I know some of you like to see what my original photos look like vs. the processed ones, so I thought I’d share an iPhone photo I took at Sutro Baths the other day with my camera club in its original form as well as the edited version. Normally I edit iPhone photos on my Phone via various apps, but this time I thought it’d be fun to bring it into Photoshop to see what I could do with it. I’m showing the edited shot first.
I was so thrilled that I caught a couple in love standing on the rock in the foreground with the Golden Gate Bridge in the upper right making a cameo appearance. Don’t you wonder what the couple was saying to one other???
Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!
Sutro Baths
Original
Laura Macky Photography 
September 24, 2016 at 2:43 pm
Great processing!
September 24, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Thank you! It’s too hot to go out so I’m doodling. 🙂
September 24, 2016 at 2:44 pm
😀😀
September 24, 2016 at 3:08 pm
How wonderful to be able to improve on God’s landscape.
September 24, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Oh dunno about that! But it’s how I felt it. 🙂 Thank you!
September 24, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Nice job. As is, the original is pretty good too.
September 24, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Thanks David 🙂
September 24, 2016 at 3:12 pm
Wow Laura! Fantastic ❤️❤️
September 24, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Thank you so much John. 🙂
September 24, 2016 at 3:31 pm
“That lady with the camera thinks we don’t see her! ” 😀
September 24, 2016 at 3:56 pm
hahaha! LOVE that. 🙂
September 24, 2016 at 4:33 pm
this is so beautiful Laura! color and smooth silkiness, just delightful. you have Iphone 6? and wow, how you enhanced the water, that is fabulous 🙂 when you process/edit do you keep the photo – in your phone; or do you export it to desktop? silly, but I am curious…
September 24, 2016 at 7:18 pm
Oh I guess I didn’t explain this very well. First, thank you! I usually do all my editing on the iPhone and I have a 6+ but that doesn’t really matter. It’s all about the apps. However for this one I exported from Mac Photos (my photostream) and imported it into LR. I did some things here and then opened into PS as usual. Hope that helps!
September 25, 2016 at 12:35 am
This was most helpful, thanks. 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 8:10 am
I’m glad! You’re welcome 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 2:57 am
thanks!!! amazing you do it on the iphone, with its little buttons 🙂 amazing as my fingers wouldn’t quite finesse it.
September 25, 2016 at 8:24 am
Thankfully I have a 6+!
September 25, 2016 at 4:27 pm
that would help! in some cases, (for fumble fingers me) bigger is better. thanks for these tips, I may try – even with my old 5 – to give it a go. but Export, to edit. lol
September 24, 2016 at 7:35 pm
Oh and when I export it goes directly into the downloads directory. When I import to LR I put it in one of my folders where I keep all my other camera photos. So when I import into PS and save, it goes there. Hope that makes sense!.
September 25, 2016 at 2:54 am
yes, I think so! you export and it goes to the desktop’s master folder systems where you can then do more ‘editing and processing’ – I’d been wondering how people do all those buttons on that tiny screen…all this time.
September 25, 2016 at 8:23 am
Well 99% of my iPhone photos are edited ON the iPhone. This was an exception. So yes, I use those tiny buttons! I mask and everything on the iPhone!
September 25, 2016 at 4:28 pm
you must have such nimble limber fingers. yay! truly, that is, just amazing to me. 🙂
September 26, 2016 at 12:39 pm
I’m laughing because I really don’t! I struggle with doing all this stuff, trust me.
September 26, 2016 at 3:19 pm
smiling… I’m amazed at all these young kids, with fingers flying on teensy weeny phones, and think, they have no idea what arthritis is … yet!!
September 24, 2016 at 5:11 pm
It’s beautiful.
September 24, 2016 at 7:18 pm
Thanks much Tux. 🙂
September 24, 2016 at 8:48 pm
both are good.
September 25, 2016 at 8:09 am
Thanks! 🙂
September 24, 2016 at 11:35 pm
Beautiful composition Laura and really like the way you’ve processed it.
September 25, 2016 at 8:10 am
Thank you Edith. It was nice to work on an iPhone in photoshop rather on my iPhone for a change.
September 25, 2016 at 12:06 am
Love seeing before,and after. You are an artist. Love it.
September 25, 2016 at 8:10 am
I’m so flattered you’d say that! Thank you so much Sherry. 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 1:07 am
Beautiful as usual Laura!
September 25, 2016 at 8:11 am
So kind to say Michael. Thank you!
September 25, 2016 at 1:27 am
I think the scene you captured is so unique, it does not need any further editing. But… brilliant job. It could be the cover of a love story book. Stunning capture and a fantastic post, Laura.
September 25, 2016 at 8:12 am
Thank you Reinhold. A scene like that can be interpreted so many ways I think. I love the story book idea. 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 2:34 am
I love both versions. It is a stunning capture. Not every day you get a couple walking right into your shots. The edited one has a bit more dreamy feel about it, though – that love can feel like a dream sometimes. Whereas the original there is a bit more edge to it – love conquers all. Brilliant all round, but you knew that already 😉
September 25, 2016 at 8:23 am
You have nailed it….dreamy and more of an edge. I was so excited to see the couple. My camera was all packed up with the tripod attached and I didn’t feel like I would’ve had time to get it out before the sun went down so I figured an iPhone shot would do. Sometimes it works out. Thanks for your comment mabel!
September 26, 2016 at 3:28 am
That is brilliant, Laura. You certainly know how to dig up your camera when you need it. You could have taken out the tripod after they left and do a long exposure, and then blend the shots together. A thought for another day 😀
September 26, 2016 at 12:41 pm
I wanted to but my camera was all packed up and after all the walking around and taking pictures, I just couldn’t take it all out yet again. Thanks Mabel. 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 5:12 am
Very creative effort, Laura. I love the painterly effect. Nicely done.
September 25, 2016 at 8:24 am
Thank you so much Robin. It was fun. 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 5:23 am
So beautifully done, Laura! I’ll never get tired of look at this photo.
I love how you use the graduated filter and the changing colors of the sky, mountains, and sea. So very beautiful!
September 25, 2016 at 8:25 am
Amazing how photoshop can create things like this. The ideas are limitless! Thank you so much Amy. 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 6:43 am
My question is, how did they get there… Talk about water rescue… Yikes
September 25, 2016 at 8:26 am
I know…that’s what I was thinking!
September 25, 2016 at 9:25 am
Nice editing. The original is wonderful too!
September 25, 2016 at 9:57 am
Thank you Belinda. It’s fun!
September 25, 2016 at 9:52 am
What the couple was saying: “What’s taking Laura so long to take the shot?” 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 9:57 am
LOL! Right??? Too funny. 😛
September 25, 2016 at 10:03 am
Awesome transfor
September 25, 2016 at 1:53 pm
Thank you 🙂
September 25, 2016 at 10:03 am
Transformation 😁
September 25, 2016 at 1:53 pm
LOL…thank you!
September 25, 2016 at 4:42 pm
Both photos came out amazing. The edited one looks like its a still from a Dreamworks film. The original looks like it should be in a magazine or something. Great work.
September 26, 2016 at 12:39 pm
Now if only Dreamworks would give me a ring. 😉 Thank you so much for such a wonderful compliment!
September 26, 2016 at 12:52 pm
lol.. Youre Welcome. Thanks for the thought provoking art
September 26, 2016 at 1:13 pm
:))))))
September 26, 2016 at 1:14 pm
😀
September 25, 2016 at 7:26 pm
Art, that’s art.
September 26, 2016 at 12:40 pm
Thank you so much Tommy! What a nice compliment. 🙂
September 26, 2016 at 2:35 pm
Hy, ho, Laura. All good.
September 26, 2016 at 12:36 am
I love iPhones! Great image .. Fun editing
September 26, 2016 at 12:40 pm
Me too!!!! Thanks Julie. 🙂
September 26, 2016 at 3:14 pm
Great to see both versions, Laura, the painterly and the snapshot. Such a full scene, and so lovely.
September 26, 2016 at 3:17 pm
It really is a full scene. I like that description. Thank you!
September 28, 2016 at 9:06 am
The result is BEAUTIFUL!
September 28, 2016 at 11:26 am
I’m so glad you like it! Thank you so much John. 🙂
October 29, 2016 at 3:34 pm
Such a lovely moody painting 🙂 wonder what you used to create this painting
October 29, 2016 at 8:19 pm
Thank you so much. I used photoshop and topaz impression with lots of masking. I really appreciate your comments. Thanks again!