Welcome back to Mandarin Orange Monday. I am going to enjoy looking at YOUR orange images and I am also excited about showing you MINE.
The Orange-ing of Blue Fish Point
Blue Fish Point is at North Head, Sydney Harbour. It is a short walk from Manly Beach, past very pretty Shelley Beach and up through a bush track until you finally arrive at this spectacular view. Down below is a popular fishing spot, around to the left a popular surfing spot and in the distance the beautiful Northern Beaches.
Once again I had a lot of fun playing with Photoshop. My aim was to increase the orange - of course- and decrease the saturation of other colours. I used Saturation and Selective Colour mostly. I also increased depth using a new trick learned from Rachel at It's Challenging! First you duplicate a layer, then change it to Overlay and the apply the High Pass Filter.
In the third image I took out all colour except red and yellow and adjusted tones to give more contrast.
And then I had REAL fun. I selected what I considered to be the most interesting area - mainly because of it's textures and applied both Poster Edges and Accented Edges filters. Using the Magic Wand I then selected the ocean area and filled it with Cyan. There I lightened it then using the Shadows/Highlights adjustments. Since I couldn't decide which one I liked best - I kept both.
Finally I selected a new area and toned down the cyan so that it became almost monochromatic. I applied Poster Edges again which reduced it to a semi-abstract sort of image.
I wonder if you can see where I used the Graphic Tablet pen?
42 comments:
I love the edits and your tip about depth is one to remember. Cheers
Love your work. Thanks for hosting! Have a fabulous week.
Liz @ MLC
Liz @ YACB
very pretty edits!
You have some beautiful photos here.
I thought of sharing this week but I have no recent orange photos. I have some beauties from last year.
Very cool processing... well done!
Your editing looks awesome. Sounds like a fun challenge. I hope to join in on the fun.
Thanks so much for your kind comment on my blog.
Great processing!
Thank you so much for the invite to this meme, - Orange is a color we will be happy to work with.
Thanks for hosting!
Your editing is well done! Very colorful and I love the color orange too!
I can't ever remember how I edited a photo once I get to the 'I love it' part ;) I love how you did this and also included instructions. I'll have to give it a shot with some of my beach photos. Very inspiring.
I love the photo and all the different tweak to applied to it. Beautiful. If you get a chance stop by and see the water on my side of the world. No color addition on mine. Laura
Stunning photo effects!...Christine
You have such beautiful scenery to choose from and your edits are wonderful ... I am somehow drawn to the ones that you added the Cyan to. Maybe it is the contrast that sets up the orange. In any event, they are all awesome. Thank you for another week of Mandarin Orange :)
Andrea @ From The Sol
Beautiful pictures of a very beautiful place. Thanks for the tip on Mandarin Orange Monday, now I know where my orange pictures "to go" :-)
What fun edits!
An interesting process in search of orange. Nice landscape.
Saludos.
I love the semi-abstract that you came up with - very clever!
Rachel x
I love your fun edits, especially the last one! :)
Those are gorgeous!
Great looking place.
Thanks everyone! I look forward to see your work in the coming weeks:)
Danielle I often forget too but sometimes I stop halfway and write down what I do remember. I probably leave out things though. I tried to do a screen shot of the History on PS- but I could select Grab and the History window at the same time - there must be a way....
the first photo is my favorite! excellent work!
oh my gosh, what a fantastic job you did on converting that photo into a painting look. amazing. hope you could visit my mellow yellow monday here: http://www.jollytoes.com/2012/08/05/the-yellow-cabs-in-new-york-city-and-sephora-building/
Beautiful and interesting series!
I am so glad to have discovered your meme cause I love orange. I will definitely join you next time. Thanks....Christine
I love all the things you did with the photo
I especially like the last few shots
Gorgeous captures Lorik -- I may have to link up my torti cat photo. Not much orange, but some! :)
These pictures are very well edited.
They become so lively and lovely.
Although I tend to like the originals best, your effects gave a new meaning to 'orange'.....the last 3 look like they were painted!
Thanks for visiting my Yellow Shot.
Sorry I don't have an orange to share.
Cheers!
JzB
Heisann!
Beautiful landscape painted in orange by you ;:OD)
Simply beautiful!
A late visit from Mellow Yellow Monday. Would love for you to come by and comment on my my YELLOW post. Have a good week!!
intresting to see the different versions of the shot.
Thanks everyone:)
Fun shots. I like the cyan sea.
Lovely photos! I like the last two the best with the contrasting colors.
Thanks for linking up for WW!
I'm now your newest follower :)
Paula
lifeasweknowitbypaula.blogspot.com
Well, I had nothing orange this week to linkup, but...
are you going to tell where you used the tablet?
Or did you, and I missed it??
Where did i use my new graphics tablet? In the last two images.
I used the burn tool in the long grass and the "twiggy plant" at the front. Also a bit on the scrubby orange grass on the rock.
It was so much easier using a pen instead of a mouse to do that. Over the years it has go so much easier - first my clunky old usb mice, then wireless and finally my new apple mouse. But a pen?! Almost like real drawing on paper!
Thanks for remembering Deb:)
Thank you everyone for visiting and being part of Mandarin Orange Monday:)
what a fun blog hop.
SO gorgeous! Thank you for sharing on WTS#44!
Hihi, I just arrived to your page and scrolled. Didn't read, just looked at your photos.
Thought to my self that you must really like orange...all dess landscape in orange...then I noticed the challenge...hihi....
/Lillianna
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