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Contest: Color Images in Photoshop

Contest Dec 31

This Week’s Contest

The theme for this week is “Color your images in post” meaning we want to see your images that have been colored using Photoshop, Lightroom or any other program.

You can add colors to the shadows and highlights of an image to help bring out a certain tone or mood. You can also completely change the color of a certain object in your photo to help it contrast well with the rest of the image!

Last Contest Winners

Congratulations to Ruben, Niklas and Erik for winning our contest on low angle. Contact us to choose your free Phlearn PRO.

Erik
Ruben Chase
Niklas Anderson
Contest Guidelines:

How to Enter
Simply add your image to a comment below. Please only submit one image each week. You're submitting images to be edited, so don't do too much Photoshop beforehand. We want to teach not just how, but why edits are being made.

How to Win
The person who best exemplifies the contest theme will be the winner. If two entries are close, the amount of likes, comments, and a great description will be the deciding factor. Winners are chosen by the Phlearn team.

Legal
By submitting images, you give Phlearn LLC the right to digitally alter your image and display on Phlearn.com, and use your image and any resulting derivatives to promote Phlearn.com. We reserve the right to change the rules whenever we want.

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  • nanihta
  • Grant MacIvor

    This is a picture taken by a my good friend Adam J Mckay. He asked me to edit his photo and this is what I came up with. I changed the sky then tried warming up the photo to match. Here’s the flickr version http://www.flickr.com/photos/nogoodname/8347231899/sizes/l/in/photostream/

  • Suzanne Offner

    Mine is a floral shot, the sky was grey and there wasn’t much color in it, so I did some split toning in Lightroom, and a little more manipulation in Photoshop. The photo attached in another post, I’ll add this to that post.

  • Suzanne Offner

    I can’t get mine to upload, I keep getting an error. Here’s mine, I changed the background in Lightroom and Photoshop, split toning and adding another tone to make it more interesting. It was a grey colorless day.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/suzoh/8347501961/

  • Timmy Reynolds

    Here’s the after and I tried to make it more colder and sadder. I shot it through a window at a weird angle to get that interesting glare

  • Timmy Reynolds

    Here’s the before

  • alain mbouche

    Thanks !!

  • eli

    thanks!

  • eli

    total change of the mood! I like it

  • http://www.facebook.com/dan.mcgill.39 Dan McGill

    I took this photograph at 12:38 p.m….

  • oliver.schaller

    Here’s my photograph, I’ve worked on the colour of the water to enhance the contrast between the object and the water itself.

  • http://www.almansurpictures.com/ Al Mansur

    participate :-)

  • http://www.almansurpictures.com/ Al Mansur

    goood job, love it

  • Guest

    Here is a recent self-portrait I took; I did some subtle re-coloring to desaturate and bring the image together, as well as to try and enhance my eyes.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwinatcookie/8348513536/in/photostream

  • Amir Peeri

    One of my favorite shots. This guy is so awesome

  • Guest
  • Niklas Andersen

    Thanks for picking my image! Made my day!

    Here is my submission for this week;
    Hair, eyes, background colored. Freckles added aswell.

  • jsrphotos

    Throwing mine into the mix :)

  • Amy Jackson

    I changed the color of the light bulb. Thanks!

  • Jaakko Paarvala
  • Amy Jackson

    Here’s my final image. Sorry!

  • http://www.facebook.com/derek.lawrey Derek Lawrey

    Of course nothing is real!! Hahah, most of the color work went to turning the dress red.

  • http://www.facebook.com/derek.lawrey Derek Lawrey

    Nice I always like the soft look you get from these retro colors.

  • http://www.facebook.com/austin.gartman.33 Austin Gartman

    Here’s my image, did some color toning as well as added some gradient toning

  • Steven Heldenbrand

    Here something I took a while a go with a cheap underwater digital camera that quickly died a few days after shooting this.

  • http://twitter.com/_jesperek jesperek

    A self-portrait taken with a tripod at an old retired gas station (now acting as a museum for mopeds). The bright red pumps and the company name on the wall was in such a beautiful bright red color, that I only needed to desaturate everything else to make them really pop. The cropping is some what unorthodox, but I think that the reverse diagonal yet works cause of the color.

  • http://twitter.com/_jesperek jesperek

    Very nice! Dreamy and real at the same time! :)

  • Guest

    A friend and I where fooling around late at night, and ended up covering her in fat cream from head to toe just to see if we could get something from it.

  • Simon Dein

    I don’t know what happened to my other post…but anyways – a friend and I where fooling around late at night, and ended up covering her in a fat layer of cream from head to toe just to see if we could get something from it.

  • Simon Dein

    I don’t know what happened to my other post…but anyways – a friend and I where fooling around late at night, and ended up covering her in a fat layer of cream from head to toe to see if we could get something cool from it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ryan.lunsford Ryan Lunsford

    my first entry ; ) new phlearn user will be spending a lot of time here. Awesome!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lawrence-Smith/100000267202500 Lawrence Smith

    This is from the Junkanoo Festival in Nassau,Bahamas a celebration filled with music and color.I darkened the background to draw attention to the vibrant colors of her costume.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lawrence-Smith/100000267202500 Lawrence Smith

    This is from the Junkanoo Festival in Nassau,Bahamas a celebration filled with music and color.I darkened the background to draw attention to the vibrant colors of her costume.

  • http://www.facebook.com/TracyWilliamsPhotography Tracy

    Thanks :)

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