Sundown At Las Vegas

[GunnerMan]

Well I felt compeled to do an edit so Itook a shot from my last flight. Not the best shot but its something. I didn't spend much time on it I just used the select, odge, burn, blur, levels, color ballance tools to do this edit.

He is the orig.


And the edit


First thing I did was Select the aircraft using the magnetic lasso tool and invert the selection. I then added some yellow and a tad of red to the whole amage minus the aircraft using color balance.

Then I selected just the sky(including clouds) to get a deeper color in the sky. I again used color ballance and added more red and yellow. I realized the clouds were a tad to red and bright so I took a brush(something not solid, I have a set of grundge brushes) about 10% smaller than the smallest cloud and used the burn tool to get them darker(burn was at 10%).

After that I selected just the mountains. And adjusted the color to them and did a burn to try and bring out the shadows and lessen the light.

Then I selected the aircraft and used burn to darken the darks and lighten the lights. After I deslected everything and blured the mountain tops and the edges of the wings to remove any unwanted artifacts caused by selecting. I also blured the sky a bit to get it a tad better blending.

I do think I added a bit to much color saturation throughout but for lack of ideas I spent about 25 mins on it.

I think it would have been fun to take out the ground and add some water from another shot and try and reflect the sunset on it.  ;D

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Hmm...I like the edit....it looks alot like FS...but still nice

[Sytse]

Nice edit, but the plane doesn't blend in anymore...
Nice colours though.  ;)

[GunnerMan]

Yeah I should have worked on the aircraft a bit more. Thx

[blckhwk1]

Dammit man, photographs go in the photo section. Oh wait... that is a pic? damn nice work