Candy Childrey, PPSA
About the Image(s)
In 2019 we visited Tinturn Abbey in Wales, UK. My image for this month is sort of a study in old vs new. Tinturn Abbey is now abandoned and in ruins and without a roof. The day we were there it was stormy and grey with off and on rain. I replaced the missing stained glass windows with windows from a church in Mississippi and added a grey sky to the missing roof area. And inside the old stone Abbey in front of the new windows we find a young girl in her first communion dress with no shoes and preparing to dance.
1-The new windows were selected, placed in the window openings, (layer changed to smart object), and resized.
2-The image was cropped to remove the sky above the roof line, and dark clouds placed in the openings above and next to the windows.
3-The right side of the image was duplicated and flipped horizontally and placed on the left side to give a more pleasing look which leads down the grass to the windows.
4-The windows were selected and Nik paper toner used to remove the new look. The opacity was reduced to 35% to bring back some of the color. Then a black and white texture was placed over the windows to give them an older look and over the grey sky to remove the smoothness @28% opacity.
5-The young girl was added, shadows under her feet and a Photomorphosis Artistic Selections texture added to the entire image @ 66% opacity. Most of the texture was removed from the young girl.
6-Nik's white neutralizer-wedding dress was added to the image which made the lighting more cohesive on the girl and Abbey.
7-Nik's darken lighten was added as well as OnOne vignette and sharpening. A final stroke was added.
This round’s discussion is now closed!
13 comments posted
(Group 77)
To me, the girl's dress is still much out of character with the lighting elsewhere. Perhaps if you had left some of the texture on the dress (very lightly), it might have made it more consistent?
I didn't have your texture, so I selected a light color on the angel window instead. The girl was enlarged and moved up and inward a bit. I had to cut out some of the pillars to the girl's left to cover the original image of the girl. I then put a solid color mask in the picked angel color over the covering layer and the girl, put it in Color blending mode at reduced opacity, and then turned the mask black and painted with lower opacity white over the girl's flesh and the added grass and pillars.   Posted: 07/02/2021 09:19:12
(Group 54)
(Group 54)
The correction you've made to the dress has really made this image. Well done.   Posted: 07/09/2021 14:25:45
I might also increase the scale of your dancer. At the moment, the abbey dominates. Should the dancer dominate? Depends on your intention, I guess.
Anyway, I had a play. I also gave the dancer a more greenish tint. Not sure that there is any improvement though.   Posted: 07/10/2021 18:54:39