Something a little different . . .

TW · Postby TW » July 2nd, 2008, 3:31 pm

in photo editing.

Some pictures just can't be contained within their "photographic frame."

Try this technique sometime.

TW

Ilovebigcats · Postby **Ilovebigcats** » July 2nd, 2008, 4:53 pm

WOW! It looks 3-D.

Did you crop the pic but left the petals??

TW · Postby TW » July 2nd, 2008, 5:35 pm

The picture was cropped, but not to reduce it's size. I cropped it (oversized) to give me the white background the picture sits on. The first thing that I did was to determine how much of the leaves were going to "spill out" of the picture, then I made a straight white line (I did this in MSPaint) that established the left side of the "photograph background." If you try this be careful not to run the line through the leaves, just between them. Then I moved the picture into PhotoShop and used the various tools, mostly the magic lasso, to cut the parts of the photo out that I wanted to remove. Tidy up the whole thing with the eraser and your done.

TW

Ilovebigcats · Postby **Ilovebigcats** » July 2nd, 2008, 5:42 pm

Sounds easy enough...
It is too cool how 3-D'ish it is. :lol:

A2JGirl · Postby **A2JGirl** » July 3rd, 2008, 3:02 am

It DOES look 3-d! That is awesome. Definitely gonna have to try that.

Is this another one of rjc's photos?

rjc · Postby **rjc** » July 3rd, 2008, 3:11 pm

A2JGirl wrote:It DOES look 3-d! That is awesome. Definitely gonna have to try that.

Is this another one of rjc's photos?

Yep, I have a row of hisbiscus bushes along the side of my front yard and they are all different colors and types. TW has his work cut out when he comes down at Christmas this year, he is going to teach me how to do these neat things.

TW · Postby TW » July 4th, 2008, 4:43 am

Thought I'd pop this on here so you can see the difference this technique makes in a picture.

The original photograph was taken several years ago while I was on vacation in the Bahamas. It is your typical tourist picture. :lol:

Nice enough, but not really anything that stands out. In the edited picture I cropped out the sidewalk on the left side (I don't think that it added anything to the picture). Then I used the rectangular marque tool to cut the large areas on the bottom and the right side of the picture. The magic lasso was used to cut the area around the bow, then I cleaned it up with the eraser. I finished by re-cropping (over size) to restore balance and give a nice white background. The whole process took less than ten minutes. Of course the more complex the areas that are cut out are the longer it will take. Try it and have fun.

TW

Ilovebigcats · Postby **Ilovebigcats** » July 4th, 2008, 7:04 am

That is so awesome! I need to find a pic I can do this with!

A2JGirl · Postby **A2JGirl** » July 7th, 2008, 7:14 pm

I've been working on my 3d pic, but I did something a little different with mine....

My husband on a hiking trip last year.

It's not perfect, but I didn't think it was too bad for my first try!

rough_rider · Postby **rough_rider** » July 7th, 2008, 7:28 pm

Girl, that was a very nice job.

TW · Postby TW » July 7th, 2008, 11:00 pm

That is very creative. I like it. I would suggest that you eliminate the shadow by his head, I like the use of the drop shadow around the "photo." Great job.

TW

TW · Postby TW » July 8th, 2008, 12:20 am

A2JGirl,

I hope that you don't mind but I tweaked your pic just a little.

TW

A2JGirl · Postby **A2JGirl** » July 8th, 2008, 2:17 am

I don't mind at all! Saves me the trouble.

You are right, it looks much better without that shadow by his head. And you made the background gray! Good call, the edges show up better.

Thanks for the inspiration, TW (and the tweaking!)!

Penny · Postby **Penny** » July 8th, 2008, 2:21 am

MY COMPUTER is mean, it will not let me see these photos

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » July 8th, 2008, 4:22 am

That's just cool, y'all.

Jude 2