02-Daydreaming
I call this one Daydreaming because the person sitting at the desk isn't seeing what's inside, but is dreaming about being outside. (That person would be me.)
Features:
- Used Camera Raw to make a panorama from the original 6 images. Use a projection of perspective.
- Use Camera Raw to crop the image, brighten it, increase the contrast, and increase the greens and blues. I adjusted the other colors until the indoor part of the image was mostly grayscale. The goal was to made the outside the emphasis and where the person at the desk wants to be.
- I made sharpening adjustments and made defringe adjustments for purple and green. Mostly that reduced the noise from the window screen on the right center window.
- The rest of the changes were made in Photoshop.
- Turning off the big monitor gave the look I wanted there, but I wanted the laptop screen off, but not glossy. So I copied part of the big monitor screen and used it to cover the laptop screen.
- I applied a black and white adjustment mask and clipped out the outside colors. I selected the areas between the blinds on two of the windows and then just the whole of the other two windows and the results seem the same to me. Let me know if you can tell the difference.
- I wanted the white cup and black drink holder to stand out more than they did as grayscale images so I applied a Screen layer to the white cup and a Color Burn layer to the black drink holder.
- The light coming through the top of the right-most window was very bright and only a small bit of blue sky was showing. I added a Normal layer and selected just the sky areas and filled them with the color of blue from one of the other windows.
- I added vibrance and gradient adjustments and a layer with glowing orbs.
- A copy of the photo layer makes the image more vibrant.
Original photos