my very own diy lightbox

[Jasonvdm]

Befor


After


its an odernary phot of a toy car that i took in my own diy white box and then i added flames and a backround

and i have to say thanx to 300busa for giving me a visual of how the white box shopuld be set up thank you and ''man i love your pic its so cool''

[windrider86]

Can you share withg us how you added the flames and background, please?h

[kencaleno]

Very good effect, but you have made either a light cube or a light tent-A "light box" is for viewing transparencies(slides) .You will find that your light cube/tent will make things difficult and will produce more shadows than you need. All you require is light from a window,and a surface to photograph on. Then:

In Photoshop,

a) Zoom in 200-300%.
b) Use the pen selection tool to chart an exact path around the object.
Get it perfect.
c) Click on working path Icon in paths palette
d) Select> Modify> Contract by 2 pixels. Smooth by 3-5 pixels.
e) Select> Inverse-.
f) Select> Feather by 0.2 - 0.5 pixels.
g) Make sure foreground black/background white - Press Delete.
You now have isolated object on white background. (If you press x, then delete you will get a black background


Regards, Ken

[Jasonvdm]

wel all i did was go on to gimp aded 3 layers 1 flame wit a black backroun and a pic of sky
then i went to the layers tab and where it normaly says nomal i cliked there and sed aditive and hay presto you got it .and to answear u kencaleno's Avatar
kencaleno

i canot aford photoshop because i am only 15 years old thanx any way

[kencaleno]

Originally Posted by Jasonvdm

wel all i did was go on to gimp aded 3 layers 1 flame wit a black backroun and a pic of sky
then i went to the layers tab and where it normaly says nomal i cliked there and sed aditive and hay presto you got it .and to answear u kencaleno's Avatar
kencaleno

i canot aford photoshop because i am only 15 years old thanx any way

I used gimp before a friend gave me PhotoshopCS,and Gimp can do almost anything photoshop can do. regards, Ken

[ocnsprt]

That is a really neat effect, hard to believe your only fifteen and figuring out how to do things like this. I cant wait to see whats next. I think this is very well done so "hats off to you"