Here's a couple of fun photos.
 First photo is the main road through my OO scale Swanhurst layout, and shows an early fog lifting. The fog hides all sorts of problems


 Next one shows two Maine Central locos, HO scale.
 

 The fog, sky and bluish haze were all added with the airbrush in Paintshop Pro, varying the colour, size and opacity.

 Anybody got any more 'enhanced' photos to share?

 Mike

Love the two 'beasts' Mike but for me you have done it once more with the first picture. The Master of atmosphere. No doubt about it. It might be cheating, your word, not mine but what a result. Brilliant.

Gorgeous, Mike - and it's not cheating at all.  It's modern photography.  Many of the "Trackside Photos" in Railroad Modeller employ similar techniques, and some have won major awards. (Actually I think that first shot of yours could also :wink: )

Did you notice Tim that even the street, roadway and the car seems to have the morning damp on them.

Think to me it looks like it has just stopped raining and the sun is creating a haze, fantastic picture well done.
Phill

Robert said

Did you notice Tim that even the street, roadway and the car seems to have the morning damp on them.

I certainly did, Bob - I looked at the photos for a few minutes each and could almost smell the dampness of the morning.  Brilliant effects :!:  :!:  :!:

WOW
I'm speechless…look so REAL
Well done!

Many thanks for the kind comments.  :oops:  :oops:
  From the first day of making the layout I wanted a just-rained look. The wet road effect is varnish rubbed on thinly. I have to renew it occasionally.  Brushing and rubbing it on is a tad more controlled than the way I started out when I sprayed dilute acrylic varnish over everything   :!:  :!: using a misting spray bottle suitable for ferns and orchids.  It rained for about a minute. That was maybe a little reckless       I wound up with varnished rails, shiny sleepers and some weird streaks down walls and on my rollingstock. It was fun though  :twisted: Thankfully I had the presence of mind to shield the turnouts.  Most of it has worn off now, or is covered with dust.

 Mike

I can't help thinking that this picture - ie., the "misty" one - should also qualify for the Logo!
Ken

I'd think it would qualify for anything Ken. Great photograph.

Mike, Is it possible to post the "Before" picture too? I'd like to see the two of them side to side.

Wayne

Here you go Wayne.



 You can see the uprights of my easel that holds the floodlight.

 Mike

Thanks Mike, that was very interesting. Guess I will have to take a look at doing that myself. If I have a program that is. I'm still trying to learn this new computer.

Thanks Again Mike,
Wayne

If you should run into problems with your new computer Wayne then don't forget our Wizard.

Out of curiousity Mike, how difficult is Paintshop Pro to learn and use?  I've seen it on the shelves but never picked it up to read the box :roll:

Tim  PSP can be a bit awkward - mine's version 7. I don't know what number it's up to by now.  PSP7 isn't very good at say cutting away the background and superimposing the remnant onto a real sky.  I think Adobe Photoshop might do that a bit easier.
 With the airbrush in PSP you have great control over opacity, size, density, colour, hardness etc so it's very versatile in that way. You can also clone parts of the picture e.g. in the Maine Central pic I cloned nearby ballast over the little handles on the Peco turnout to hide them.  
 I also darkened the distracting spot of light that fell on the lens thus obscuring the coupling on the yellow RS11.
 There are many things you can do with the program including adjusting the colour balance.  I don't remember doing that to these photos because my camera can be used in the same way [ Ilike to add some blue into the image to get a better outdoor look]
 Of course the photos were cropped and the street scene was lightened. I may have reduced the contrast just a touch too. I can't remember.
 I reckon versions seven and onwards are very helpful, and a lot of fun to play with. They also have unlimited undo   :wink:

 Mike

Unlimited undo eh, that's for me. It's the 'do' part that I have the trouble with Mike. :roll:  

I think that rates an official "nice" Mike.
This hobby of ours really does have some unlimited potential.

Sorry for the delay in reply, Mike.  That appraisal of Photoshop was very helpful.  I might just invest … but at the moment I'm more focussed on the hardware of the layout.  Thank you :D