msirois Workshop Photos Received

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.

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.

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

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

(305)

Cropped

tournesol

(12862) [2005-06-03 20:49:21] [3]

I cropped the picture to get more of the cars lining up. I also corrected a small tilt, and added a frame.

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.

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.

No More Room on the Bench? (14)
msirois

(305)

Re-crop

tournesol

(12862) [2005-05-31 08:02:05] [1]

I didn't do much. Simply re-crop to remove the sneakers at the bottom and come flush with the bench on the right side. At the same time, I adjusted the perspective to make the bench more horizontal.

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.

Dead Tree in 3-D (6)
msirois

(305)

Quick Mask/Lens Blur/Sepia

(305) [2005-05-06 11:37:13]

You can see how many color variations there are in this, and how the color and sharpness of the closer objects don't allow the tree to stand on its own, so I decided to mask the tree off, and blur the background. Not an easy job (but at least the tree didn't have leaves on it).

Once I had separated the tree (painting with Quick Mask) and applied a lens blur to the background, it was better, but I hadn't isolated the ground around the tree, and so now it looked odd (like the 3-D images in a Viewmaster), so I masked off the ground and grass surrounding the tree, applied the same lens blur. Then I used the Blur tool and the Healing Brush to clean up some lines between the ground blur and the Canyon blur. It still wasn't right. Finally, I decided to convert it to sepia, which I did, then adjusted the levels, sharpened it, added a border, etc. Whew!

Oh, yeah. I forgot. I cloned a branch, flipped and rotated it, and pasted it on the other side of the tree because some shrubbery was covering a branch on the tree, then cleaned up the paste.