Ways of keeping your kids out of trouble

[cgratti]

Just playing around with some pics and Photoshop.

I am going to market these bottles for anyone interested.

http://pic13.picturetrail.com/VOL462/2258867/4420136/56550515.jpg

[rick barclay]

LOL. No parents should be without one. I'll take four, please.

[elbirth]

Haha, great picture choice of the girl. The expression on her face and the position of her arms and hands are great for the composition.

You did a fantastic job in Photoshop... did you do that just by messing around with it, or are there tutorials that show how to do something like this?
I use Photoshop quite a bit myself, but am not familiar with some of the filters (I know there's a filter to distort her like she's behind glass and all...)

[cgratti]

Haha, great picture choice of the girl. The expression on her face and the position of her arms and hands are great for the composition.

You did a fantastic job in Photoshop... did you do that just by messing around with it, or are there tutorials that show how to do something like this?
I use Photoshop quite a bit myself, but am not familiar with some of the filters (I know there's a filter to distort her like she's behind glass and all...)

Its a very simple operation. First place the little girl on a new layer in front of the glass, then use a layer mask on her and use the paintbrush tool set to the color black with about 15% opacity to reveal the details in the glass over the little girl, this makes her look as if she is actually behind the glass. That picture took me about 20 minutes to complete, with the toughest part being cutting the girl out of the origional picture, when cutting a picture to paste in front of the glass after you cut it use a 5 pxl. feather on it before pasting.

Hope this helps.

--Chuck

[PhotoMom]

That is great!!!

[boomer1959]

So you punch holes in the lid so they can breath? LOLOLOL :lol: :lol: :lol:

Great shot

[elbirth]

Its a very simple operation. First place the little girl on a new layer in front of the glass, then use a layer mask on her and use the paintbrush tool set to the color black with about 15% opacity to reveal the details in the glass over the little girl, this makes her look as if she is actually behind the glass. That picture took me about 20 minutes to complete, with the toughest part being cutting the girl out of the origional picture, when cutting a picture to paste in front of the glass after you cut it use a 5 pxl. feather on it before pasting.

Hope this helps.

--Chuck

Thanks for that info!
It hadn't crossed my mind at the time to just lower the opacity of the brush while doing the layer mask (which I've been recently learning comes in handy much more often than I had thought).
Also, not sure what version of Photoshop you're using, but I know at least since version 7 (possibly before?) there's an "Extract" feature that really works quite well. That's a really handy filter that helps you cut out things such as for something like this. It works great with keeping details of hair for higher-resolution images.

[cgratti]

Its a very simple operation. First place the little girl on a new layer in front of the glass, then use a layer mask on her and use the paintbrush tool set to the color black with about 15% opacity to reveal the details in the glass over the little girl, this makes her look as if she is actually behind the glass. That picture took me about 20 minutes to complete, with the toughest part being cutting the girl out of the origional picture, when cutting a picture to paste in front of the glass after you cut it use a 5 pxl. feather on it before pasting.

Hope this helps.

--Chuck


Thanks for that info!
It hadn't crossed my mind at the time to just lower the opacity of the brush while doing the layer mask (which I've been recently learning comes in handy much more often than I had thought).
Also, not sure what version of Photoshop you're using, but I know at least since version 7 (possibly before?) there's an "Extract" feature that really works quite well. That's a really handy filter that helps you cut out things such as for something like this. It works great with keeping details of hair for higher-resolution images.

I use PS7, but I am old fashioned and cut my things out the old way, then use the eraser to remove whatever else is left. Glad you liked the picture. Good luck on your own, make sure you post them for me to see.

--Chuck

[elbirth]

I use PS7, but I am old fashioned and cut my things out the old way, then use the eraser to remove whatever else is left. Glad you liked the picture. Good luck on your own, make sure you post them for me to see.

--Chuck

Nothing wrong with staying old fashioned with it if you achieve what you're after. I also have a Wacom tablet and the pressure sensitivity really helps with some things like that.
I'll definitely be posting more photos as I take them... and I'll be sure to make an attempt at doing some photo manipulation when possible. Very creative idea :)