That looks friggin sweet! Got Topaz Adjust 3. Pretty cool plug-in. Any others I should get? I'm a PS "newbie".

 

Holy chit! I love it. Thanks a lot, now I have to choose which one I want for my new sig.

 

Exactly which effect do you use on this one? Looks great!

 

Rob, Adjust and Denoise 3 are the two I use the most. DeNoise is pretty powerful and can save some old photos you may have laying around, taken with an older camera. I know it has helped me with 5 year old photos.

As far as the truck above, I:
Adjusted the levels (white/black), lowered it, used the magic extractor to take away the old sky, opened the truck and new foreground up in topaz and hit it with Spicify, and then back through it with exposure correction, then back through it with a custom adjust. Then I opened the adjust hue/saturation tool in PS and brought some of the red back out. Then I found a sky background I had, created a background layer and placed it there. I combined the two to create one image. Then I used the Clone tool to recreate some tree line and bushes that were tweaked during the extraction. Then I defringed it, and used denoise to smooth the truck out. Then I rendered a spot light coming from the right to shine down on the truck to make the reflections on the windshield and hood make sense.

Hard to explain in detail without typing a book.

 

know what ya mean about explaining i know how to do it... i just cant explain it lolol

 

greencrew: Here are a couple I picked out of your gallery since you didnt have a preference.
I gave you a lift in the first one.



This is a cinema scope.

 

FOR ANYONE WITHOUT EDITING SOFTWARE... Picnik is a free program you can use online to do some editing. They have some cool stuff. I use it sometimes to finish effects like the Focal B&W feature.
http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome

 

Cool! Thanks! Those are two of my favorites. I really need to find a place to take pics like yours above, with the trains, and graffiti.

 

Moltenice, you've got some serious talent. Those last pics look amazing. I played with the plug-ins a bit but never got anything to look like those.

 

Hey Moltenice, I'd like to see you do your magic on one of my pictures in my album.

 

Well, I opened a couple up and gave it a shot.
I will admit I was sort of on the fence about them. I am not sure what camera or settings you had used, but I ran into some pixel related issues.

Here you go though.

 

Looks awesome dude

 

Thank You... and thanks to everyone who commented.

To those learning PS, it takes a good amount of time. I still consider myself a rookie, and learn something new everytime I edit a photo (thats why I try and do more and more of them).
if anyone needs helping doing something I can try and help, or point out a reference to help you out.

 

=D

 

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After =)