You guys even inspired our good friend Red Fox.
Photoshop Fun
- Thread starter MOOSE
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On Friday, Adobe announced that they were launching a public test of a new online version of Photoshop that is free.
You can find it here: https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html
or read a Washington Post article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032700230.html
You can find it here: https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html
or read a Washington Post article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032700230.html
Pat Anderson
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OK, Bill inspired me to fire up GIMP...Here is True Story in Desolation Sound as a charcoal sketch!
Too cool, Dude!
Dunno why, but I've always been drawn towards black/white sketches a little moreso than color mediums. Kind of allows one's imagination to "fill in the blanks"...
If you want to add fancy virtual matting and/or picture frames via The Gimp, here's a link to a site describing how, that also contains a plugin to do it.
Dunno why, but I've always been drawn towards black/white sketches a little moreso than color mediums. Kind of allows one's imagination to "fill in the blanks"...
If you want to add fancy virtual matting and/or picture frames via The Gimp, here's a link to a site describing how, that also contains a plugin to do it.
Pat Anderson
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And once again back to Photoshop for Knotty C Don's Cutout filter!
Pat Anderson
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OK, gonna bookmark that one too! Yes, the charcoal sketches are sort of my new favorites!
Da Nag":1ur76mh9 said:
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Anonymous
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MOOSE":367kny3t said:
PS has always inspired me, it's one of those things that I keep swearing to make more time for, but I can't seem to get away from the water or my danged :bat "bOrG cUbE" :smiled doin' sumtin al the time
:crook lol seriously, my eyes get all buggered-up when I sit at these 'puters too long, maybe the welding is catching up and I can't take both :xseek Thanks for sharin Al ol buddy :beer and thanks for thinkin of me TyBoo ol pal, peace! :wink
marvin4239
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Pat Anderson
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Back up to the top! Went sailing out of Shilshole a week or so ago with my neighbor and daughter's finance's dad, turned around and snapped a shot leaving the marina. Three versions, I like them all actually, but I think I like the charcoal drawing the best (done in Gimp).
China painting:
Cutout:
Charcoal drawing:
China painting:
Cutout:
Charcoal drawing:
Wandering Sagebrush
Free Range Human
Pat,
Nice shot. My favorite is the "Cutout". Are you using Photoshop 6?
Steve
Nice shot. My favorite is the "Cutout". Are you using Photoshop 6?
Steve
Pat Anderson
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Using Photoshop CS2 for Mac...my house is now a Windows free zone, OSX on the iMac and MacBook, Ubuntu on the PC ...Gimp on both the Mac and the Linux box. I like the cutout too, it is close between the cutout and the charcoal - the China painting is definitely a distant third for me...
Wandering Sagebrush":3qbkoh2p said:
The weather has continued bleak, so I've been compelled to spend yet more time with Photoshop. This is a composite of two photos. The pic of the MOOSE was taken by at close range by Myrna, standing on a beaver lodge! And Thunder Cape was taken a few years earlier when we were actually there rounding it. Since it's devlishly hard to get a picture of your own boat while in it, this technique is a way to immortalize your travels anywhere.
Al
Al
Wandering Sagebrush
Free Range Human
Here's how I enhanced the photos below.
1) Use the "Elliptical Selection" tool to select the area you want to focus on. In my case, I selected the heron.
2) Invert the selection so that the other portion of the photo is now the selection.
3) Add an Adjustment Layer that is Brightness/Contrast. Then adjust brightness to a -30 or another setting that you believe looks appropriate.
4) Since the edge is obvious, go to Filters, and select Gaussian Blur with a setting of about 100 pixels.
5) Click the eye icon to see your impact on the composition.
Rob Sheppard is the photographer that documented the technique in Outdoor Photography.
Because I had to resize in Photobucket, the effect is not as obvious as in Photoshop, but the background in the "After" composition is much deeper, and it makes the heron stand out more dramatically.
Before:
After:
1) Use the "Elliptical Selection" tool to select the area you want to focus on. In my case, I selected the heron.
2) Invert the selection so that the other portion of the photo is now the selection.
3) Add an Adjustment Layer that is Brightness/Contrast. Then adjust brightness to a -30 or another setting that you believe looks appropriate.
4) Since the edge is obvious, go to Filters, and select Gaussian Blur with a setting of about 100 pixels.
5) Click the eye icon to see your impact on the composition.
Rob Sheppard is the photographer that documented the technique in Outdoor Photography.
Because I had to resize in Photobucket, the effect is not as obvious as in Photoshop, but the background in the "After" composition is much deeper, and it makes the heron stand out more dramatically.
Before:
After:
Pat Anderson
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Let's bring this guy back up to the top. I have been playing a lot more with Gimp. I posted this one before, but this has a bit more done to it. I like this one better, morel like pen and ink stippling...
