(5 years and 1392 days ago)
4 Sources:
- 1: Tree
- 2: Forest
- 3: Bird Brushes
- 4: Sky
Drivenslush says:
This is really cool!!! Do you think the light on the tires and window is too bright for the light in the graveyard (blending issue)? Masking and assembling is awesome. Really neat idea 
Good luck
author says:
I do...and I looked at every way I know how to try and remedy it and couldn't get a result I liked...I've played with the levels, looked at selected color, tried desaturating it and turning down the brightness...none of it yielded a result that I felt better about than what I have now. The highlights on the tires are so hot that you can't really blend them out without making the blacks so dark you lose all detail.I will keep playing with it, but I wanted to get something out there since I was short on time for the contest.
Drivenslush says:
You might want to use the burn Brush set on a super softness and gently brush the bright areas on a separate layer that you can later blend into the bright layer. That sometimes works. I find if I work on a separate layer and go a tad overboard with the reduced brightening, then placing it over the original and reducing it's opacity that sometimes works. You really did a great job on this creation... you can also brighten the background, but that would defeat the theme of the creation. Good luck and great job
author says:
There...damn you driven! You always push me to be better than my laziness wants! 
Drivenslush says:
Damn Me? Oh dear, get in line...hehehe.. great improvement, the glare is gone as well as the sun stroke on the tires the back ground now matches the foreground and is very believable... congrats I'm not as crazy as most think of me LOL
This would be a fine image if you took the time to fix the jagged edges on the turtle. Using the magic wand tool is rarely the best way to isolate an image. The pen or lasso tool set to 1 pixel feather creates clean edges that are not too sharp.
I assume you are referring to the front flippers and the two upper divots on the rear flipper and maybe a little touch up on the bottom rear edge of the forest. Yes, I used magic wand on them because, well, it's Sunday morning and I didn't feel like working hard
. Just couldn't let me get away with a lazy chop could ya' Bob? LOL...Thanks for the feedback... I'll go back and play with it a little later and clean it up, so hold your vote.
Actually it's all the edges. Some are worse than others.
Alright, that's as clean as I can do it. That pic is actually not nearly as clean as it looked....lots of bleed over, especially along the back once you start looking at it in zoomed in high res.
Much better. See, it was worth it!
LOL...I appreciate the feedback...nice to have someone push you to work a little harder. Now we will see what the score says...
Also, a little tip with the pen tool. I have found that once I complete my path, if I load it as a selection and then contract the selection by 3 pixels, I seem to get a cleaner cutout.
Depending on the size you're working 3pxls might be a bit too much at a lower resolution like 72pxl. At 200pxl I find a max of 2pxls with contract works, I also use refine edge to smooth out the selection, usually set at smooth-2. Also using layer mask is more forgiving since you can go back and change your silo where needed.
I like the image very much, a little clean up on the edges would help as Bob suggests.
I agree that the pen tool is theoretically the best way to select an image since it's math based and not pixel based. However there are some images that can be silhouetted much faster and just as smooth with the proper use of the magic wand. I did just that with this source image using the magic wand with layer mask and got a clean accurate silhouette in less than five minutes.
My first job as an artist involved silhouetting B&W photos for catalogs with white paint and brush (no Photoshop in those days). I still use the same technique in Photoshop for much of the silo work, I can work faster than using the pen tool. I don't recommend that for everyone, it's just my experience that makes it easier for me.
If anyone is just starting out with Photoshop take the time to learn the pen tool, it is the best way to make selections once you've mastered it.
This tutorial is a big help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bJSWni7Huw
You'll find others on youtube that are also good.
Good work, good idea... I just do not like the border and the white space, you might want to think that over. But in the end it should be your work, so it's up to you
I tried to upload as a png-24 with an alpha channel to eliminate the circle in the square, but apparently the site will not display it correctly. I stand by the round border though because I think it frames the image nicely. There are curves all throughout the piece and the frame goes with that.
Morla? hehehe
Actually, if this guy is flying, perhaps some motion blur is needed rather than all the very sharp edges. Just an idea, for I love your overall idea.
My thought on that was that he would be very, very large, so not much speed...no speed, no blur
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