One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-September 2021

Join the One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge to have some creative fun with photos.

The purpose of the One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge is to play. These days we have so many different ways to process a photo: from phone apps to Photoshop. And these different software options make it accessible for anyone to get fun and beautiful effects. Whether you have a lot of time or a little.

I’ve been spending a lot of my pandemic playing with photo processing. Because it is a relaxing indoor activity that I can do for free (I mostly use open-source programs and old versions of paid programs). And I thought it might be fun to share what I’ve been doing and see what other folks are trying out.

No complicated rules, just:

1. Pick a photo you want to play with.
2. Process it using three different methods.
3. After that create a blog post with the original and your creative products.
4. If you can, please include a description of your methods. So others can give them a whirl.
5. Then add a comment below containing the link to you post (pingbacks don’t seem to work, I’m trying to figure out why). So we can all see your creations.
6. Check out what other folks are doing for new ideas.

I can hardly wait to see what you create.

August creations:

• Shutters on the world
• Tales from my lens
• Xingfu Mama blog
• An Bui Photography

Here’s my one-to-three contribution for this month:

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Directions for my methods:

1. Simple desaturation: Colors>Desaturate>Desaturate using the value (HSV) method.
2. I used two layers for this: the bottom layer was the original with a G’mic Brushify filter (in the Artistic set) using the gaussian brush type. The top layer was the black & white in #1 with the blend mode set to soft light.
3. For this one I used ttwo layers again. The first was the original with the simple linear iterative filter: Filters>Artistic>Simple linear iterative. I adjusted the parameters to get a more abstract look. Again I overlaid the black & white with the soft light blend mode.

I use the GIMP, an open-source (free) program comparable to Adobe’s Photoshop. If you are interested in trying the GIMP, check out my post: Get going with the GIMP.

I’ve also been experimenting with the G’mic plug-in for the GIMP*. It works with other programs as well. G’mic is a free program with over 500 filters from extremely functional to fun. All of my creations used filters in the Artistic group of filters.

Treatment 2 before/after overlay

Treatment 3 before/after overlay

*Here is a YouTube video explaining how you can load G’mic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USHVj9pyhI.