The "how would you edit this photo" game.

[Mr G]

This one was a bit of a stickler mr ZeroCool but this was my thoughts

 

[Phil Young]

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[Phil Young]

 

[swanseamale47]

Nice and moody.

 

[Pork]

This one was a bit of a stickler mr ZeroCool but this was my thoughts

Like that James. How do you add the shadows, it works really well.

 

[new2me]

Like that James. How do you add the shadows, it works really well.

pity they're going towards the sun?
like it though

 

[Dene]

Just came across this thread i need to get round TP More

Global Warming

 

[touchMe]

Like that James. How do you add the shadows, it works really well.

 

[touchMe]

Pork: How I did mine, a simple explanation

Paste the driver etc to a new layer (name it driver for example)
Duplicated that layer (name it shadow)
Place shadow layer below original driver layer
Flip the shadow vertically - if 6 o'clock type arrangement
Move the shadow to suitable position
Reduce the exposure of shadow layer to create silouette
Reduce the Opacity to allow floor to show through

If there's not a full tutorial on it, i'll create one ... or if there's an easier way, let me know

 

[Mr G]

pity they're going towards the sun?
like it though

oops cant believe I did that

This is a more detailed way done in cs5


Go to File and open your image Use the Quick selection tool to make a selection of the figure.

Go to Edit, and click copy. Go to the Layers palette, and create a new layer. Then go to Edit, and click Paste.

Go to the Tools panel, and select the Magic Wand tool. In the layer you just pasted the figure into, click on the area of the image outside the figure. Now go to Selection, and select Inverse.

Go back to the Layers palette, and create a new layer. Go to the Tools panel, and select the Fill tool. Fill the selection with black.

Now go to the Layers palette, and move the "shadow layer" below the one with the figure on it, but still above the background layer.

Next, go to Edit and then Transform, and select Distort. Use the handles to pull the shadow down into position.

Now go to Filters, then Blur, and apply Gaussian blur of about 3. Finally, change the layer opacity to about 60

Now that is a more in depth way of doing it, to get yourself more funky shadows

 

[Pork]

Many thanks for the great explanation chaps, top stuff.

 

[Snipet]

I was trying to get a zombie feel to it but i suck so much at PS, any way my atempt:

 

[new2me]

 

[Snipet]

Lol, sorry just actually looked at my picture. It sucks so bad, and it looked so good in my head to

 

[new2me]

Lol, sorry just actually looked at my picture. It sucks so bad, and it looked so good in my head to

dont apologise man ... just a bit of fun

 

[swanseamale47]

Made me think of that series Lost with the polar bear on that island, never did find out what the hell was going on in the end.

 

[stupar]

Anything further happening with this?

 

[ZeroCooL]

Well it looks like our photoshoppers couldn't handle the pressure!! I'll pick a winner tonight

 

[Ryan_W]

This took me hours....................

 

[ZeroCooL]

Right, well as good as some of the other ones are, they are all a little crazy

I do love this thread...

But i think the one i have looked at the most and like because i wish it looked like this when i took the photo...

Heres my effort.

Loving the colours...

(shame there are no bears or planes though)

Over to you Swanseamale!

 

[swanseamale47]

Thank you, sorry there was no bears, I'll keep it in mind for next time.

Heres the next one then.

 

[ZeroCooL]

Pork : you were a close second by the way, i lol'd at the terrorist pic!

 

[Phil Young]

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[ZeroCooL]

I promised myself only 1 hr edit time!

My idea :

 

[Pork]

Pork : you were a close second by the way, i lol'd at the terrorist pic!

Aww thanks for the mention, I’ll try and be a little subtler next time.

 

[Pork]

I promised myself only 1 hr edit time!

My idea :

Holly smokes, now that’s going to be hard to beat! Great stuff mate

 

[new2me]

Holly smokes, now that’s going to be hard to beat! Great stuff mate

exactly what I was thinking I couldn't even think of an idea in an hour, never mind execute it

 

[swanseamale47]

I promised myself only 1 hr edit time!

My idea :

If this happenes you know who's going to get the blame don't you

 

[Kerioak]

As its a beautiful spring day I thought I would go for a spring version - have I overdone it ?

(If it disappears it is because I am changing hosts and will have to reload everything to the new one anytime now).

 

[Pork]

Image changed

 

[ZeroCooL]

I love that spring one Kerioak, would never have thought of that..... and Pork that picture is amazing. You got that water spot on!

 

[Phil Young]

You stole my clouds and then added a lake haha! I didn't give permission for that!!!

 

[Pork]

You stole my clouds and then added a lake haha! I didn't give permission for that!!!

Oops I’m so sorry, you’re right! I downloaded the wrong pic, lol. I’ll re-do my pic again with the correct one this time.

 

[ZeroCooL]

CALL THE POLICE!!!

 

[Phil Young]

CALL THE POLICE!!!

lol! It's bloody disgusting!!!

 

[new2me]

You stole my clouds and then added a lake haha! I didn't give permission for that!!!

Glad you noticed! I was going to boycot this one otherwise

 

[Pork]

I’d have him sectioned, oh hang on…

 

[Kerioak]

I love that spring one Kerioak, would never have thought of that..... and Pork that picture is amazing. You got that water spot on!

Thanks ZeroCool - combinination of about six pictures plus cloud brushes - having made them I am going to use them


I did wonder if Pork had noticed he was using someone else's picture as a starting point

 

[Pork]

I did wonder if Pork had noticed he was using someone else's picture as a starting point

I didn’t, it was a genuine mistake that’s been rectified.

 

[swanseamale47]

Is that what they mean by cloud computing???