Wow - fall colors in Magic Kingdom!

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Playing around a bit with PSP and some plugins, I happened upon this particular plug in style in Nik Color Effects:

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Interestingly, the action converts green foliage into fall colors - it's a no-mess action - just select, adjust intensity, and done! ; The two original shots were green as could be, but with this action they look like fall in full effect!

For comparison, here's the Big Thunder Mountain original:
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I'd say the only thing they could do to make it better would be to have an equal distribution of yellow leaves as well. ; Aside from the blue sky it almost looks like you just tinted the entire photo red. ; Cool concept though.


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I think they do - I haven't delved deeply into it, but the action had a few controls and one had a drop down of panels with reds, oranges and yellows in varying degrees, along with saturation and strength sliders. ; This was a one-click first test of it - but it'll be fun playing with it more to see what it does.
 
Thanks...I would definitely like to spend a little more time seeing how all the manipulations work with it. ; I just happened upon it last night, and spent no more than a few seconds converting these two shots.
 
move up here to the northeast, we can show you the real thing for 2-3 weeks every year, no photoshop needed
 
Gary - I finally got a good view of the real thing this past October up north:
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No photoshop actions for those fall colors.
 
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Fall Colors again - this time with layers

Sure enough - ran the Nik Color Effects again on a shot, and this time, applied different fall colors to each of 3 layers - not much more complex, as essentially I'm just running the Nik application 3 times in succession. ; Then I just chose which trees to make which color, and erased off the other layers. ; In some spots, I left all the Nik colors off and left the original green like in the lawn and some flowers:

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Wow Justin! ; This is awesome! ; Does Nik Color Effects cost alot? ; Will is run with Elements? ; I really love this shot!
 
That is awesome Justin.


John, Nik Color Efex comes with Paint Shop Pro Ultimate, I am not sure what the cost is, or if it will run with Elements. ; It is what made me go with PSP.
 
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John, Nik Color Efex comes with Paint Shop Pro Ultimate, I am not sure what the cost is, or if it will run with Elements. ; It is what made me go with PSP.
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Got it, thanks Jeff!
 
I'd be 99% sure it would run with Elements. ; Most of the offerings by Nik, Topaz, etc are designed as Photoshop Plugins, which Paint Shop Pro can also use. ; It's the same plug in format used for both systems.
Thanks guys - there's a lot more to the Nik plugins, and some are really nice, some are really fun, and some are just simple enhancements - you can go mild to wild on most of them. ; I also play around with Topaz Adjust which has a ton of different actions, as well as huge control over every parameter - the Nik Color Effects is a more simple palette of color and contrast actions that you can tweak - not as involved or with as much control as Topaz, but also much faster and easier to use when you just want to experiment or add a little pop.
 
BTW - for the sake of comparison, here's the original of that Victoria Gardens shot:
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Very cool! I love Nik software. I did the same thing for a client not too long ago. We took photos in early October when the leaves were just starting to change. Using different layers and NIK color efex I was able to make the leaves look like the leaves were in their peak.
 
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