Can’t create a perfect "Dream" effect to a nature photo

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landemaine
Apr 14, 2007
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I tried to follow this tutorial: http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-6350.htm l

Using this photo: http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/original.jpg but the result is crappy: http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/result.jpg

What I’d like to have is a result as good as this:
http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/perfect.jpg

Do you know how I could do it?
TIA.

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Joe
Apr 15, 2007
Talker wrote:

On 14 Apr 2007 08:08:15 -0700, "Charles A. Landemaine" wrote:

I tried to follow this tutorial: http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-6350.htm l
Using this photo: http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/original.jpg but the result is crappy: http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/result.jpg
What I’d like to have is a result as good as this:
http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/perfect.jpg

Do you know how I could do it?
TIA.

I have been playing around, trying to duplicate that effect with your image Charles, and I don’t think you can get the exact same results with that particulr image. The reason seems to be because there is much more foliage, and a lot less light behind the foliage, as in the example you gave.
I used the tutorial here http://photoshopforall.com/?p=15 but I didn’t get the exact results you wanted.(one thing, if you use that tutorial, lighten the background image first. I went to Image – Adjust – Brightness/Contrast and moved the brightness slider up to about 50.)
I also tried using the image you have, duplicated the layer, then applied the Gaussian Blur (about 1.6) to it. I then used the history brush set to about 20%, and applied it to the trees and some of the foliage in the foreground. Even with that, it still didn’t have the exact look of the example you posted. Again I think it’s because the example has a lone tree with a fair amount of light behind it. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

Talker

You can get similar using one or few action’s you can get them FREE from Central Action web site. I don’t remember the exact link but probably something like

www.centralatn.com or something like that. But you can just GOOGLE for "central action" or "center action" (?) and you should be able to find it.
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Talker
Apr 15, 2007
On 14 Apr 2007 08:08:15 -0700, "Charles A. Landemaine" wrote:

I tried to follow this tutorial: http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-6350.htm l
Using this photo: http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/original.jpg but the result is crappy: http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/result.jpg
What I’d like to have is a result as good as this:
http://www.auriance.com/docs/tmp/perfect.jpg

Do you know how I could do it?
TIA.

I have been playing around, trying to duplicate that effect with your image Charles, and I don’t think you can get the exact same results with that particulr image. The reason seems to be because there is much more foliage, and a lot less light behind the foliage, as in the example you gave.
I used the tutorial here http://photoshopforall.com/?p=15 but I didn’t get the exact results you wanted.(one thing, if you use that tutorial, lighten the background image first. I went to Image – Adjust – Brightness/Contrast and moved the brightness slider up to about 50.)
I also tried using the image you have, duplicated the layer, then applied the Gaussian Blur (about 1.6) to it. I then used the history brush set to about 20%, and applied it to the trees and some of the foliage in the foreground. Even with that, it still didn’t have the exact look of the example you posted. Again I think it’s because the example has a lone tree with a fair amount of light behind it. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

Talker
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landemaine
Apr 16, 2007
Thank you guys.

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