What’s Your Preference?

private · #1 (**permalink**) 08-09-2008, 11:26 PM

So here is the picture I used:

to create this:

THe cloud image I burned to high heaven

The moon I cut out and overlayed at 75% opacity
the shot w/the geodome I copied and pasted onto the cloud one
and then I added a bolt of lightening and then adjusted color and brightness and burned the fence...

All comments welcomed - This is my first layering project...

mrpolitics · #2 (**permalink**) 08-09-2008, 11:53 PM

pretty wild looking, nice job.

lputman · #3 (**permalink**) 08-09-2008, 11:55 PM

Pat...I'm so glad that you've ventured...

I love the concept and the photos that you used. The lightning...doesn't quite work for me. I can't put my finger on it though. I think the perspective is off. Something that close I would imagine the lightning would be overpowering. This lightening is missing it's oomph...

private · #4 (**permalink**) 08-10-2008, 12:03 AM

Should I make it bolder, more "fingers" where should it point? That was kind of my issue also... Maybe have it go behind the fence?

Daisie · #5 (**permalink**) 08-10-2008, 12:16 AM

I don't know if it's what you're going for, but the lightning looks totally unbelievable. I mean, there's no rain, no storm clouds, and I doubt that, so up-close, lightning looks like a white zigzag coming down from the sky. If I remember my science correctly, a bolt of lightning is about half an inch in diameter, and your lightning looks way too thin compared to the fence.

If i were you, I would abandon the lightning idea altogether and try to come up with some other way to add interest.

lputman · #6 (**permalink**) 08-10-2008, 12:16 AM

Bolder, behind the fence and the background of the actual path of the lighting brighter...remember, lighting really lights up a sky.

private · #7 (**permalink**) 08-10-2008, 02:46 AM

ok - I am playing with this plug-in and I do not think I can make it any wider or bolder -

But, I sure will try...

arphot · #8 (**permalink**) 08-10-2008, 12:55 PM

It appears as though you're getting the layer thing down. Perhaps the elements here might not be right in relationship to each other. The brightness of the geodome & the thin "string-lightning" just don't seem to go with the background. The moon, clouds and fence are actuall a great start (IMO). The other items just seem to detract. Keep it up though. Your placement of these layers and the way each element sits there looks good. I can't tell that you C&P'd the geodome. So, well done with your layering project. Keep it up.

PS . . .my first layering project was kinda weird. If you don't mind the hijack (delete it if you want) . . . the clouds, the headstones, the face in the window, the moon and the trees are all seperate layers. I drew the house. So, I really give you credit for your first try.

private · #9 (**permalink**) 08-10-2008, 02:28 PM

I really like that - that would make a great Halloween Party Invitation. And BTW, I LOVE seeing what other people do - it inspres me to try something new - gets the creative juices flowing, hmmm, maybe I will start a thread called layering...