Love

Love, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

This was shot using a GoPro sport camera. I love the wide angle lens on this small compact camera. I used Gimp to cleanup the image and to bring out the colors in the sky. I masked out the 'LOVE' using the free-select tool and included the lower half of the image in the selection. I inverted the selection so that I'd be working on the building and the sky only. I used levels to bring out the clouds and the sky. Once I had them they way I wanted, I inverted the selection and used the hue and saturation to bring out the red in the sign. I did a selection of the water fountain and colorized it with a shade of green and lightened it slightly to make it more dramatic. Lastly I selected an arc near the bottom and used a gradient to give it that dark to light transition.