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67 comments found!
Thread: Helpful hints | Forum: Photoshop
Hi lamb ! Following the sucession of your image from the first to the latest I'd say there's a vast improvement. Stelars' comment about creating/constructing a texture for the undercloth and robe is not a bad one at all. I mostly use Photoshop for post work of 3D renders and to add things I don't need/want to spend time modelling. It happends frequently that I see the need to "break up" a surface that have turned out "blank" or too smooth - ie, coloured only. The simple way is to use Filter->Texturizer and experiment with settings in Canvas or Sandstone. If it turns out too strong you can ease it in Edit->Fade nnnnn. ... and that's just one of all the tricks you can use. Sorry for not being able to show you any example, but I'm at work now with only a crappy puter and even worse monitor and no graphics tools what so ever, so i can only support in words ... As for the last image I find only one detail that doesn't look quite logic. The way the robe goes across the chest. The lining takes an upward turn, which kind of defy gravity :-) Wouldn't it be more natural if it took a slight downword direction ? ( Yes, I realise the job to change that, so we'll just let it slide, huh .. ? ) // Sorry for bad spelling and language errors. I'm dyslectic and English is not my native tongue // -- Bakkti --
Thread: Ur honest opinions plz! | Forum: Photography
Thank you. Swedish ( my native tongue ) is hard enough and it gets worse when in English ... For instance, I keep reading "tvernuccio" as "tevernucci" and have to remind myself it's wrong every time. Actually, I did a cut-n'-paste with your name and still didn't see I had missed out the "e" ... Well - that's life...Pascale .. ;-) -- Bakkti --
Thread: Ur honest opinions plz! | Forum: Photography
Sorry... I keep making these typos all the time. slight dyslectic, see. Please bear with me .. -- Bakkti --
Thread: Ur honest opinions plz! | Forum: Photography
i think it's "you and I". You know, like that old Swedish mistake "btre dig/du" ( better then you ).. No how did this thread all suddenly became about GRAMMAR .. ? :-O Zacko, go back to work now and I'll go back to .. whatever .. Pascal, the monochrome one is still the better choise imo ( to get this thing back on track.. ) -- Bakkti --
Thread: Ur honest opinions plz! | Forum: Photography
Zacko ! Sorry if I made you feel an idiot... That was absolutely not my intention, but I guess you get over it very quickly - right ? Guess what ? I was also at work when I wrote my post - and was bored stiff .... At those occations I think "F**k it!", log in at 'Rosity and then the bore is gone. // Zacko, jag fick en ingivelse n jag s att du hette Andreas, sjag var bara tvungen att kolla. Och visst hade jag rt. Du ** svensk ! :-) Kul !! // Sorry, folks - that was a bit of Swedish there since I found out that Zacko/Andreas is a fellow contryman. As a courtesy to all the translation is approx: " Zacko, I had a hunch when I saw your name was Andreas, so I just had to check. And I was right for sure - you are a Swede ! :-) Great ! " -- Bakkti --
Thread: Ur honest opinions plz! | Forum: Photography
I see you've already put no1 up in your gallery. Good choise ! When I "leaf" through the images in the gallery the flow is "unbroken" - so to speak. I mean - you don't start a concert with classics and then suddenly finish it off with a rumba ... ... or do you .. ? ;-) .. well ... perhaps ... sometimes ... No - it works better with the monochrome. Definitly. BTW it's all in all a very interesting website you've got there !! -- Bakkti --
Thread: Is It Just My Monitor Or .... | Forum: Photography
Monitor 2. At home now watching the same image in my 22" ViewSonic P225f Diamondtron calibrated with Adobe Gamma - and My God what a difference. The image pops right out of the screen! Alike dBgraphix the image is darker, as to I can't see much of the background more than a bit of yellow-green at imge top and a hint of background in low right corner, but a lot crisper and with full structure definition in the whites. pink tones come out much more nuanced and the yellow-brown's have a pleasent warm "glow". Seeing it in this monitor it's a damn good image with a well defined focus area. Bakkti.
Thread: Is It Just My Monitor Or .... | Forum: Photography
Monitor 1. At work right now with qite a crappy "no-name" CRT-monitor. ( Yeah - my cut-all-costs bossman found this cupon in a Corn Flakes package ...) I do see a hint of a yellow-greenish under vegetation close to the top, some rather dark green-grayish traces of it at bottom right and a slight hint of something around the petals. The petals themselves appear to be white ( with a slight blue-gray cast ), there's some pink to be noted and the brown and yellow tones look rather alright. I'll get back top you with another report when at home. Bakkti.
Thread: May Challange "Reflection/Refraction" | Forum: Photography
Sorry... It was that crap monitor at work did the grayish overtone. Looks much better in my own monitor. Bakkti. webmaster@jiger.org www.jiger.org
Thread: May Challange "Reflection/Refraction" | Forum: Photography
Nice one ! Looks kind of surreal... opens for many questions ...
First thing that cought my attention was that "surfboard"-thingy to the left of the door ( Shows how strong a "point" is in composition - especially when in a "signal colour" ). That and the "propeller tree" .... Feels odd, but it works.
What happends if you try to saturate colors a tad to loose the grayish overtone ?
( At work now so I can't do it ). Edit: Came to think of it now. It might be this crap monitor I'm having at work ...
Bakkti
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Message edited on: 05/17/2005 05:21
Message edited on: 05/17/2005 05:24
Thread: BW conversion...trying my hand at it | Forum: Photography
tibet2004uk:
I take it you are referring to me, so I'd like to say Thank You, and for the sticking around part - I'll see what I can do.
Inevitably, there will be periods when I vanish from the face of the earth since my line of work can be very intense every now and then. Deadlines, you know ...
Don't know about "golden source"...
Photo tech's are not really my business. I've been mostly into Image Composition, -Analazys and -Communication when active and now it's Editing and Retouch, but some have stuck over the years I guess.
As for Digital Photo - I'm mostly lost ...
Anyone else think this is drifting OT .. ?
tvernuccio - It's still a good image !! :-)
Bakkti.
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Thread: BW conversion...trying my hand at it | Forum: Photography
Honestly - it's a good one !
Kemal is happy, you're happy, I'm happy - everybody's happy.
.. me thinks .. ?
The most important part you say yourself:
...you just KNOW you have what you want.
About curves:
You keep playing with those settings. That's a way of learning the tool and what different manipulations do to the image at hand. Play around with it and see how the image responds, what parts of the curve corresponds to which image tones etc.
TomDart:
Learning photography the "hard" way was the only way before digital. Spending lots of hours in the darkroom was an excellent school, but I'll be the first to praise computer based image editing and refinements.
I can easily do 16 hours in the comfort of my normal living environment when deadline is round the corner and I wouldn't set foot again in a "lab" with smelly chemicals and dim, coloured light that makes you tired and weary.
Sure it's good to know what part of labwork an operation in PS ( or PSP ) correspond to from time to time, but trust me, there's nothing - besides developing film - you can do in a lab that you can't in PS ( or PSP ).
Bakkti.
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www.jiger.org
Thread: BW conversion, image to play with. | Forum: Photography
Here's my humble suggestion.
What I did was simply catch the sky area in PS 7.1 using Lasso tool and set Brightness/Contrast to Brigthness -15 and Contrast +15 to bring out the clouds a bit more.
That's all.
Bakkti.
webmaster@jiger.org
www.jiger.org
Thread: BW conversion...trying my hand at it | Forum: Photography
Hi ! Thanks cynlee. I don't seem to have that much time to be a general pain-in-the-butt, but I'll sneak in every now and then. I'll try doing it more often tho, since a good bit of the creative process consist of viewing imges and evaluate your own reactions on them. Michelle A: >...the old BW film adage, "expose for the shadows, and print for the highlights"..... An "eternal truth"-knowledge which seem to be more scarse with the growth of digital photography. Alas - digital don't seem as sensitive to it as classic chemical photography... Hope you didn't think I was trying to "set you straight" there, Michelle. It was just a comment I thought someone might find useful. What do you English speaking say ? " No pun intended " .. ? tvernuccio: Yes, I like it darker. Perhaps Kemal likes the hi-key since it "burns out" much of the "ware-and-tare", but you can tell him he looks good when he looks bad :-). Perhaps you could try playing a bit with a Curves Adjustment Layer ( or you didn't have PS .. ? ) to see what it can do to open up shadows a bit ? ... and back to Michelle A: >So you were a photo teacher? Where did you teach? Different education facilities in Sweden ( where I live ). Nothing fancy tho .. The full "title" was Photo- and Image Techer, since I mostly held classes and workshops dealing with composition, image analyzis and communication. A nice line of work until fund cutbacks cut back on the "culture section" - as always ... Nowadays I'm mostly doing photo/imgage editing and retouch work using PS 7.1. And that will probably be as close to a formal presentation as we will get .. ;-) Bakkti. webmaster@jiger.org www.jiger.org
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Thread: Helpful hints | Forum: Photoshop