pond in the back yard of my SC home?

[AutumnRae]

Hiya,
I'm new to the forum, but I decided to go ahead and see what I could do with the skiing man anyway.
I did some selective sharpening along the edge of the water on the rooster tail. I also selectively desaturated along the white water to make it look like a more natural spray. To add the blue to the water I created a new layer with the blending mode on color, used the Render:Clouds filter with colors set to turquoise and dark blue, gaussian blurred that layer for less abrupt color shifts, set the opacity to about 50%, and then selectively removed color from the spray. (When I use the word selectively, I am talking about using a brush to paint in/out the layer mask.) I'm using Photoshop CS2.
Now, after all this, I hope I manage to upload the image right
Cheers,
AutumnRae

[Kraellin]

phil,

i'm not real sure if these are crocs or gators, but if you have either in your swimming pond, why, good luck it always surprised me when visiting florida to see some lake or pond near a residential area with gators swimming and sunning themselves so near to where humans lived, but the natives dont seem to hardly even notice. and when i say 'natives', i mean both the humans and the gators

autumnrae,

welcome to RP!

nice job

Craig

[CJ Swartz]

Craig, the movie "Jaws" scared me out of the water decades ago, but your croc/gators make me hum it all over again.... dum dum, dum dum, dum dum...

Your image works very well.


AutumnRae -- welcome to RetouchPro! Your image looks good, and your workflow sounds "differently interesting". You uploaded correctly first time -- that's better than I did when I started!

[Duv]

Anybody up for some moonlight skiing??

Cheers
Dave

[Kraellin]

thanks cj

duv, very cool

Craig

[AutumnRae]

Originally Posted by CJ Swartz

AutumnRae -- welcome to RetouchPro! Your image looks good, and your workflow sounds "differently interesting". You uploaded correctly first time -- that's better than I did when I started!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!
"Differently interesting"? Hmm, I think I'll take that as a compliment... My workflow usually only makes sense to me. Its a strange combination of actual studied techniques, mixed with the chaos of being partially self-taught. I tend to use a ton of layer masks when I work, mostly because then I feel like I'm painting right on the image. I guess it makes me feel like more of an artist and like less of a digital slave.
Cheers,
AutumnRae

[Swampy]

AUTUMRAE...EXCELLENT! I like the additional transparency in the spray. Good job and welcome aboard!

DUV.. It's got a lot of impact! I could see it used as the background for an ad in a water sports magazine. Adding more black affects the viscosity of the water too, it looks thick like he was skiing in oil, but the spray brings you back to reality.

[bart_hickman]

'tis the season.

Bart

[Swampy]

Too Funny, Bart.

But just in time for the Christmas Parade of Boats on the lake in my back yard. LOL

[emarts]

Well, here's my attempt. I tried to make it look as natural as possible.

[lkroll]

Just adjusted the colors slightly (via a color fill set to multiply, merged down and set the result to color; masked out the person and auto-contrasted).

[ozonew4m]

tried adding a bit of sun but it now looks like hes skiing in a swimming pool

[emilylt87]

I wish water really looked like this:

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[dkcoats]

Whee! Skiing on the Mississippi!

[MiningArt]

My water version.

[Sweetlight]

Better really, really late than never.......Those are crocs.......more elongated snouts and sharper as opposed to the gator which has a more blunt, rounded notstril.... There is also difference in their scaling but I won't go too Cliff Claven on you.

[rebaccawood911]

Wow thats cool yo have changed it many colors but natural color looks very very beautiful,,,,

[BobZZZ]

This may be a bit too simple Just converted to LAB steepened the a+b used blend if and a mask to leave the skier as before.

[Swampy]

Nice, BobZZZ.

[Sweetlight]

Since I am feeling a bit on the philosophical side tonight I thought I would add this to the mix. I was gonna type in my own words but Wikipedia; which I really do not trust had a good write-Up...........Water really has no color.........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_water

[kirills]

That's my try, used bi-color filter and brushed with dark green color overlay layer with 42% opacity

Thanks, Kirill

[Jack The Ripper]

Mud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chillin]

First, I did a colorizing "rough draft" & then in Raw I made final adjustments.

[Janet Petty]

Good question, what color is water. People have mentioned algae and other substances that tend to color water. This "water" suffers from lack of sunshine...and that includes my rendition, which was completed in just a few minutes using selective color and a few masks.

Jpg compression has adversely affected this picture and made it look even colder. Brrr. He now looks like the water is much colder than before I posted. And the cyan is way darker than on the original. Oh well.

Janet

[xxxliger]

I like the variant of Swampy - awesome work ) well-done )