"Photoshop this boring photo" contest/activity type thing...
Josh Root 
, Oct 20, 2009; 07:53 p.m.
Let's give this a try.
Photo.net member Steven Richardson was nice enough to spearhead this, get me a suitably boring photo, and to keep kicking my butt when I got behind about making it happen.
THE GOAL:
To take a boring photo and do some photoshop (or other editing program) magic to it and make it more interesting.
NOT THE GOAL:
To critique or discuss the original photo. The point of the photo is to be sub-par. So telling everyone that you think it is sub-par is a waste of everyone's time, including yours. this photo might work well, or it might not work at all. This is a new sort of thing for the Digital Darkroom forum and it may take us a few tries to figure out what is best as far as subject matter.
HERE IS THE IMAGE:
The photo is attached both as a 700 pixel wide in-line image and a full size JPEG. Feel free to use whichever you like, but please upload your finished image as a 700 pixel wide image so we can see them all easily.
small version
Responses
Matt Laur 
, Oct 20, 2009; 08:17 p.m.
OK, why not. Some shots just need to become graphic art. I've just done a test print on black velvet! W00t!
Because ... yeah. That one sort of brings out the heavy artillery.
Thomas Sullivan , Oct 20, 2009; 08:32 p.m.
yeah, I agree Matt....some just have to become graphic art....
thru alien eyes....
Jeremy Richter 
, Oct 20, 2009; 09:04 p.m.
nothing too lavish here
Ivan Avellan , Oct 20, 2009; 09:53 p.m.
my try
Bruce MacPhail , Oct 20, 2009; 10:01 p.m.
Bit of a crossbreed.
Sheldon Nalos , Oct 20, 2009; 10:19 p.m.
Textures
L.J. Leonard , Oct 20, 2009; 10:30 p.m.
probably how a child would see... different angle
different point of view
Sarah Fox , Oct 20, 2009; 11:02 p.m.
Oh man, you guys are no fun! ;-) Kinda crude, but...
Rick Lewis 
, Oct 20, 2009; 11:31 p.m.
another
Jeremy Richter , Oct 21, 2009; 12:00 a.m.
with a little more flavor
Tim Lookingbill 
, Oct 21, 2009; 12:15 a.m.
One of my distressed Kodachrome film effect settings created and saved as a preset in ACR 4.6 with some color tweaks and cropping.
ACR 4.6
Steve Reason , Oct 21, 2009; 12:51 a.m.
Too much to drink...
Rick Lewis , Oct 21, 2009; 01:00 a.m.
Sarah Fox , Oct 21, 2009; 01:02 a.m.
What to do with the goofy looking tree?
OK, off to bed now. It's been fun. :-)
Thomas Sullivan , Oct 21, 2009; 01:24 a.m.
whoops.....sorry, you're right. Guess I was looking elsewhere ;-)
Michael Axel , Oct 21, 2009; 02:24 a.m.
Was there a Leica M9 as a giveaway to the winner?
Parallel.
Anthea Scotte 
, Oct 21, 2009; 06:11 a.m.
This is excellant, love the posts so far....when can we do it again?
Future storm....
Anders Hingel , Oct 21, 2009; 07:33 a.m.
Boring shots I would normally delete, and sometimes regret, but if you provoke me here is suggestion that might forcethe attention of the viewer - maybe !
Anders Hingel , Oct 21, 2009; 07:34 a.m.
Boring shots I would normally delete, and sometimes regret, but if you provoke me here is suggestion that might forcethe attention of the viewer - maybe !
Anders Hingel , Oct 21, 2009; 07:39 a.m.
Try again - and then I give up if. .
Thomas Powell 
, Oct 21, 2009; 12:46 p.m.
What a cool idea ...
Hope this isn't too over the top???
More interesting?
David Lindblom , Oct 21, 2009; 01:01 p.m.
On my lunch break...
Sarah Fox , Oct 21, 2009; 01:39 p.m.
"California Divided Highway" ;-)
David Thomasson , Oct 21, 2009; 02:04 p.m.
Matt Laur , Oct 21, 2009; 02:21 p.m.
It's sacrilege to mess with Clifford, but really: this is an homage, I promise.
Clifford On The Road, Again.
Joey tjosephy , Oct 21, 2009; 02:22 p.m.
Jeremy Richter , Oct 21, 2009; 02:44 p.m.
I'm on board with Laur's most recent addition. I hadn't forgotten about Ole Red there. JR
Mriganka Bhattacharjee , Oct 21, 2009; 03:18 p.m.
Thomas Powell , Oct 21, 2009; 03:21 p.m.
Thomas Powell , Oct 21, 2009; 03:25 p.m.
Painted
Mriganka Bhattacharjee , Oct 21, 2009; 03:27 p.m.
Honk! Honk!
Out of my way....
Bad Traffic
Ken Papai 
, Oct 21, 2009; 03:52 p.m.
I know far better have been posted but I wanted to add in the Navy and stuff.
Blue Angels in the distance
Christa Binder 
, Oct 21, 2009; 04:48 p.m.
this was fun, I like the baseball version.
Christa Binder , Oct 21, 2009; 04:56 p.m.
Christa Binder , Oct 21, 2009; 05:04 p.m.
stars
Marco Ristuccia , Oct 21, 2009; 06:11 p.m.
Marco Ristuccia , Oct 21, 2009; 06:16 p.m.
The street of death
Greg Peterson , Oct 21, 2009; 07:04 p.m.
This is fun!
Howard Owen , Oct 21, 2009; 07:57 p.m.
Road Block
Louis Meluso , Oct 21, 2009; 08:02 p.m.
Hey what happened to my shot? Did the mod delete it?
Louis Meluso , Oct 21, 2009; 08:35 p.m.
This is really weird. Here it is again.
Night Rider
Keith Aldrich , Oct 21, 2009; 09:18 p.m.
Hah.. I don't know which is funner, looking at the entries or doing the pshop work!
My Entry
Matt B , Oct 21, 2009; 11:24 p.m.
Response to Response to "Photoshop this boring photo" contest/activity type thing...
Day-to-Night and Lightning!
Corri Michelle , Oct 22, 2009; 10:04 a.m.
Why?
Jack Burgess , Oct 22, 2009; 02:08 p.m.
Heres my version. Enjoy.
~Jack
My Version.
Jack Burgess , Oct 22, 2009; 02:28 p.m.
Version 2
Josh Root , Oct 22, 2009; 02:55 p.m.
I gotta say, Jack's photos are looking pretty darn good!
Kyle Weems , Oct 22, 2009; 05:57 p.m.
Hopefully the lack of a calibrated monitor on this machine doesn't mess this one up too much.. this monitor tends to be a bit dark.. also having a weird issue viewing in firefox but elsewhere it looks fine. Anyway, just some quick playing :)
Brooks Gelfand , Oct 22, 2009; 10:37 p.m.
Round and round she goes ....
Jeannean Buglady , Oct 22, 2009; 10:37 p.m.
I pretty much suck at Photoshop, but gave it a whirl since I need to figure out what some of these filters/stuff do. Here's my rendition called "Twilight Road...dododododododo":
Sarah Fox , Oct 23, 2009; 12:32 a.m.
Jack's is a hard act to follow, but I offer up the following likeness of God, who is Himself a photographer:
(All in good fun, of course.)
So who wins Josh's Leica? ;-)
Thomas Powell , Oct 23, 2009; 08:09 a.m.
Getting The Goat
Jeff Owen 
, Oct 23, 2009; 02:04 p.m.
A simple twist is all that's needed.
Twisting road
Katherine Michael , Oct 24, 2009; 08:25 p.m.
Response to Response to "Photoshop this boring photo" contest/activity type thing...
I am not very good at this sort of thing, but I had fun. :)
Path to an alternative reality..
JDM von Weinberg , Oct 24, 2009; 08:57 p.m.
Sorry I didn't get here earlier, but fantastic work. A few belly-laughs but many badly needed chuckles.
And I hadn't realized how much I had missed Clifford, sob.
JDM von Weinberg , Oct 24, 2009; 10:05 p.m.
This is simple, but I always wondered what happens when you max out every setting in Adobe Camera Raw to the right, except exposure and brightness.
Actually, it looks a little familiar..... ;)
All the way with Adobe Camera Raw.
Katherine Michael , Oct 24, 2009; 10:27 p.m.
I don't know if I'm allowed to post another but I felt compelled to go further with it. The first one was light and bright. This one is dark and moody.
darker
Hamish Gray , Oct 25, 2009; 05:18 a.m.
incoming
Leo Papandreou , Oct 25, 2009; 09:15 p.m.
"Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring."
Ziggy Stardust , Oct 26, 2009; 11:11 a.m.
What you have to do to get a ride
parv . , Oct 26, 2009; 11:26 a.m.
Leo P, "North by Northwest" scene has made this modification my favorite (yet). I will add "North" in my movie rent list near the top.
BW Combs , Oct 26, 2009; 10:44 p.m.
I was going to go get a drink. Then stumbled on this thread. I think I'm getting tipsy thumbing through these works of art....
Some good ideas here.
J. Harrington USA (Massachusetts) 
, Oct 26, 2009; 11:37 p.m.
I could use some lessons in adding a shadow.
Aircraft needs shadow
J. Harrington USA (Massachusetts) , Oct 26, 2009; 11:41 p.m.
Sarah's alien encounter takes the cake so far,...IMO.
Ziggy Stardust , Oct 27, 2009; 12:47 p.m.
This is my highway!
Steven Richardson , Oct 28, 2009; 09:15 a.m.
Hey Josh,,,
I've been tied up work the past couple of weeks, and I didn't even know you had put this online. Sorry for not having my input earlier, and a big Thanks for getting it going. Everyone created some really great images, and I think they had fun doing it. I hope we can make this a monthly thing. What do you think? I'll be more than happy to submit more photos.
Thanks again for everyone that submitted their creative image..
Steven
Charles Ryan , Nov 03, 2009; 06:54 p.m.
Have to confess - I used a shot just like this for a project earlier this year...
Jerry White , Nov 03, 2009; 06:57 p.m.
I saw this in the email and just couldn't pass it up. Here's my take.
Dimitri Katsaros , Nov 03, 2009; 07:05 p.m.
Just another point of view...
A little resizing and polar to rectangular
Charles Ryan , Nov 03, 2009; 07:07 p.m.
Dueling Sportbikes
By Helga , Nov 03, 2009; 07:42 p.m.
As everone said, it's fun to do.
The road
Denis Hill , Nov 03, 2009; 08:12 p.m.
Essential destination
Vasudevan Srinivasaraghavan , Nov 03, 2009; 11:48 p.m.
Bad becoming good and ugly becoming beautiful? It is a nice idea.
Which way to go?
Carlos Enrique Vega , Nov 03, 2009; 11:56 p.m.
I just have a comment fot the photo. net people and for all the photographers who showed their works: You are pure genius. Please include some tips to do the things we can see here. Thanks for sharing.
Vasudevan Srinivasaraghavan , Nov 04, 2009; 12:16 a.m.
I fully endorse your views Mr. Carlos Enrique Vega. The photo that I have attached is edited in picture.net.
Vasudevan Srinivasaraghavan , Nov 04, 2009; 12:17 a.m.
The photos that I have attached are edited in picture.net.
Left, Straight or Right - Choice is yours.
Henning Schmitz , Nov 04, 2009; 02:09 a.m.
shopping this photo boring?!@%;-)
be water my friend ;-)
dorus oshiva , Nov 04, 2009; 03:27 a.m.
really.... I have no time for this....
Vasudevan Srinivasaraghavan , Nov 04, 2009; 03:56 a.m.
I wish to correct that I have edited in paint.net and not in picture.net. I regret the mistake in my mentioning. Now I attach another photo, redesigned in MS Office Picture Manager and MS Paint.
Designed Road
Dave Quinn , Nov 04, 2009; 04:23 a.m.
Loving this thread! Here's my attempt (I hope people don't mind ladies bottoms in photos)
Dave
Kallol Majumdar , Nov 04, 2009; 05:05 a.m.
Dream Walk
carol butler , Nov 04, 2009; 05:12 a.m.
carol butler , Nov 04, 2009; 05:27 a.m.
into the sunset
Rhett Farrior , Nov 04, 2009; 07:48 a.m.
Night and Moon
Kamaljeet Chugh , Nov 04, 2009; 11:30 a.m.
That 's very intereting indeed. I was planning to send my own version. But I what I have seen here mind boggling and full of surprises and creativity.
Tony Guinn , Nov 04, 2009; 01:12 p.m.
I really should be working, but this was too much fun to pass up.....
forgot to ps the shadow........
George Gallant , Nov 04, 2009; 03:33 p.m.
Out of this world or not ???
Vasudevan Srinivasaraghavan , Nov 04, 2009; 05:14 p.m.
As long as nude photos do not divert the attention of the viewer from the subject discussed and as long as the photos do not make some people keep away from the forum, there is no harm. By avoiding such photos, we will not definitely lose anything and to the contrary may encourage more people participating.
Ken Chevy , Nov 04, 2009; 05:29 p.m.
Dimension warp... all the dimensions getting mixed up... even Ani mowing the yard. In that dimension she was going somewhere later and didn't want to get her clothes dusty, so she took them off so they would be clean later when the Moon Dimension turned real for the Moon Party she was going to while they watched a Beautiful Sunset three dimensions away... they did think it was strange, that road cutting through their dimension, but that is the way dimensions are... maybe someday they would follow that road.
Robert J , Nov 04, 2009; 08:48 p.m.
David Sirr , Nov 04, 2009; 10:01 p.m.
I thought it looked good as a painted landscape, with some recomposition
and for fun as a comic background
David McAllister , Nov 05, 2009; 11:18 a.m.
Messing around with PS Elements 8:
No Spaceships
By Helga , Nov 05, 2009; 11:31 a.m.
....one could get 'carried' away with this little assignment....
By Helga , Nov 05, 2009; 11:34 a.m.
....one could get "carried" away with this little project.....
....through the lens?
Rosemary Howard 
, Nov 05, 2009; 01:31 p.m.
Spacey aurora borealis.....
Spacey aurora borealis...
Henrique Pousao , Nov 05, 2009; 03:40 p.m.
Ali B. Sufyan , Nov 05, 2009; 08:14 p.m.
Heather Ducote , Nov 06, 2009; 09:53 a.m.
Journeys
Heather Ducote , Nov 06, 2009; 09:54 a.m.
oops, that didn't work...
Journeys
Robert Hofer , Nov 06, 2009; 08:29 p.m.
dark shadows
Jody Frost , Nov 06, 2009; 11:36 p.m.
OMG! You people are brilliant! Don't know how I found myself here but it makes me anxious to crack open my own blocked imagination and start creating outofthbox! THx for the inspiration! Jody
Linda Davidson , Nov 08, 2009; 12:22 a.m.
Great idea! I love it. This was so much fun to look at. Jody is right, you are absolutly brilliant.
John Myers , Nov 08, 2009; 02:16 a.m.
Here's mine
Nik Bryant , Nov 08, 2009; 02:02 p.m.
The road through my eye (overlay with retina pic)
this is great fun!
Robert Johnston , Nov 09, 2009; 05:05 p.m.
Robert Johnston , Nov 09, 2009; 05:40 p.m.
Oooops tried to add a TIF file, thought they could be posted here...
A Road I Never Traveled...
Les Tindell , Nov 09, 2009; 08:09 p.m.
Les Tindell , Nov 10, 2009; 09:54 a.m.
And from the scriptures of JOB 39-41...an image projection from The Unicorn Petroglyph:
Ahead...The most elusive creature ever known to humanity!
(the perspective image size would be about right)
laserles
"Developing the OLDEST photographs known to humanity"
www.impactoptics.com
Thomas Janik , Nov 10, 2009; 09:43 p.m.
France
Robert J , Nov 11, 2009; 10:59 p.m.
Michael Golden , Nov 12, 2009; 04:32 p.m.
Stormy Night
David W.E. Gavin , Nov 12, 2009; 09:07 p.m.
Just horsing around...
Henrique Pousao , Nov 13, 2009; 09:27 a.m.
"The Scream"
Henrique Pousao , Nov 13, 2009; 11:21 a.m.
"another Scream"
