msirois Workshop Photos Given

Great Stone Face (÷)
msirois

(305)

Photoshop Filters

(305) [2005-08-15 16:01:41]

You can see the original needed some work. It was a gray day, the image is a little soft, so I decided to make it a little more photorealistic by using some of Photoshp's filters. Applied Posterize Edges, then Texture/Grain (soft grain type). I just kept adjusting the sliders on the filters until it looked the way I wanted it.

New Zealand

Title: Kids just want to have FUN!Sony Cybershot DSC-F828

Kids just want to have FUN! (14)
sway

(347)

Quick Mask/Lens Blur

(305) [2005-08-06 09:19:11] [5] [+]

I selected all the areas outside the two girls using Quick Mask and painting the mask on, beginning with a large hard brush, then gradually reducing the brush size while I increased the magnification (so I could see the edges). Then I left Quick Mask, inverted the selection, and applied a Lens Blur filter (Photoshop). I redid the outer frames because I messed them up with the Lens Blur. I selected the two framed areas separately, and applied level adjustments to lighten one and darken the other.

Canada

Glassed-In Interior (2)
msirois

(305)

Glass Filter

(305) [2005-06-25 10:36:12]

This is the original image.

After cropping it down to just the area around the opening, I selected the bottom rim of the opening in the ceiling so the only area that would be affected would be the opening and what you can see through it. Then I applied Photoshop's Distort/Glass filter to the selection. I used a Distortion setting of 7, and Smoothness setting of 2, chose the Blocks texture to create the squares, and scaled the blocks to about 140% so they would be more visible.

Canada

Title: St. Catherine's Under a Texas SkyCanon EOS 10D

St. Catherine's Under a Texas Sky (10)
msirois

(305)

Layers/Replace Sky

(305) [2005-06-03 19:09:34]

I opened an image that was mostly sky, selected the whole thing and copied it to a new layer on the St. Catherine's image. I duplicated the Background Layer, then dragged the Sky layer between the Background and the Duplicate. Then I deleted the Background, because I wouldn't need it any more. Then I selected most of the sky with the Magic Wand, then switched to Quick Mask. I painted in the rest of the mask by gradually reducing my brush sizes as I increased my view. Eventually, I was working at 500% with a 2 pixel brush. Once the mask was done, I exited Quick Mask, deleted the masked areas, and the sky appeared. I used the Eraser tool to get rid of a few tiny areas I missed in the masking process, then I flattened the layers, adjusted the levels, sharpened and resized the image before uploading.

Sign of the Missing (2)
msirois

(305)

Altering Over-exposure

(305) [2005-06-01 12:40:06]

This is the original image (so you can see how washed out the back of the hand was). To make it usable, I applie a neon glow filter in Photoshop, using black as my foreground color, light brown as my background color, and dark brown as my glow color.

Canada

Title: No More Room on the Bench?Canon EOS 10D

No More Room on the Bench? (14)
msirois

(305)

original image

(305) [2005-05-31 11:36:59]

This is a (reduced in size, of course) copy of the original image, just so you can see how overexposed the background was.

Poland

Title: morning in the mountainscanon 350d

morning in the mountains (29)
brzuchma

(3763)

Recrop / Levels

(305) [2005-05-25 14:55:26]

I re-cropped it into a square format to eliminate the light and the object on the left hand side of the original, to shift the focus to the one stream of light. Just a different interpretation.

Suckers
msirois

(305)

Copy/Move/Blur

(305) [2005-05-15 11:06:43]

The process was pretty simple. I drew a selection marquee around the three suckers in the upper right-hand corner, copied them, and pasted them onto a new layer, moving them to the position they are in the final version. I used the arrow keys to move the selection left, right, up and down until it lined up as closely as possible with the holes in their new area of the bathmat.

It wasn't an absolutely perfect fit (maybe the bathmat was stretched a little in some areas), so I used the Rubber Stamp to touch up some of the holes, then used the Blur tool to get rid of any remaining lines from the Paste. THen I flattend the layers, and sharpened and reduced the image.

Title: Michael's Blue PeriodCanon EOS 10D

Michael's Blue Period (6)
msirois

(305)

Convert Grimness

(305) [2005-05-12 13:33:34]

This is just for Richard. How's that for a sardonic smile? Photoshop's Liquefy Tool (stretched the lips on the sides, pushed back the grin line a little.

Belgium

Title: Musical Post-ProcessingNikon Coolpix 990

Musical Post-Processing (56) *
dmoniotte

(1730)

Extending the Image

(305) [2005-05-09 11:33:30] [10]

I added a white border, then extended the strings into it just by using the colors. The strings had lost their photographic realism after your post-processing, so all I had to do was to create masks for each of the blue areas of the strings, select the color from one of the existing strings, and paint them in. Then I did the same for the dark areas in the middle of each string.