Paul Iddon
31st of August 2009 (Mon), 11:54
Some of have used Photoshop to add borders to images in the past, some more successful than others, and I've done some bad 'uns!
Today was a pretty drab day again the sunshine city of Preston (minus the sunshine of course) cos most days its more akin to rainy climes than anything else!
So I went into the garden. The two bees I saw were not hanging around, the daddy long legs the same, and I have done a fair few flies and spiders already, so it was back to plants - or more accurately, grasses.
So I placed two grass stalks in a small bottle and shot them against a neutral background - a hand towel.
This is the one:
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/pauliddon002/800colourgrass.jpg (http://www.pauliddon.co.uk/)
So now was the time to try and get a touch of creativity into the image, and using a few filters (Filters Unlimited plug-in) it became this:
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/pauliddon002/800grassB.jpg (http://www.pauliddon.co.uk/)
Of course the vast majority of what I add to forums has my (almost always) obligatory drop shadow, to help lift them of the forum page a bit more, but I decided to take this all a stage further and add a frame in Photoshop.
This is the part that most people would have already drawn the line at, but bear with me on this and you'll see where I am going.
Let me introduce the frame into the equation:
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/pauliddon002/800grassA.jpg (http://www.pauliddon.co.uk/)
There you go. That's the frame added and it actually doesn't look that bad does it?
So, to finish it off, perhaps the frame would finally look more in place, if it was in a place where it would look in place, if you get what I mean. So the final result is done by putting it on the wall. In Photoshop.
So I took a photograph of the wall itself (complete with light switch) and proceeded to put the grass framed photo into it. Colour matched the wall to the framed photo, and...
Et voilą
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/pauliddon002/800wallended.jpg (http://www.pauliddon.co.uk/)
Hope you enjoyed the story and how I did the final image. :p
Paul.
Today was a pretty drab day again the sunshine city of Preston (minus the sunshine of course) cos most days its more akin to rainy climes than anything else!
So I went into the garden. The two bees I saw were not hanging around, the daddy long legs the same, and I have done a fair few flies and spiders already, so it was back to plants - or more accurately, grasses.
So I placed two grass stalks in a small bottle and shot them against a neutral background - a hand towel.
This is the one:
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/pauliddon002/800colourgrass.jpg (http://www.pauliddon.co.uk/)
So now was the time to try and get a touch of creativity into the image, and using a few filters (Filters Unlimited plug-in) it became this:
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/pauliddon002/800grassB.jpg (http://www.pauliddon.co.uk/)
Of course the vast majority of what I add to forums has my (almost always) obligatory drop shadow, to help lift them of the forum page a bit more, but I decided to take this all a stage further and add a frame in Photoshop.
This is the part that most people would have already drawn the line at, but bear with me on this and you'll see where I am going.
Let me introduce the frame into the equation:
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/pauliddon002/800grassA.jpg (http://www.pauliddon.co.uk/)
There you go. That's the frame added and it actually doesn't look that bad does it?
So, to finish it off, perhaps the frame would finally look more in place, if it was in a place where it would look in place, if you get what I mean. So the final result is done by putting it on the wall. In Photoshop.
So I took a photograph of the wall itself (complete with light switch) and proceeded to put the grass framed photo into it. Colour matched the wall to the framed photo, and...
Et voilą
http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/pauliddon002/800wallended.jpg (http://www.pauliddon.co.uk/)
Hope you enjoyed the story and how I did the final image. :p
Paul.