My Latest Photomanip (am rather chuffed)

melface · 19th August 2007, 1:30pm

My Dying Bride

What do you lot think? I know it's a somewhat predictable and cliched idea, but I'm pretty chuffed with the way it turned out.

I wasn't really expecting much.

Also, feel free to have a wee wander through my gallery.

Joe Spinebuster · 19th August 2007, 1:34pm

Pish.

**Shannow** · 19th August 2007, 1:42pm

There's a lot of grain in the top that's a bit distracting,, as is the overly brightened white area to the right, plus I think the darker area is just a little too dark, though the detail in i t looks a lot better.
Was the source image one you took or one found online?
The idea is not bad though, a tad cliche aye, but we all start somewhere, keep at it

melface · 19th August 2007, 1:45pm

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Originally Posted by Joe Spinebuster

Pish.

Constructive. NOW I see where I've been going wrong all along! Thanks for that.

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Originally Posted by Shannow

There's a lot of grain in the top that's a bit distracting,, as is the overly brightened white area to the right, plus I think the darker area is just a little too dark, though the detail in i t looks a lot better.
Was the source image one you took or one found online?
The idea is not bad though, a tad cliche aye, but we all start somewhere, keep at it

Thanks

Looking back at it, I think I focused too much on having a strong contrast between the shadow and the light (too much saturation for the light part maybe?). I got the orignal image as a stock image on Deviant Art, since I'm too poor/cheap to buy me a camera and use me some proper models at the mo.

Seph · 19th August 2007, 1:48pm

Let's get a manipulation contest on the go, eh SHANNOW?

Joe Spinebuster · 19th August 2007, 1:49pm

I was only winding you up, by the way. Well handled. I actually think it's pretty cool, although admittedly know fuck all about doing this kind of thing.

Like you said, you're maybe focusing on the contrast too much... The stark difference between the light bit and the dark bit seems a ltitle "sudden", it might be cooler if there was a more gradual fade?

**Shannow** · 19th August 2007, 1:49pm

Shoudn't be too hard to tinker with, assuming you work with layers instead of directly onto the base image. If you don't work with layers, start doing that now, and watch as life becomes so much happier.

Seph · 19th August 2007, 1:52pm

Layers are a tricky topic - I've sort of learned photoshop on my own over the years, but the tutorials for layers are just too distressingly dull.

melface · 19th August 2007, 1:52pm

Oh god yeah, I love layers. Couldn't do anything without them. Even for the simplest wee photoshop crap I end up using far too many layers. (If that's possible.) I guess it's better to be able to merge later than wish you'd made seperate layers earlier... or something.

**Shannow** · 19th August 2007, 1:54pm

I fear I may be a tad out of practise

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Originally Posted by Seph

Layers are a tricky topic - I've sort of learned photoshop on my own over the years, but the tutorials for layers are just too distressingly dull.

Layers are pish easy to learn, jsut avoid the tutorials and think of each one as a sheet of clear plastic on top of your picture that you can work onto without fucking up the original.

Seph · 19th August 2007, 1:55pm

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Originally Posted by Seph

Let's get a manipulation contest on the go, eh SHANNOW?

I'm going to be so bold as to quote myself to emphasise my enthusiasm.

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Originally Posted by Shannow

I fear I may be a tad out of practise

Layers are pish easy to learn, jsut avoid the tutorials and think of each one as a sheet of clear plastic on top of your picture that you can work onto without fucking up the original.

That's pretty much like saying to me 'time travel is really quite simple - just back and forward'.

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