[Pat]

This is the office of the Newcastle City Council, it's a bit out of the ordinary - its a rainy dull Saturday afternoon and I had a bit of fun with the original following a tutorial on the PhotoshopSupport.com website. I am trying to upgrade my pp skills

[Paul.R.Lindqvist]

Cool!

I like the effect.

The building looks like a giant lens.

/Paul L.

[Irma]

Pat, I really like a lot what you did in this picture... Very nice treatment... My only suggestion would be to replace to sky.. I think a lovely blue sky with some interesting clouds would add more interest to your image....

[Pat]

You are right Irma, should have paid more attention to the sky, but it was my first attempt. I am thinking of using this technique on the photographs that will accompany my historical publication I am working on at the moment.

[wulinka]

really interesting processing. like it! Can we see the original, or would you rather not show it?

Actually, I like the white sky, goes well with the strong contrast in the building's structure

Uli

[Pat]

original image as requested :/

[Don Schaeffer]

Shades of the old days. I can remember being hoisted on the petard for doing this. However it llooks good to me. You can almost make a dishtowel out of it.

[Irma]

Thanks Pat...

When I saw your original picture I realized you had detail in the sky and I gave it a try with my original idea of having a blue sky in the picture.

Tried with the plastic doll action but I think it didn't work because of the size of the picture but it is a nice action to work with architecture pictures.

I am sure you can get detail in the clouds, if you have a raw file, and work with two exposures... So there is no need to add another sky... I am testing a post processing with high pass filter. It gives a nice result in some pictures and I liked in this one.

[Pat]

More subtle change, I like it, can you tell me more about the plastic doll action, never heard of it and no info when I google it.

[Irma]

Pat,

Here you can see a picture I posted time ago with this action. I added another picture too...

http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/viewto...124#p58124