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that first one is really nice. :)

however, the other ones appear to have too much contrast, apart from the second which i thought was pretty good, got a nice piratey feel to it :D.

the rest however arent great, on the 3rd one, selective colour doesnt really work often. On the 4th one the contrast has went sky high, and has left the sky looking really sharp looking, which in my opinion is not good. Try not to over filter your work, but the first one, spot on, great! :)

Fifth (and final for now), I took this picture while on a trip. When I got back from the trip I decided to edit it to look like a watercolor. I think I got it pretty close..

 

 

Well tell me what you think.. Rate/Hate/Flame/Love/Whatever..

Are you sure you took that picture?

I took a very similar one to it, yes.

But did you take this particular one which you put the watercolor effect on?

 

You know what, screw it. It's not yours. It's included with Windows Vista.

Yeah, seriously - if you're showing of your ps skills that's fine - I don't think people really care that you used a windows image as your base. Just don't try to pass it off as your own. That's not cool.

 

The first one is really nice, the second is cool, not a huge fan of the others.

1. Okay - could have done with a lot less contrast, plus it wasn't even you who took the shot

2. If all you did was smash some brushes onto a brown canvas, it's not art. The only thing you could be accredited on is the way in which you assembled those brushes.

3. Not a bad photo, but the editing kills it - in fact I think this photo would look very nice without that horrid colour processing

4. This would take literally under 30 seconds to replicate

5. Again, not even your own image. Deadly editing.

All in all, the only acceptable image is the first one, and you still managed to kill it.

I hate sounding so mean, but honestly these are just so... not masterpieces.

Read up on photography; composition, lighting, techniques. Also practice with Photoshop. A lot. Also know that most of the editing you will ever do with photographs is going to be white balance edits, cropping and shadows/highlight control. Effects like the ones you just did are almost never seen, if ever.

 

Here's a typical colour correction:

 

Before:

After:

But did you take this particular one which you put the watercolor effect on?

 

You know what, screw it. It's not yours. It's included with Windows Vista.

 

He made it look terrible...

 

On to the topic at hands your cousins photo is pretty decent (over contrasted editing though on your part) and the rest are crap. Not bothered to give you any real criticism considering the above quote.

And once he receives some real critique, with us telling him what we really think, he edits the post.

I like that he's not even man enough to own up to his mistake.

 

At least the one he took was quoted before hand.

Pro OP is pro.