What Would You Do? #152

[douglas]

Originally Posted by giovanni.dcunha

On and on and on...

This is my first attempt at learning how to add animation to photos.

In Photoshop CS2:

1. Cloned off the tourist in the distance and the manhole lid
2. Adjusted levels and curves a bit

In Squirlz Water Reflections (program):

1. Made a selection of the water
2. Added "Basic Ripples" and increase frame rate

Transferred back to Adobe ImageReady to resize the GIF

I like this...that little programme is neat isn't it?

[douglas]

Took a picture of a car
Pasted into the original
Cleaned up with the eraser
Added the ballon and comment.

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by douglas

Took a picture of a car
Pasted into the original
Cleaned up with the eraser
Added the ballon and comment.

Isn't that the truth! lol

[FotoRook]

no perfect bet this is what i got. i just cloned out the building and it's reflection along with the people and replaced them with some trees and flowers...

[giovanni.dcunha]

@ Photologyst: Thanks for the compliment!

@ Douglas: The program is very addictive!

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by giovanni.dcunha

@ Photologyst: Thanks for the compliment!

@ Douglas: The program is very addictive!

I got the impression it only works for Windows? Any chance for Macs?

[giovanni.dcunha]

@ Photologyst: SquirlzWater reflections does not have a Mac version

[megadix]

I used Gimp 2 for my editings.
1) cropped to 3410x2558 to achieve simmetry;
2) spotted some bad editing evidence on the left between 500-100 (horizontal) and 1250-1500 (vertical)... So I decided to go on, and erase myself remaining people with the Clone tool and a bit of Gaussian Blur
3) duplicated layer
4) desaturated (method: average) original layer;
5) Enhanced contrast with a gentle S curve (Colors / Curves)
6) Set 2nd layer mode to Soft light, opacity 80%
7) Layer / new from visible
8) Free-Select Tool: selected an irregular oval around picture
9) Select / Feather 400 px
10) invert selection
11) Colors / Brightness: -70
12) created artificial film grain with a grey layer and some HSV noise

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by giovanni.dcunha

@ Photologyst: SquirlzWater reflections does not have a Mac version

Looks like one would still have to do it the old fashioned way—manually.

[rosserx]

I used CS5 and made the image a background for the model. To get DOF I duplicated the background layer and made a selection 2 thirds up then switched to quick mask mode. I applied 37% Gaussian Blur to the mask. Switched back to regular mode, inversed the selection then hit delete. This will create a seamless transition. On the top background layer I applied the Lens Blur filter to achieve a medium DOF look. Then I dropped in the model and spent the rest of the evening blending and color adjusting. Oh I also added a cast shadow to the model.