Couple of Pictures

[Kurtblythman]

Thought id share a few. Only had my D40x a month or two and its my first SLR.








These are old pictures with a digi camera

[andyps]

Some great pictures there. Please help me though, I can't figure how to get the spot colours on the greyscale pictures. I have photoshop CS2 and all the Canon software but not knowing what it is called in photoshop I don't know what to look for in the help index. So go on, how do you do it?

[richo_i]

andyps said:

Some great pictures there. Please help me though, I can't figure how to get the spot colours on the greyscale pictures. I have photoshop CS2 and all the Canon software but not knowing what it is called in photoshop I don't know what to look for in the help index. So go on, how do you do it?

This will show you how all tho it is a cs3 tut the process is the same http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSyNywctdUk

[andyps]

Great, thanks. Will have a play tomorrow.

[Kurtblythman]

For a couple of my pictures, the escort rally one and the one where im wheeling me scooter i just did a replace colour and selected the greeness of the grass and desaturated it.

[Kurtblythman]

Well this thread was discarded pretty quickly.

[PurelyRetro]

Kurtblythman said:

I'll have one of the Aston Martin Vantage as a background desktop please - 1024 X 798

Edited by PurelyRetro on Tuesday 6th May 20:10

[Kurtblythman]

PurelyRetro said:

Kurtblythman said:

I'll have one of the Aston Martin Vantage as a background desktop please - 1024 X 798

Edited by PurelyRetro on Tuesday 6th May 20:10

You've lost me?
I dont see how you can have a portrate picture as a background?

[andyps]

Thanks for the link for instruction on doing spot colour, just had a play around and got this:



Sorry for the thread hijack

Edited by andyps on Tuesday 6th May 22:57

[tim-b]

nice pics but a bit heavy on the ps. am i the only one here who thinks the selective colour thing looks awful? it may have worked in schindlers list, but whenever i see it i can only think that the 'artist' has just read a tutorial and has to show everyone his new found skills... only one step away from fake lens flare, be careful! not very creative or original imho, sorry.

to end on a positve note, a better way to do this is to use a masked hue/saturation/brightness layer (or set a white filled layer to 'colour' and mask it). that way you catch all the colours, not leaving any traces in the background and not desaturating any part of the subject.

[andyps]

tim-b said:

nice pics but a bit heavy on the ps. am i the only one here who thinks the selective colour thing looks awful? it may have worked in schindlers list, but whenever i see it i can only think that the 'artist' has just read a tutorial and has to show everyone his new found skills... only one step away from fake lens flare, be careful! not very creative or original imho, sorry.

to end on a positve note, a better way to do this is to use a masked hue/saturation/brightness layer (or set a white filled layer to 'colour' and mask it). that way you catch all the colours, not leaving any traces in the background and not desaturating any part of the subject.

I know what you mean about the spot colour, I think it can be good in some circumstances, and I don't think the picture I have used is right - it was one I took this evening which I thought worth playing with for the technique more than the result. I think the Aston picture looks good though - right subject colour and background for spot colour.

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Spot colour is something everyone should learn how to do, then never ever use it again . If you're trying to make something in the picture the focus of attention, that should be possible without it.

[pmcuksnapper]

1. 1 of the bicycle - WOW!!!

an incredible shot. Although i can't help but feel it should be 0.5 - 1 degree clockwise rotated.

[Scho]

tim-b said:

am i the only one here who thinks the selective colour thing looks awful?

nope.

the correct term for selective colouring is 'cheddarisation'

[andyps]

Where was the picture of the bike taken?

[Kurtblythman]

andyps said:

Where was the picture of the bike taken?

Dubai.

[sublimatica]

I learnt of the HDR process recently and have applied it to some of my photos with success. Did you use that for the photo of the bicycle and the moped, Kurt?

If so, did you take several exposures of the scene to feed into the HDR processor?

If not, how did you achieve the effect you've used for the photo of the bicycle?

I really like that shot. Interesting subject and stylish processing.

[stigmundfreud]

really like the pushbike and the mgf under the crain! How did you get into the docks?!?

[Kurtblythman]

sublimatica said:

I learnt of the HDR process recently and have applied it to some of my photos with success. Did you use that for the photo of the bicycle and the moped, Kurt?

If so, did you take several exposures of the scene to feed into the HDR processor?

If not, how did you achieve the effect you've used for the photo of the bicycle?

I really like that shot. Interesting subject and stylish processing.

Nope. I havent ventured into HDR, im only 15 so this is my first SLR and im no expert at photography so its something to ad to my 'to do' list. The effect was actually made by using Shadow and Highlight in Adobe Photoshop CS2. Give it a try.

stigmundfreud said:

really like the pushbike and the mgf under the crain! How did you get into the docks?!?

Well actually that is the Transporter bridge in Middlesbrough. It was closed for the day because there where people bungie jumping off it.

[havoc]

pmcuksnapper said:

#1 of the bicycle - WOW!!!

an incredible shot. Although i can't help but feel it should be 0.5 - 1 degree clockwise rotated.

to both. Pick of the bunch.