Photoshop Tennis

SheRidesABeemer wrote in post #6895687
bar has been raised...

These last half-dozen or so are amazing. --- I've only been brave enough to post once (my Michelin man got smashed by a truck!!!), and now I'm embarassed to play again ! Nice job !

I went abstract...

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would have been nice to keep the full image in the frame

Yes, no... I don't know, but it's too much of a sin to let go of those beautiful colors...

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Edit: disregard that, work early tomorrow and I have no inspiration right now.

Houston! We have a problem.

DozerLYP wrote in post #6898095
Houston! We have a problem.

^ That is definitely a problem!

Too bad it is almost time for me to go home or I would do another one. Oh well, I'll play again tomorrow.

SamClarkPhotography wrote in post #6897581
would have been nice to keep the full image in the frame

I agree, don't almost completely delete people's previous work (no matter how good your work is). We had a talk about this a few pages back. Keep the old picture in the frame somewhere (in its - at least mainly - complete form).

Just bringing back the photography side of things

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How do you do the shadows?

jbdavies wrote in post #6899419
How do you do the shadows?

Ninja skills.

1. Duplicate the layer you want to make a shadow of.
   
2. colour overlay (black)
   
3. Duplicate that layer and merge the two together.
   
4. Reduce Opacity and Gaussian blur
   
5. Liquify/reshape/erase as needed
   

Stealthy Ninja wrote in post #6899477
Ninja skills.

1. Duplicate the layer you want to make a shadow of.
   
2. colour overlay (black)
   
3. Duplicate that layer and merge the two together.
   
4. Reduce Opacity and Gaussian blur
   
5. Liquify/reshape/erase as needed
   

Does that make sense?

lol.... somewhat. Thanks.

Stealthy Ninja wrote in post #6899249
I agree, don't almost completely delete people's previous work (no matter how good your work is). We had a talk about this a few pages back. Keep the old picture in the frame somewhere (in its - at least mainly - complete form).

I was just trying to move it on. it's no more deleted than it is resized to a 22.0 px camera screen or as a reflection etc.

Another thing with shadows is that they blur more as the further they are from the caster, they are usually very sharp at the source. The main thing is to learn perspective though, a good way to do this is to learn traditional drawing...But hey, this is a photography board
This may be useful:
http://www.mangatutori​als.com/tut/basic/shad​ow2.gif
http://mclc.osu.edu/rc​/pubs/lee/shadow.jpg

An easy way to get a shadow to blur gradually in photoshop is to hit Q for quickmask, draw a black to white gradient, hit Q again to get out of quickmask then apply your Gaussian blur. Or just use the blur tool :P

I justed googled "Photoshop shadow" and this looks like a pretty good tutorial: http://www.photoshopca​fe.com …st_shadow/cast_​shadow.htm

Joesus wrote in post #6901082
I was just trying to move it on. it's no more deleted than it is resized to a 22.0 px camera screen or as a reflection etc.

You get my point though?! Nice to have the whole thing in there some how.

On a side note. I sometimes feel the photos move on a little too fast. Like, they're just starting to get funny/clever then someone just sticks it on a TV screen or something. Sort of cheating IMHO.

Of course, if it's completely crowded, that's different.


The above one needs a battle between the space forces of Canon and Nikon IMO.

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