Forum: Photography


Subject: Another composite

Jack Casement opened this issue on May 01, 2001 ยท 13 posts


Jack Casement posted Tue, 01 May 2001 at 7:55 AM

This is a composite using a B&W photo I took in Madras, India and merged it with an old friend, a Bryce sky. Hope you like it

zimmer posted Tue, 01 May 2001 at 12:43 PM

Wow, impressive. The merge is really well done. Great work.


Syyd posted Tue, 01 May 2001 at 2:22 PM

beautiful, very moody....very still


bsteph2069 posted Tue, 01 May 2001 at 3:57 PM

Perfect just perfect. Bravo!! very good job!! I actually can't tell you used bryce. Bsteph


mjshepherd posted Tue, 01 May 2001 at 6:00 PM

Brilliant picture. Nice edge effect - really sets it off well. Mike.


Marshmallowpie posted Tue, 01 May 2001 at 9:01 PM

Bravo..can't think of saying much else, as it's all been said!


Jack Casement posted Wed, 02 May 2001 at 4:43 AM

Wow. Thank's everyone for your kind comments. Alpha asked about the technique so here goes. It really is very simple. I opened the Boat image which was a greyscale and it had to be converted into RGB. Very simple on Photoshop, it's just Image>Mode>RGB. I then opened the Bryce Sun and re-sized it so that it was bigger (but the same resolution) as the Boat picture. I then copied and pasted the Sun into the boat image. This will completely cover up the Boat image but this is where the "magic" comes in. Open the Layers Palette (F7) and you will see a box with the word Normal. Click the small arrowhead beside the box to reveal a drop-down men. Click on Multiply and then say "Wow!". As we made the Sun image bigger than the Boat image you can now select the Move Tool and drag the Sun image around to suit yourself. It was then finished off with a fancy edge from AutoF/X Edges Photoshop plugin. Hope this helps


leighp1 posted Wed, 02 May 2001 at 6:37 AM

OH my goodness...this is just fantastic!!!!


Lisas_Botanicals posted Wed, 02 May 2001 at 10:56 AM

Serenity ... I love it! ;)


Colm_Jackson posted Fri, 04 May 2001 at 8:36 AM

It is great to see work mixing photography with other mediums. Especially CG. Nice work Jack!


Antoonio posted Mon, 07 May 2001 at 2:23 AM

beautiful pic, really beautiful. But what I really like, is those edges. H o w did you do those? -N


Jack Casement posted Mon, 07 May 2001 at 3:51 AM

Antoonio, As I said earlier they were created by AutoF/X Edges, a great software package that has hundreds of fancy edges although I find that I tend to use the few same ones again and again.


Antoonio posted Mon, 07 May 2001 at 4:41 AM

...looks pretty damn good program... Over 10 000 edges? Huh. http://www.autofx.com/detail_pages/pgedetail.html -N