The Photoshop Artwork Thread

edit: deleted photo and moved to my next post to save space / tidy up.

Some sort of Casio P'n'S camera (Exilim iirc)
Post processed in CS2 and Aperture to create this look.

Some constructive criticism required so I can learn to improve... still exhibits vignetting but I left it in.

 

Is it just the desaturation in the center, or more? We don't have an original with which to compare.



Side note; this thread is called "PS Artwork". Does that mean it should be for PS creations rather than just photography editing and processing, or does it encompass all digital image manipulation.

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Here's one falling in to the latter category, something that's very popular over at Flickr (multiplicity). Some might have seen it in the "What you look like" thread, but what the hell.

In this sense, it's basically an image that contains more than one of the same person.

The more I look at that image, the less I like the me on the right. I've got variations I might try in there instead. Just got a very bad posture and it bugs me.

The main image here is with me on the chair. The hairdresser was cut from a photo taken a little later with the exact setup in same lighting so as to be as near a match as possible. The hairdresser was then lassooed and pasted as a layer in the first image and tidied a little.

Obviously a tripod is used to keep camera position exactly the same. To ensure this further, I used a cable-release. In spite of wide lens and deep DOF, lens set to MF so as not to shift focus point. Obviously self-timer also employed.

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Similar techniques went in to this as with J-Pepper's Japanese Garden shot.

Original


Processed


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Combination of 2 bracketed exposures. One for the haze, t'other for the moon. Colours untouched.

 

Few years old and a bit crappy lookin now (dont like the layout of the type) but might aswel post it
Aint really done much since uni back but i'm gonna try and get started again

Final design. Lots of clone brush and tons of diferent layers to build the texture up.

Close up.

Original scan of a sign that I worked from.

Another design for the same project.


All my newer stuff is mainly in illustrator with some bits done in photoshop, I will see if I can dig some other stuff up. Or I might just make some new stuff...

Edit:\ Reduced the size, makes the images look pooh but oh well.

 

The original is complete different...



I don't know what I did to achieve this, but I think it gives it a totally different mood and looks better for it as it fixes some of the saturation / exposure problems of the original.
I haven't been post-processing for long.. so it was trial and error really (I have about 10 versions of it!).

That stuff is awesome Fibre+, do you do this for a living for are they side projects, looks very professional.

edit: included original so that side-by-side comparison can be seen.
edit: deleted original post (above)

 

I had meant PS Creations but I guess people can post whatever they want.

 

That's the secret. Matching lighting. I've seen SO many bad composites, and the reason is always the lighting doesn't match. It has to be from the same direction, and the same quality. Everything has to match perfectly.

I do a lot of work where I shoot the model in studio, and then add the backgound later, and sometimes I've even got to re-create the lens flare if it was shot into the light. If you don't do this, it's a dead giveaway.

You did a good job there

PLanning is the key to a good comp. Keeping it simple too. When you get a really complex idea, you start to run into logistical problems. Here's the components to a shot I had in my head for ages before I finally got around to working out how I was going to actually do it. I needed a girls sitting on a beach with fires around her, and star trails in a dramatic sky with a lighthouse in the background...

First I wanted star trails in the sky. This is quite easy to do, but to get long trails, you need a long exposure (in this case, 40 minutes) A medium format camera was obviously on a tripod, and pointed up, and north, so the pole star was within the frame. When I looked at the negative, I realsed there was a weak aurora that night, and the sky went a gorgeous colour. There were a few meteor trails too. You can't do this in a city... too much light polution. I was at least 40 miles from the nearest populated area.



Fires.. easy... grab some wood... go to beach... light fires... shoot fires.... run away when police arrive



Model. Less easy, as most models are a pain to work with when doing composites, as they have no idea what the final image will be like, and when explaining they get bored, and start messing with their nails or something... My wife charmain was used here because she's a true pro, and understands photography... a rare gift in a professional model.



This is pretty much raw... some work done as I prefered her legs from one shoot, but upper body from another... so this is already comped to start with... you can see the rouch work around the legs.

Next... piecing it together. If the lighting is right, they should go together easily in PS. Don't bother with magic wand or any other tools... just use freehand lasso or polygonal lasso set to around 5pixel feather to give a smooth edge. Cut out, paste in, and then use a very small and soft erase brush to tidy up the edges.

The lighthouse was entirely hand drawn in PS.

So.. there you go... Just thought I'd share that with you. ALmost got arrested, froze to death, roasted and hit by meteorites. All in a days work.

 

I was about to say I've seen you post that image somewhere before, but it's because I was looking at your site yesterday.

Fantastic comp. Obviously a lot of work gone in, and it shows in the final result.

The fires in that shot are very different from teh original further up. Did you manually create the three further fires from the one, or were there more shots with the fires a little more stoked?

I want to try a shot for star trails like that but there's too much light pollution 'round here. I'm a fair distance from the nearest urban area, but I'm surrounded by MoD land which has unbelievable lighting. Anything upwards of a few seconds pointed at the sky comes out orange.

 

No, you on the right looks almost manical. You cant get it too perfect because it just wont look right. The fact your hand is in a fist with the grin makes you seem almost retarded as well. You can imagine you sort of laughing a bit as you do it, which you in the chair just waits until he is done.

What you need is stone walls and floor imo.

EDIT: Thinking about it it probably wouldnt fit well with the shorts, and a few other bits. But it's sort of a behind closed doors surrealist picture, rather than something serious. If you go too far, it'll just turn into a B-W picture of yourself shaving yourself. Meh.

Pook: awesome pic! Spose it's a hellova lot easier if the missus understands what you're doing rather than some model who figures fishnets make her look fat.
I always tend to imagine scenes straight, rather than composite. And instead of adults, childish innocence can play a big part in putting across raw emotions in a picture: like standing against a tall building for perspective and looking up in awe. Brings in raw memories of childhood. Or kids playing a in field, looking confused, wondering where to run but surrounded by bright yellow oil seed rape taller than they are. Obviously, without having photogenic kids of your own, it's even harder to do (especially these days).

I need to learn how to use CS2 and Histograms as well. Im limited to basic fireworks skills

 

Err.. no.. I didn't have time before I had to run away from the police

The other two are basically added later from bits of the other fire, plus some airbrushing and cloning and healing.

 

Cool images guys. Very spectacular. Keep it up

 

On July 4th 2006 I took some pictures in Niagara Falls.

Original:


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Playing around in PS:


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I've got few other pan's while there:


(this is one of the family friends that went with us, I'm much younger =)


(this panorama is 34megapixels, too bad I could not upload it in that rez)


(last but not least, Niagara during the night)

And the photographer himself =)

 

Sorry mate.. forgot to reply to this.

It took a few hours.. can't remember exactly now, as it's a couple of years old. Probably about half a day's work. It was personal work.. just saw that bench in that greenhouse, and thought I'd shoot something that gave the feeling of what it said.

 

Couple o' pics taken and edited last weekend, they were taken with a Casio QV-R51 5mp point n' shoot digicam. There not exactly great pics but I like the duck, looks like a bit of a character

Edit:\ Added original photos, sorry if it takes up too much room.

Original



Original

 

Wow, those look great! What did you do in PS to these or are they as theyc ame out of the camera?

 

Thanks

Erm, I think I just did the usual things like Curves and Colour balance stacked up a few layers with diferent blending's and just generally played around. Can't find the .psd files, oops.

 

damn.. i think I better step it up a notch with my PS skills, no point having a nice dSLR when any schmoo with a P'n'S can post-process shots as good as these

 

I really need to try that out!
How did you do it. Looks awesome! I've never been able to get that kind of detail/colour out of the moon before.
What lens where you using?

Also, what is the exif info on it? Its been stripped? How long was the shutter, ISO, f-stop, etc?

Thx.


EDIT: I clicked the link for flickr. Got some info on how you did it. How about the exif info?

 

Here is a series that I've been working on, all about emotion. Let me know what you think!


Sadness


Fear


Envy


Ennui


Apathy


Affection


Acceptance

You'll have to click 'em and then enable the full-size viewing on Webshots (on the right-hand side of the page) to see 'em full size, but please do so! I've been progressively playing with the features of PS, teaching myself and learning from other people, too. Like I said, tell me what you think of them!

~Adam

 

nice work.