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TurboLaserAWD
08-28-2006, 01:53 AM
I found this picture of a flower I had taken a while back and I did a little work in PS to it. I just wanted to get some opinions on the picture and the touch up.

http://htown-dsm.com/ryan/pink_flower.jpg
David Seale
08-28-2006, 09:55 AM
its nice, whats the original look like?
TurboLaserAWD
08-28-2006, 09:57 AM
I'll have to downsize the orinal and upload it when I get home.
draikonz
08-28-2006, 10:00 AM
nice...it looks like that flower just floating there cause you can't see where the flower's growing out of ...great illusion
Slim ThuG
08-28-2006, 11:40 AM
is it me or is it out of focus?
Costas
08-28-2006, 11:48 AM
i dno but flowers bore me.
Johnny Thunders
08-28-2006, 11:49 AM
When I first started using photoshop I was so obsessed with coloring pictures like that.

It's fun, isn't it?
TurboLaserAWD
08-28-2006, 12:40 PM
When I first started using photoshop I was so obsessed with coloring pictures like that.

It's fun, isn't it?

Yeah it is but somewhat time consuming. The filaments were a bitch to work around.

And about the focus, the picture was at 55mm f/5.6 so parts of it are in focus and parts of it are not. Even the parts that are in focus don't seem like it because of the glow effect.

Yes flowers are boring, but this was one of the few decent macros I've taken and kept so I decided to work with it. Go see my lizard in the random photo thread. :p
TurboLaserAWD
08-29-2006, 12:00 AM
Here is the orignal:

http://htown-dsm.com/ryan/pink_flower_original.jpg
Retardo
08-29-2006, 12:14 AM
badass. do u like select everything but the flower and change it to blk/wht or what?
draikonz
08-29-2006, 01:10 AM
badass. do u like select everything but the flower and change it to blk/wht or what?

basically....yeah, thats how you do it aha...I use the channel mixer :hsugh:
draikonz
08-29-2006, 01:17 AM
http://xaa.xanga.com/3fe01547314a716244102/b11684194.jpg
Retardo
08-29-2006, 01:24 AM
http://xaa.xanga.com/3fe01547314a716244102/b11684194.jpg
lol i hadda look at the pic twice. 1st time iwas like wtf did he do? lol
TurboLaserAWD
08-29-2006, 10:39 AM
badass. do u like select everything but the flower and change it to blk/wht or what?

Yeah I just selected everything that I wanted to keep. Because the orignal picture was a 6mp picture and my crappy monitor at home is only 1024x768 I had to compound the selection by using the shift key to add to the selection. Then I inverted the selection and desaturated.
mr toolio
08-29-2006, 11:02 AM
Yeah I just selected everything that I wanted to keep. Because the orignal picture was a 6mp picture and my crappy monitor at home is only 1024x768 I had to compound the selection by using the shift key to add to the selection. Then I inverted the selection and desaturated.

hah.. thats the LONG way to do it. duplicate layer, desaturate, and erase.. done!
TurboLaserAWD
08-29-2006, 11:52 AM
hah.. thats the LONG way to do it. duplicate layer, desaturate, and erase.. done!

Yeah I could to it that way but that's not very accurate because the erase tool still has a small ammount of feathering in it. That would be a good idea for the blurred edges though because I could just change the opacity of the eraser so it blends better.
mr toolio
08-29-2006, 12:06 PM
Yeah I could to it that way but that's not very accurate because the erase tool still has a small ammount of feathering in it. That would be a good idea for the blurred edges though because I could just change the opacity of the eraser so it blends better.

change the erase brush style and you wont have feathering!