Need a tip for a more realistic effect

seaco · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:57 pm Post subject:

Well spotted Hermit told you I couldn't see it, but some body stop me I'm boring myself here!

zenno · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:02 pm Post subject:

zenno · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:03 pm Post subject:

Up until now, i always thought that my retouching photoshop talents were a litlle above average, but after seeing what everyone showed me here, i think i still need to study...hard....Starting with that vanishing point Hermit talked about.

zenno · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:06 pm Post subject:

seaco · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:50 pm Post subject:

Hi Zenno

No mate no vanishing point, lasso feather copy/paste transform and clone...

zenno · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:47 pm Post subject:

Naaa, it's so uniform, so perfect.....this must have been one hell of a transform tool usage. And what about the sky and the fabulous clouds ? Yo did not make them using those tools.

Obviously your copy/cloning technics are far better than mine.

Just for your info, my main goal is to make this picture completely memorable and people free so i can add later a decent picture of these newly wedded couple from another picture.

At first i wanted to do leaves like the ones you saw but i love your idea better, it's much more natural.

I will try tomorrow to replicate what you did. The longest part will be to do a decent sky. I mean, you even put some blue behind some of the side trees, how in the world have you done that ? There's way too much details in there for me to extract just the sky part from those trees. .....sigh.......

Thanks a lot anyway. I realy appreciate this.

seaco · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:43 am Post subject:

I believe in keeping it as simple as possible to get the effect I need, I left the people in as I wasn't sure if you wanted them (easily removed).

For the leaves I used LASSO chose any area to the right of the couple then COPY/PASTE to a new layer dragged it over the road then hit Ctrl+T to go into Transform if you hold down the Ctrl key you can drag the corners easier to a shape that works, you may have to copy and paste a couple more patches of leaves to fill the whole area ,then you can use the ERASER to reveal the couple!

For the sky I used LASSO and surrounded all the sky including all the light coming through the trees then COPY/PASTE to a new layer, I then used SELECT/COLOR RANGE then chose the sky color hit OK then hit BACKSPACE to remove the sky.

Open a sky pic you want to use and drag it onto the image make sure that layer is behind the one you just made, don't choose to dark a blue in the sky (or simply lighten it) as the edges of the trees will have a light halo on them...

This is so much easier to do than write,

Any problems give us a shout...

zenno · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:32 pm Post subject:

Sorry but something came up, i won't be able to have time for photoshop for 2-3 days. $?&?/?"%?$&?

But i promise you i WILL post my results after that short period and i will welcome all comments bad or good.

Thanks.

Patrick · Administrator

Nice job, Lee - with the photo and the explanation.

Welcome zenno.

Patrick

zenno · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:41 am Post subject: Ok, i am back..... ;-)

First, let me say that i tried both the grass and the sky.

As i find out, the grass will be easy but will take a long long time to have it perfect just the way i like because it's so much "patching" and it's hard to duplicate the shadow lines on the grass, i mean there's more than one...unless i removed them...hey, what a great idea ;-)

As for the sky, i tried the method you suggested but the result was much less appealing than what you have done.

Look, on picture one, i tried several fuzziness level but that was the best i could come up with. As you suggested, i lightened the sky. Please look at the left for sky part in the trees, yieurk....

On picture two, i extended the selection (about 4 pixels). I left the sky intact to show the edges that are not so perfect.

How can i efficiently use the color range tool to make more sharper selection. I mean, even with the tutorials i found on the net, it's never perfect like yours.

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