This week is a standard After Before photo challenge from Stacy at Visual Venturing. I reached back into my bag of old photos to find one that I really wanted to do some crazy fun things to this week. Here’s the final result:
So, are you wondering what the original looked like? Here it is:
I love this image, and I’ve posted a black and white version of it here. When I opened the image in PhotoShop, I used these settings on the RAW converter:
These resulted in an image with heightened sharpness, colors, and contrast.
Next, I created a duplicate layer and selected the Polar Coordinates filter at 100%.
I love how the Steinway & Sons wrapped. Finally, I added a softening gradient fill layer using using the following settings:
- Gradient: transparent to white
- Style: Radial
- Angle: 170.54
- Scale: 100%
- Reverse and Align with layer selected
And voila!
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Super fun! And the original is so elegant too:)
Thanks!
Amazing! Thanks for the lesson. 😉
You’re welcome, Helen! It was fun experimenting.
I’ve done a lot of experimenting myself with that polar coordinates – never quite sure what might emerge and it IS fun experimenting.
Wow, how cool is that. Fun editing.
Really great use of polar coordinates and looks like such a fun image. Very nice editing.
Thanks, Ben.
A really funky image, Nancy. I do love the B&W too. 🙂
Thanks! I’ve had a lot of fun with this one.
Great work. Such a fun edit.
Wow! As my daughter sometimes says “Way cool.” 😉 Who would think that a keyboard could work so well done in this way? I did pop over to your B&W image and love that as well 🙂 Fun, informative post, Nancy!
Very interesting idea and an excellent execution. Great work!
Thanks! It was fun playing with some of the features and settings in Photoshop.