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acidlullaby β Photomanipulation Tutorial
Published: 2008-01-05 02:26:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 160453; Favourites: 2880; Downloads: 7386
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Sorry for basically SPAMMING your devwatches in the last few weeks, I don't normally post this much but since I'm on my Christmas holidays... meeep, several people asked about my picture A Perfect Crime I thought I'd make a quick run through of the method I used.Credits:
Model: [link]
Flowers:
Feathers:
Bug:
Specs: Photoshop CS2, Wacom Intuos 2, anyone who asks me about what I used will not get a reply.
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Thank you so much for this 
Just one thing: Could you make some more tutorials of how to paint? You do it so well... *Sigh* ^_^
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check my gallery, there are a couple of painting tutorials in there
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Love it, and the spamming is great, keeps me entertained. Thanks for the tutorial. I've been following your other ones for drawing practice and they've been really helpful so thanks for all the effort
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There, I will not misjudge your skills in photo-manipulation because I'm a dork at using PS or any approaching software, I do not touch my photographs after having taken them (I'am an amateur, not a professional one but I trust my equipment and a shot is a shot, it has not to be "corrected" in any ways).
However, I will discuss here an issue I feel on the perspective field order that makes me a bit dizzy. I see an obvious perspective issue as I did not see such perspective field order in reality nor in my "clichΓ©s".
By that, I mean an object on the front can not be blurrier than any object staying behind it if the focus is pointed on the front object.
In this conditions: I see the pink and yellow flowers are in the same field as her left eye (on the right of the picture), also the hair over her left ear should be in this same field too because her noze and cheek are sharp.
Thus, why are those elements blurry in some parts? They all should be as sharp as her left eye is. The falling feather should be sharper too because it hangs on the same surface -the hair- (thus is inside the same field of perspective).
Am I making a mistake or the perspective effect is somewhat wrong? I feel like the pink flower is inside her head skull instead of staying on her hair.
Sorry if it disturbs you I feel like that, seeing your result, but my photographic eye has a problem to represent it as real or as "could be real".
A last detail, why is her right eye so sharp when it is in the rear approximately on the same distance as the right tip of the yellow flower?
To sum up, I would rather see the pink flower blurry on its right part on this picture and sharp on its left part as should be the entire yellow flower. Therefore, the two feathers and the wings should be sharp too along with the hair on her face.
Hope I did not lower you self-esteem
I'm just proposing elements to enhance the work you do already very well by introducing better field adjustments according to the persperctive reality of things.
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you're totally right, I hoped that the viewer would use their own judgement for this and not follow what I did to the last detail as it was done very fast. So yeah, hopefully whoever tries this will do it better ^_^
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holy crap good use of colors O___o lol. beautiful. thank you so much for this. lol. ive never done photo manip before but this inspired me to at least try it... it was definately fun ^^ i thank you for sharing this!!
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this is so clear n has helpful tips 
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I've been wanting to try this out for awhile now. I can use this tutorial for sure!
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Thank you so much for those awesome pointers.
Can I ask what image editing program you use?
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Err never-mind. I didn't see it in the bottom of the comment. Awesome work.
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coooL !!
am going to try it soooN !!!! -----> 
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Oh wow! Thanks for making this tutorial. It is very helpful for a newbie like me XD
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NICE! I dig the simplicity of the method. I can see how this is the best place to start for phomanip the possibilities after that are endless. Good tutorial
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I am very grateful ! Thanks so much! I'll try t soon!
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i like your finishing touch, and your model is very pretty!
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I was just about to ask how you did "A Perfect Crime." I had no idea it was this simple. Thanks for the tutorial!
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So you just.. blur? Really??
One of the things I have the most trouble with when it comes to photo manips (aside from sucking at them, I mean) is getting a cohesive feel to an image in terms of color, light, shadow and value.
Integrating elements into a manipulation takes SO MUCH damned time and patience that I usually end up giving up or just painting something already. It's frustrating. Any notions on those? I'd happily take suggestions on specific tutorials if you know of any that produce quality results. And can it still be called a manip if I paint the face rather than use the liquefy tool? Any aptitude with that tool seriously eludes me.
Lead Buwana.. I'm willing to give it another try if you're willing to point me in a worthwhile direction.
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LOL I love your icon.
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LOL, ok, I also like your signature.
That just makes me smile, man.
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I love these types of manips.. so I'm very grateful that you posted this 
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Honest, explicit, and an incredible result.
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Though admittedly this would be much harder if there weren't such a good starting point.
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Awesome! I am going to try this out with one of my photos ^_^ Very clear tips, thank you so much!
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That's fantastic. Now, I have photoshop elements 5, would any of this work on that? (I also have a Wacom touch tablet and Correl, so that helps aswell...)
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