Some time ago here at rendo we had the “Diti” which was short of Do it to it. A system wherby other members could Pimp another members shot, I thought I'd resurrect this idea with a snapshot taken from my back door. It is in reality one of the 7 bracketed shot I took to check out the new Photomatix pro5.

 

Do what you will and post it back in this thread, let's have some fun again around this place :)

 

Admin: Any chance you could sticky this so it don't get pushed down the list before others have had a chance to have some fun? Of course if it does not take off then obviously un-sticky it.

For instance, just a simple inversion.

My wifi is down. I did this one on my phone. I added a few new photo apps and haven't had the chance to play with them. So here is my first effort with pxlr...

Very neat idea here Melinda, and thanks for playing :)

Stiil using my phone here.  This was done in the cartoon me app. 

Stiil using my phone here.  This was done in the cartoon me app. 

Nifty, looks like an ink drawing Melinda :)

What fun!  I love DITI.  Here's one ...

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Nice one auntie.  Liking that lens flare :)

For your passion Tara, I think you should have the next Diti :)  How long did they run for?  Can't remember now.

Usually a week.  I've put a note on my calendar to post a new DITI on Thursday.  :) 

Glad you liked it!  I straightened the wide-angle building flare, as well.  :P

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Yeah I had noticed, that's the 40mm pancake lens on a 1.3 crop, can be pretty wide.

  Look foward to Thursday :)

 

My bit of fun, Ronnie.

Duplicated the layer and played with contrast, lighting, gradients & sepia...

 

Nice fiddle Clive.  I loved the diti, and it is with great pleasure I recovered the idea.  Shame something so "fun" got forgotten eh?

Really cool DITI fiddles, Tara and Clive.

yes, it is a shame these get forgotten.  I tend to lose the threads, then get busy and forget.  Another fun one, is the forum challenge.. which I need to find and check out, since I am thinking of it.  :) 

Happy Sunday <3

One more from me.  Our modem is finally up and running and we are back on line.  Yay.

Great stuff!  This is WAY fun.  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

This is great Melinda :)   Like a guache.

What a wonderful idea.  I love it.  

I have sticky'd it for you.

 

Thanks for the idea Adobe.

Tina Kaylor

Community Manager

Thank you Tina.

Also please feel free to sitemail me with any other ideas you may have.  We are always looking for challenges, contest, etc to build our wonderful community.

Tina Kaylor

Community Manager

Oh I am sure I have a few ideas :)   Thank you again for your involvement in this thread.

Okay, here's this week's image ... DITI!!

Gravestones along the Natchez Trace.  A bit of Frontier-type history!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Excellent image Tara, I shall have a go at this tomorrow now, just got off the hook with honey.  4 am here in UK.  I see you also sent me site mail, I will read that now.  Night night to you and Bill

Ron

No good I couldnt resist it.  Turned day into night fixed the headstone, and a few fake moonbeams seal the deal :)

 

NOW I am going to bed!

 

Thanks Tara, here is my effort.

I created 2 more layers, converted the gravestones to B&W and played with levels to get them darker.  The background was also converted to IR B&W, with a difused glow added.  Then added a diffused outer glow tho the gravestones and saved. Viola!

 

Wowser!  Excellent  fiddles, you two.  I love the results!  Since Ronnie did the last one, I believe this puts Clive in the hotseat for next week's DITI.  Are you game, Clive?

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

I concur Tara!  You are the next candidate Clive :)  Excellent job BTW Clive.  Then after that Melinda should have a shot

 

This is cool, thanks! ☺

I will submit one next Thursday 15th.

Great fun!

 

Well it i s fun mate, I am glad we have the diti back up and running :)

A little fun with your DITI shot

One more:

Oooohh Helle!  I like that last one better than any of the others on Ronnie's picture.

btw ... we've changed the DITI Forum format a bit, and are adding the next week's picture at the end of last week's, so we keep the sticky and hopefully get more participation.  If you scroll down on the first page, you'll see this week's DITI picture.  (It happens to be one I posted, but honestly ... I would have told you even if it wasn't!  LOL!)  We're not sure yet if this will work, but it's worth a go!  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

OH Thank you for telling me, Tara. I have now downloaded it. I didnt discover it, although I was in page one for a few moments.    I made the images almost a week ago, but didnt really have time to follow up. Thank you 

Very nice tweaks Helle :)

Great work. 

I haven't had a minute to get in here.  Maybe I'll get a chance to play this weekend.

Thanks Ronnie :) I hope I can send another two soon from tne new...est photo ;-)

Looking forward :b_smile:

Inspired by Clive's faux IR, here is mine did it with adjustment layers of chanel mixer and camera raw filter in PS CC  Difference here is I didn't apply the defused glow, thought I'd try it without it, I like the "Digital look" it gave.

I like that one too!  I've just realized I never did anything with it myself.  Guess I'll have to give it a go!  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

LOL!  I was just hitting the hay when the mailer sounded off so I thought I'll just nip in and see what this message is :)    Nite nite Tara, hope you had a nice birthday today so far, it's the 12 here in UK. and give my best to William.

Okay ... here it is with just some "moody" postwork.  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Finally, here is one for me. 

Good morning!! I have two Suggestions for this beautiful photo :-)

Here is Number two:

Ronnie, your Image looks like a drawing. I like that very much.  

Tara, I do like that soft look you gave it. Calm and inviting..... hmm--- maybe inviting is not the right word 

Melinda, you got a very interesting result there. I like the shiny edges and the spooky mood ......

I like all three of these!  Melinda, I love your graveyard-in-the-moonlight thing.  That's outstanding!  Helle, I can't decide between yours which I like more.  They're so different from each other, and both marvelous.  :)  Thanks for playing!  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Really good tweaks here, I like them all, Melinda, you seem to have created a whole host of lavender/bluebells :)  Helle the sepia one is like pallate knife work, outstanding, and Auntie, that etherial light is way cool.

Great work everyone!Love seeing how creative everyone is.

 

Here's my stab at the cemetary.

 

Kokabeel  Great tweak.  it has a spooky feel.

Kokabeel, I really like your picture with the grave in focus and the mist around it. Looks really spooky. :)

Another inspired effort here.   Crop and wild flowers.

Another.  Just a simple tryptich division.

Ohhh that is indeed lovely, Ronnie and I do like the triptych too. 

Whatever you did, Kokabeel, it's a fantastic result!

 

The spring flowers are lovely, Ronnie ... just the thing for a really old cemetery.  And I love the triptych.  So simple, but so effective!  The picture is just right for that cropping.  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Thank you ladies.  Helle.  Very easy to do in Photoshop.  Just use the lasso tool to go around where you want flowers to be.  Hold the shift key for extra selections.  Then feather the selection by one or two pixels.   Selct/modify/feather, or if you are ina more recent Photoshop, use the refine edge dialog.  Once you have your selections, just hit CTRL U to bring up hue and saturation, and alter the hue and saturation sliders.

 

To get the little bunches of flowers, I used the magic wand, at default values to select little areas, then did the same move as above.  After this you can use the sharpen tool to give the flowers a little more definition.

Hey that makes fun! i made a windy day :-)  - was in the mood for a flying dragon over the house- but first i have to learn this..

so sorry, I just have seen you have a grave yard now... 

can I try again?

Well there is no restrictions on how many goes you have Priska :)  And you did a splendid tweak.

Note next diti posters on the respective Thursdays

Clive This Thursday 15th
Melinda Next Thursday 22nd
Helle The following Thursday 29th
Kokabeel The following Thursday 5th
Priska  The following Thursday 12th
Assuming all runs smoothly of course, we may need to juggle the figures a bit :)

 

As we are all using the same sticky thread. I will keep an eye on this and update each week.

 

Thanks all for playing.

Sure thing, Priska!  You can post as many entries as you like.  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Sounds like a plan ;)

Great Idea to do it that way Ronnie. Thanks for telling how you did :)

Hi Ronnie, could you give me another day - i will be off 2. to 14 of june :-)

stunning dities ! 

Not a problem Priska, I am sure someone may step in before the 12th, we'll just have to let them have the slot and move you foward, thanks for letting us know :)  And there is no mandatory rules here, I was just pointing out who would be next.  You are not compelled to take part :)

Helle.  You are welcome my friend.

Thanks for the fun Ronnie!

I have made a new thread and sticky for my  photo - Diti Week 3.

Admin feels it would be better to do so in future.

Kind regards,

Clive

Okey dokey Clive, I can't argue with that :)