Creative interpretations: railway bridge

[Titia]

This is a railway bridge just before you enter the famous 6,6 km long Westerschelde tunnel in my land.

Second photo is my interpretation.

PSP7, used a lot of layers, lightening, sepia, merging. Don't know exactly anymore.

Have fun.

Titia

[Legacy~Art]

Psp7 contrast to black, septia, aged, added to filmclipping.

[kiska]

Fries with that?

[Janet Petty]

Is this all roads lead to golden arches? Or is it follow the yellow lighted (brick) road? In either case, I like your vibrant approach. Sooie.

Legacy, right on with the film. It looks sophisticated that way. Good going.

Nice photo to work on Titia. I like how you treated it as well. It is dramatic and bold.

Janet

[jaykita]

Kiska, i love that! Do tell. Was it layer masks?????

[kiska]

Judy, Sooie, Thanks. I usually put in the steps , BUT I FORGOT what I did. The filters were spatter,cut out, poster edges. Lot of masks. Desat with mask and brought back some colors????

[Titia]

It's so nice to see the different creations coming from one photo.

I'm enjoying myself here.

Titia

[TylerRB]

Here is my rendition....

[CJ Swartz]

My bridge... Nice range of looks here; from natural to "Kiska-esque"

[Titia]

WOW Tyler and C.J. that's just beautiful. Love it, love it.
Thanks

Titia (who's up too late 3.47am )

[cardmnal]

These all look great. I went with an "electric" look.

Don't remember exactly what i did but i know i started by desaturating and then turning it into a dual tone image.
After i set my colors and curves in dual tone i returned to RGB, made selections, and created color adjustment layers.
Adjusted levels.
duplicated the background and stylize>glowing edges. applied a luminosity blend at 40% opacity.

something like that anyway

[TylerRB]

CJ....

I like your interpretation. Unexpected!

T

[TylerRB]

Cardmnal....

The purple in the steet lines create an interesting illusion of movement that adds to the electric effect. Like a fast-frame shot..

T

[Titia]

Cardmnal, I really like your version, it's sparkling.

Titia

[SWEngineer]

Great work all. This one joins the more surrealistic versions I suppose. It's another Elements2 random walk documented thanks to the history palette.

BG.
A: Decolor
B: GradientMap Adj layer (violet to orange)
C: MergeVis(A,B). InkOutlines
D: Copy C. DryBrush. PaintEngine. (55% opacity)
E: MergeVisible (C,D). Xero-BadDream. (70% opacity)
F: MergeVisible(C,D,E). Impressionist-Geometric:ChaoticChrome modified. (HardLight, 54%). [ChaoticChrome looks like a great starting point for abstract interpretations. Time to play...]
G: MergeVis(C,D,F - E turned off). Posterize-8.

-Mark

[Janet Petty]

Wonderful Mark. The effect is one of a big splashy sunset gone wild. Love it.

Janet

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by kiska

Fries with that?

Priceless.

I was so taken with photobobbie's interpretation that can be seen HERE, I endeavored to recreate the effect. To preserve the effort I wrote an action that can be downloaded HERE.

The first attachment shows the image after I resized it and applied Levels and Hue Saturation for color.

2nd attachment: Substituted textire = Canvas

3rd attachment:
After running the action I turned on layer D1 ("Thick lines") and erased some of the lines by painting black on the layer mask. I also did some tweaking of the Hue/Sat adjustment layer.

Thanks, Titia, for sharing a bit of your countryside.

~Danny~

[jaykita]

Photobobbie's interpretation is truly inspirational!!! Here's mine.

[photobobbie]

I removed the color, used a neon glow filter, changed the hue, added grain, and then lightning and a frame.

Bobbie

[photobobbie]

Thanks for your nice comments on my village photo.

Bobbie

[Titia]

And thank you all for all those beautiful interpretations.
Never knew a bridge could take on so many forms.

Titia

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by jaykita

Photobobbie's interpretation is truly inspirational!!! Here's mine.

Mine too. i did an awful lot of tooling around to arrive at this one, so don't ask how I did it, please!

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

Mine too. i did an awful lot of tooling around to arrive at this one, so don't ask how I did it, please!

I had to try a second time and I think that I got what I wanted this time......

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

I had to try a second time and I think that I got what I wanted this time......

Nice tooling on both.

If you repeat this process on another pic, keep track of your steps. They are definitely worth knowing/sharing.

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Nice tooling on both.

If you repeat this process on another pic, keep track of your steps. They are definitely worth knowing/sharing.

Is there an easy way to keep track of steps, or is it as always, "the best way is the long way?" Write them down?

georgeHOLMES of Texas

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by gholmes1936

Is there an easy way to keep track of steps, or is it as always, "the best way is the long way?" Write them down?

georgeHOLMES of Texas

Something I picked up a few years back that works for me is naming layers as I create them, e.g., Unsharp Mask (200, 1.0, 0) or Dry Brush (3,5,2). As the image takes shape I duplicate the last layer modified and apply another effect. This way when I look at the layer stack from bottom to top I can see the progression of effects applied. Works great if two months from now I want to see how a given result was achieved.

It takes a little discipline to get into the habit of doing it this way, but it sure is a lifesaver if your memory is as bad as mine is.

Physically writing out (or typing) steps is an option, but is limited by not being able to "tie" a writeup with a given image file unless you're a lot more organized than I am.

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Something I picked up a few years back that works for me is naming layers as I create them, e.g., Unsharp Mask (200, 1.0, 0) or Dry Brush (3,5,2). As the image takes shape I duplicate the last layer modified and apply another effect. This way when I look at the layer stack from bottom to top I can see the progression of effects applied. Works great if two months from now I want to see how a given result was achieved.

It takes a little discipline to get into the habit of doing it this way, but it sure is a lifesaver if your memory is as bad as mine is.

Physically writing out (or typing) steps is an option, but is limited by not being able to "tie" a writeup with a given image file unless you're a lot more organized than I am.

Thanks Danny, what a great tip. My memory is even worse, so this would be a good discipline for me.

[PamSav]

I thought I'd just jump in with my tip for remembering what I've done in PSCS.

I have the Word Notepad open while I'm working and make notes in that about what I've done and what settings I've used, then when I've finished I copy all the information and paste it into the File Info part of PS. That way the information is always with the image.

[raniday]

when I've finished I copy all the information and paste it into the File Info part of PS.
Pam, I don't understand what you mean. Maybe you could give a screen shot of where you copy this info?

[gholmes1936]

Originally Posted by SWEngineer

Great work all. This one joins the more surrealistic versions I suppose. It's another Elements2 random walk documented thanks to the history palette.

BG.
A: Decolor
B: GradientMap Adj layer (violet to orange)
C: MergeVis(A,B). InkOutlines
D: Copy C. DryBrush. PaintEngine. (55% opacity)
E: MergeVisible (C,D). Xero-BadDream. (70% opacity)
F: MergeVisible(C,D,E). Impressionist-Geometric:ChaoticChrome modified. (HardLight, 54%). [ChaoticChrome looks like a great starting point for abstract interpretations. Time to play...]
G: MergeVis(C,D,F - E turned off). Posterize-8.

-Mark

Hey, I really like that effect. Thanks for sharing