anchar Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 My beginner attempts... Andrea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Andrea This is what I did with your picture of Will (?) after you said it wasn't a drawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchar Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 he has eyes....how did you do that? Andrea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Andrea, what did you use to get the effect on the second last picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchar Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Ummmm....Matty...I was hoping no-one would ask I'll play later and see if I can work it out again Andrea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 Andrea All I did was zoom in and select the Eyedropper Tool and pick up the faint yellow of the eyes. I then used the Brush tool to colour the eyes the selected colour. Then by changing the colour to black and reducing the Brush diameter to 3 pixels I was able to draw the eyes. I then used the Filter - Artistic - Watercolour function to get the final effect. Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchar Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 Thanks for that Ged...I spent about 40 mins trying to work layers out today and got nowhere I wish I was more computer savvy Andrea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fman Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 Andrea Try this "book". Your previous posts are great. Don't try to learn too much at once. Just get a handle on the basics, then work your way up. http://www.photocourse.com/download/PSE2-samples.pdf Merry Christmas to all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fman Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 I've been playing around with photoshop, and using layers to make frames. Here are a few results: Cheers, Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squidfish Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 Hi Thought I would share with you a method of cleaning pictures up in PS. It does not seem to matter how good your filtration system is or how well you clean the glass, spots and speckles produced by particles and small bubbles in the water often appear on a fish photograph. I bet there are not many of you who use photo editing software to clean-up their images who have not applied the clone / healing brush. I am using Photoshop for this example but I am sure it could easily be applied to most editing software. The method may not work for every picture and will have its limitations but could be a technique that might be worth trying on occasions The main constraint of the method is that it is going to cause some background blur but that’s not always a bad thing. Keep an eye out for how the background is reacting to the noise filter. Here’s the start image…taken just after a water change. A messy shot with lots of particles in the water. 1) First step is to create a duplicate layer of the background. Make sure the duplicate layer is selected. 2) Go to Filter >>> Noise >>>>>Dust and Sctratches 3) Apply the filter, having adjusted the sliders to produce the desired effect taking note of how the background is reacting. Occasionally some touching up with the clone brush may be required after filter application. You will notice that you image is not looking too sharp at this point!!! Don't panic 4) With the duplicate layer still selected, take the eraser and go over the areas you want to remove the filter from. This may be just the fish, as for this shot, but in other pictures you may also want to bring elements of the foreground such as a stone or rock back into focus. Nearly there...time to reduce the brush size for the edges. 5) You have now finished with the eraser. Obviously for some fish such as those with finely divided fins (Crowntail bettas spring to mind) this erasing process could take a long time. Now it time to flatten the two layers into one image. You may wish to undertake any final touch-ups with a clone brush. Looking at this shot I would probably now go back and clone out the red area around the tail but at least this photo series shows the technique. 6) A final sharpen and exif stamp script By the way I still do not now for sure what species this is...lol. Some kind of Copadichromis I think Cheers Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiNETiC Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 Here's something I was fiddling with a little while ago. I still need to do a bit more work on it to be happy... Original After Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 still need to do a bit more work on it to be happy... Yeah I'd be spewing about that dodgy effort too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fman Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 I've just been going through a bunch of images, and looking at some "rejects". Ten minutes later, I've managed to rescue a recent image from what appeared to be a dud: Before: After: Before: After: With a few minutes editing, it's possible to generate a reasonable image from what initially appeared to be a dud. Most of the editing wad done using "levels". Cheers, Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchar Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 Big difference there Frank...hopefully I'll get more proficient soon Andrea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 Frank I find I always get a washed out look and I don't know how to overcome the problem. Can you provide a bit more detail as to the process you used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fman Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 Ged Do you mean that your photos are washed out before you put them through Photoshop, or they come out washed out after you adjust them in Photoshop? If it's the former, then your camera is over-exposing. Depending on the type of camera you have, and it's degree of manual control, you can overcome this. It's a matter of understanding your camera's exposure mode, and knowing how to set up with the correct exposure. If the latter, then it's simply a matter of getting to learn how to use the "levels" (mainly) control in Photoshop. Once you have a handle on levels, then look at contrast, colours, hue/saturation etc. There are heaps of Photoshop tutorials on the web. They're all aimed at different levels of proficiency. Here's one I just called up via Google: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorial...photoshop.shtml If you need more help, just holler. Cheers, Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 It was the latter of the two. When you are talking about levels do you mean layers? The link was very helpful so I will muck around with a few photos that need saving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fman Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Ged Layers and levels are not the same thing. However, you can use an adjustment layer to alter your levels. Sounds confusing, but just keep googling for photoshop help and tutorials on the web. There are literally hundreds of them. These places are also quite good (explain it better than I could): http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshoptutorials/ http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/1 Are you letting your photo editing software adjust your images automatically? Sometimes they do a good job, sometimes not. It's better to adjust manually most of the time. Also, how long since you "calibrated" your monitor. Photoshop comes with a program called "Adobe Gamma Utility". These are explained here: http://www.technologyforall.com/TechForAll/photoshop.html http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/321608.html Sorry to be so long-winded, but I'm just trying to cover all your options. HTH Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 been playing with PS lately. here what i did the other day before after before after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaZ Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Budi could you share some of your techniques please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Budi could you share some of your techniques please? ← errrr not really it's for the 1st time i tried that technique. anyway... firstly I created a duplicate layer and then went from there. In the duplicate layer: - did level adjustments, - darkened the background using burn tool, and - played a lot with the blending options I repeated those steps until the image (esp. the dark BG) turned out the way I wanted it. well not bad... 1st time I was using another layer to edit the image. Took me at least 20 mins. hopefully i'll know what i'm really doing next time Lastly, color balance was corrected and image was sharpened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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