Which window?

Just started playing with Elements 4, C&C please.

Out of the camera, just cropped and resized.




Full auto adjust.




B&W conversion




Which one works best for you?

Definitive #1 for me. The warm glow gives it a nice touch. Just try to enhance the blue of the window a bit, and make the shadow a bit stronger, for contrast. That would be my work on it.

Martin.

I prefer the monochrome but as Martin said, up the contrast a bit.

Best wishes, Kris.

Hope you don't mind, Hardgravity. I did some minor things to it, to illustrate my comment above.


I opened it in Elements 6.0. Levelled the histogram a bit. There were some gaps on the right and left side. I copied a layer and burned in the shadows a bit. I selected the 2 blue windows, copied them as a seperate layer and used blend mode:"Screen" at 40% luminosity.
Finally I added some high pass filter at 50 % to get some more detail out of the plaster.

Martin.

Ah the ease of knowing what to do!

Nice to see an alternative manipulation,please leave it up for everybody to compare.
Thanks for the comments so far

I agree with Martin and like what he did, but there's some posterization(?) in the shadow now (at least on my monitor).

Definitely like the tones of #1. The b&w does nothing for me, even if you boosted contrast.

That's due to the very small file, I had to work with.(169kb)
With the original you would have more latitude of course.

Martin.

Sorry for the small file size Martin, that was to make the images load faster!

Thanks to everybody for your comments so far.

The first one, the other 2 look too 'clinical' for me.