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Edit Me An Image #36 - The Fish 👉 Voting time 👈

ArvoJ
July 18, 2025
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    ArvoJ
    Team 962 posts
    July 18, 2025, 5:59 p.m. July 18, 2025, 5:59 p.m.
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    Continuing the image editing thread, 36nd issue.

    General rules:

    • A previous round winner presents a busy or just not so interesting image, having at least some potential for different crops or visions.
    • Anyone (except author of original image) can edit the presented image, up to three distinct edits in separate posts are permitted.
    • All edits must be based on original image, not on another people's edits (of course borrowing ideas would not be a problem).
    • Short explanations about your editing intentions and/or techniques are encouraged, but not required.

    Once the deadline for images has been reached, no new image versions will be accepted. Questions and (polite) discussions of techniques are welcome, so that we can learn from one another how certain edits were achieved.
    The edited version gathering most likes wins and its author will start next round, unless they would prefer to pass the torch to someone else.
    On the closing day for voting, if there is a draw in the number of likes for two or more edits, then the person that posted the original image will decide the winner from the the photos receiving the most votes.

    Editing rules:

    • All "normal" adjustments (brightness, colours, curves etc) are permitted (both local and global ones).
    • All geometric adjustments (perspective, cropping etc) are permitted.
    • Artistic effects (brushes, textures etc) are allowed.
    • No additions or replacements may be made to the main subject matter of the image; non-essential objects may be removed, and parts of the original image can be "moved" to a different position in the image. Sky replacements are OK unless the sky is the main subject..
    • Generative AI must not be used.

    Timing:
    Get your images posted by July 24. As always, you can vote during the entire contest plus one day after the image submission deadline. I'll post reminders.

    The photo:
    Attached shot was taken in the Aquarium of Rhodes. I was lazy and let my camera decide shooting parameters - apparently it didn't succeed, low light and dirty glass didn't help either :(
    I'm sure you can fix at least some aspects of attached image :) Or just make some nice art of it.
    As an exclusion to rules I will allow to use some AI enhancements (not object addition however) - but will anyone vote for AI edits, this I can't guess.

    You can find the SOOC jpg image below and here’s the link to the RAW image (Fuji x100v).

    _DSF2272.JPG

    _DSF2272.JPG

    JPG, 14.7 MB, uploaded by ArvoJ on July 18, 2025.

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    minniev
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    July 19, 2025, 5:50 p.m. July 19, 2025, 5:50 p.m.
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    This may be the hardest one we've tangled with. The first issue is trying to get the fish some separation from the murky water and shadowed rocks. I tried doing this with color overlays and masks to get him better separated by making the water more blue and green rather than the same colors as the fish.

    I did not think this worked so well.
    _DSF2272.jpg

    _DSF2272.jpg

    JPG, 4.5 MB, uploaded by minniev on July 19, 2025.

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    minniev
    Members 2277 posts
    July 19, 2025, 5:53 p.m. July 19, 2025, 5:53 p.m.
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    Then I tried black and white. I'll hold off on another try for a day or so.

    3,jpg.jpg

    3,jpg.jpg

    JPG, 1.3 MB, uploaded by minniev on July 19, 2025.

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    Sagittarius
    Members 820 posts
    July 19, 2025, 9:17 p.m. July 19, 2025, 9:17 p.m.
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    Fish-1.jpg
    Edited in LrC and Topaz Photo AI.

    Fish-1.jpg

    JPG, 2.1 MB, uploaded by Sagittarius on July 19, 2025.

    NCV, xpatUSA, ArvoJ and 2 other users like this.

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    in2lapland
    Members 51 posts
    July 20, 2025, 9:53 a.m. July 20, 2025, 9:53 a.m.
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    Used AI: sharpen subject motion blur

    20250510122419__DSF2272-bewerkt-2.jpg

    20250510122419__DSF2272-bewerkt-2.jpg

    JPG, 571.3 KB, uploaded by in2lapland on July 20, 2025.

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    Sagittarius
    Members 820 posts
    July 20, 2025, 10:19 p.m. July 20, 2025, 10:19 p.m.
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    Second try
    Fish-2.jpg

    Fish-2.jpg

    JPG, 2.5 MB, uploaded by Sagittarius on July 20, 2025.

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    ErikWithaK
    Members 178 posts
    July 22, 2025, 12:09 a.m. July 22, 2025, 12:09 a.m.
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    Really not seeing a lot of options with this one.. Lightroom with some old Topaz DeNoise.

    _DSF2272-IridientEdit edit.jpg

    _DSF2272-IridientEdit edit.jpg

    JPG, 1.3 MB, uploaded by ErikWithaK on July 22, 2025.

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    in2lapland
    Members 51 posts
    July 22, 2025, 1:21 p.m. July 22, 2025, 1:21 p.m.
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    Transformation for straightening, cropping, same edit settings as previous one
    Applied AI: subject refocus sharpening

    20250510122419__DSF2272-bewerkt-4.jpg

    20250510122419__DSF2272-bewerkt-4.jpg

    JPG, 639.5 KB, uploaded by in2lapland on July 22, 2025.

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    minniev
    Members 2277 posts
    July 22, 2025, 3:21 p.m. July 22, 2025, 3:21 p.m.
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    Final try, with cropping, color adjustments, and vignettting.

    2_DSF2272.jpg

    2_DSF2272.jpg

    JPG, 655.6 KB, uploaded by minniev on July 22, 2025.

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    AlanSh
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    July 22, 2025, 6:06 p.m. July 22, 2025, 6:06 p.m.
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    I really liked Sagittarius's B&W picture with the coloured fish, but I thought it needed denoising and I wanted different colours. So, into LRc and came up with this - I also rotated it to make it different from all the others 😁:

    edit 36-_DSF2272-1_Superlarge.jpg

    edit 36-_DSF2272-1_Superlarge.jpg

    JPG, 2.9 MB, uploaded by AlanSh on July 22, 2025.

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    ArvoJ
    Team 962 posts
    July 23, 2025, 10:39 a.m. July 23, 2025, 10:39 a.m.
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    You have maybe two days for experiments left. Although the image is what it is, there are pretty nice interpretations posted already - I'm waiting for more :)

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    Sagittarius
    Members 820 posts
    July 24, 2025, 11:14 a.m. July 24, 2025, 11:14 a.m.
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    Just for fun
    Fish-3.jpg

    Fish-3.jpg

    JPG, 2.3 MB, uploaded by Sagittarius on July 24, 2025.

    AlanSh, TimRichards, xpatUSA and 2 other users like this.

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    ArvoJ
    Team 962 posts
    July 24, 2025, 5:53 p.m. July 24, 2025, 5:53 p.m.
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    There are counted hours left to post last-minute ideas!

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    ArvoJ
    Team 962 posts
    July 25, 2025, 6:11 a.m. July 25, 2025, 6:11 a.m.
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    Time is over, no more submissions. Just one more day for final votes - let the best version win :)

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    Thread title has been changed from Edit Me An Image #36 - The Fish.

    • By ArvoJ on July 25, 2025, 6:12 a.m..
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