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| sovietpop |
magic photoshop suggestions wanted to make duff photos lookless duff. or maybe turn 'crap' into 'arty'.I tried the tape on flash suggestion, and it worked pretty well. But the light levels were very low and I had my camera on at 400 asa so all my pictures look very grainy and out of focus. How do I turn this into a positive feature? The only idea I have is to do most of 'em in black and white, maybe with a blue duotone effect rather than black, but that's it. There isn't any way photoshop can really sharpen 'em is there? |
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| sovietpop |
the colour levels seem weird too, everything looks very red. | ||
| wraeth |
I've only just got propah photoshop (c/o firky and zenie) so I can't say anything helpful :-/ Colour levels can be adjusted though I thought :?
The clever ones will be along shortly - hang in there sovietpop and keep bumping the thread goddammit etc etc 
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| bristle-krs |
Re: magic photoshop suggestions wanted to make duff photos l
filter > sharpen > unsharp mask with 'amount' around 120% and 'radius' and 'threshold' quite low can help |
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| bristle-krs |
also, check out the image > adjustments stuff - curves, levels, hue/saturation etc | ||
| bristle-krs |
and use adjustment layers rather than working on the original! | ||
| sovietpop |
cool, I'll try all that. I reckon it is a good chance to try and learn a bit about photoshop.
My battery started to die on my camera, so I couldn't use the digital screen on it, and it was too dark to see anything through the view finder, so instead I just pointed the camera in the general direction, used the light from the autofocus to find the centre of my frame and took pictures that way. Usually I only take a photo after I've spend a while getting the frame so its a bit different for me to have to see if i can get a good frame afterwards using crop in photoshop, but as I said, its a good chance to work out what the program can do. |
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| bristle-krs |
firky's yer man, really, but i think photoshop's one of those things where you just have to plug away experimenting.
i'd recommend getting some copies of 'photoshop user' (from the national association of photoshop professionals), a decent mag with loads of tops tips. |
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| sovietpop |
and maybe I can finally work out how to make part of the picture colour and the rest of it black and white. | ||
| bristle-krs |
this might be of use: http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/7328/selectivecoloringfc9.jpg |
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| SoreenKid |
post ya images and i'll take a look, although if the original is duff there isn't much you can do with it. whack hte photograph on a new layer with a bit of old paper (just google for large images) as a third layer, knocking out the colour using channel mixers and adding a sepia tint to both layers can produce an olde style effect - you may also want to get some or create some brushes of smudges and tears for htat old look. | ||
| SoreenKid |
duplicate the image twice so you have two layers. one is going to be your colour layer and one is going to be your black and white layer. place your black and white layer on top. Now you can create a mask around the bits you want to keep in colur and delete the parts away on the top (B&W) layer, exposing the colour underneath, or just use the delete tool. If it is a complicated image I just use the delete tool as it is longer, but make sure you use a hard edged brush. if you're just doing an apple or something, just create a mask and rub it out quickly. (Make sure you use *channel mixer* to create a B&W layer) you can get some good results from it if you spend enough time: http://oxygenkiosk.net/photos/mai...g2_itemId=106&g2_enterAlbum=0 |
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| SoreenKid |
the above was said under the influence and however
krs is on the ball too, always work in layers doing increments 
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| strung out |
i'm so shite at photoshop it's quite funny
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| sovietpop |
Ta again for the hints. when I put them into photoshop I found they weren't as blurry as I thought. For some reason IView makes 'em look a lot grainer than they are in real life (anyone use iView?). | ||
| SoreenKid |
are you sure you're looking at them at 100%? Photoshop scales to 'view all' by default. | ||
| sovietpop |
No they look fine in Photoshop. It's in iview that they look a bit grainy.
Besides that iview is an excellent cataloguing program, I recommend it highly (and don't want to me started on what a foul and shitey piece of software iphoto is  )
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| SoreenKid |
I would if I:
Still had a computer Had a mac mmmm 24" imac then I could really 0wn bristle 
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| bristle-krs |
man maketh the machine, not the other way round, young whippersnapper | ||
| bristle-krs |
though i might be tempted to upgrade... | ||
| SoreenKid |
*puts on best beggar pout*
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