Creative Effects Challenge No. 179 - RAW St. Augustine Lighthouse

Took the image into Smart Photo Editor and applied the Solarization effect by superdave - .
Back in PSE created a black layer mask and brushed back in the parts of the image shown and placed a shadow frame on the image.

First attempt at a basic edit. I've been playing with some recent Matt Kloskowski presets that take advantage of being able to incorporate AI selections of sky and subjects into presets in LR and PS ACR. This was a really good image to try them out. Posting the details wouldn't be very helpful as I tweaked the presets as well as adjusting the preset amounts (another new addition to presets). So basically I did a bit of perspective adjusting and cropping to straighten the buildings and then used the presets to adjust the sky, foreground and subject (the lighthouse) separately using the AI selections that LR came up with. Here's where I finished up so far.



Tony

Used the Raw image with an my edited one then used flattened with Luminosity.

Thanks Helen, I just remembered on the edited image I used a yellow photo filter and when I used the Luminosity, windows went to white light.

I used the high key filter in CE 4 plus a touch of swirly strokes from Topaz Impression 1.




I then used that image to create a watercolor based on the Scrappy Irene tut.

Nice edit and just under the wire, Tony. Tomorrow is the deadline for this challenge.

Thanks for letting us "play" with your Lighthouse, jim0004 .  It was a challenge to try to come up with a creative edit.
Nice to see my picture included in your selections, as well as those of  Lillias (Lillias ) and Vicki (VickiD ).

If you would like to share how you edited this image it wouldn't have to adhere to the guidelines for the challenge.

I always enjoy the RAW challenge and invite all of our members to consider submitting an image for the next one. Feel free to respond to this post or send me a PM.