Another one of the before/process/after posts. This time it’s one from the London photos. And to give you more info about what you see, here is a complete description of the layers I used to create this photo.

So first the finished photo:
Morning bus

Before I imported the files into Photoshop, I did few tweaks in Lightroom. I corrected the white balance, added a little noise reduction, turned on lens correction and removed chromatic aberrations.

The processing in Photoshop, the layers from bottom to top were:

1. +1ev exposure used as base for the photo
2. 0ev exposure used to darken the sky and to blend in the second copy of the bus
3. curves affecting only the layer underneath, to brighten the bus a little so it fits into the photo
4. -2ev exposure to darken the clock on the tower
5. +2ev exposure to brighten few parts of the photo
6. contrast added to basic mid-tones mask
7. color effex pro contrast to recover a little of the local contrast
8+9. blurred layer to add glow and a layer to lighten the effect
10. brightened the overly dark areas
11. added more detail using high pass sharpening
12. hue/saturation to correct the sky color
13. color balance to correct and overly purple tint
14. curves to brighten the lights of the buses
15. once more brightened the dark areas
16. toned down the saturation on the mostly saturated parts

You can also see a part of one of the luminosity masks here (I combined two screenshots for this).
morningbus-process
And here is the original before photo.
IMG_7619

I was really busy today, and away from home for the whole day. So not really any time to edit and prepare a new photo for the blog. So instead another one of the process series today. You will notice that I did not do many changes on this photo, but is not about how many changes you made, but if they make the photo look better :)

This is the final photo, open the full post to see the original shot and how it looked in photoshop:
Traffic at the Arc De Triomphe - Process

And we are at the end. If everything went as it should, from tomorrow I be back to posting my regular new photos. Hope you liked this little change, and maybe I do it sometime again :). And here is the last photo.
This is the final photo, open the full post to see the original shot and how it looked in photoshop:
The Urban Jungle

And here is the number 9 from this 10 post series. This time it one of the shots of the Bratislava castle. So here goes:
This is the final photo, open the full post to see the original shot and how it looked in photoshop:
Usually under water

Slowly approaching the end of this 10 part series. Already on number 8 :) .
This is the final photo, open the full post to see the original shot and how it looked in photoshop:
The bonsai tree

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