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aqua-puracastle In reply to aqua-puracastle [2008-01-31 00:17:14 +0000 UTC]

Are you kidding - I love this picture.

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hclay In reply to aqua-puracastle [2008-01-30 23:48:36 +0000 UTC]

ive never actually done the print thing on here...im not sure how complicated that is to set up. although to tell you the truth, i wouldnt mind if you downloaded the original and made your own print. id just be honored to know someone wanted a print of it, hahaha.

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hclay In reply to Stageleft22 [2008-01-25 07:22:05 +0000 UTC]

haha, i adore radiohead. that is exactly what i was thinking of.

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Stageleft22 In reply to hclay [2008-01-26 05:46:31 +0000 UTC]

haha wonderful XD as do i

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hclay In reply to myrnajacobs [2007-07-19 23:41:06 +0000 UTC]

i dont know what i would do without it. there would literally be three pictures in my gallery.

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hclay In reply to kalliope94041 [2007-07-15 22:52:29 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much! its all just photoshop trickery.

for this picture, i have two layers on top of the original picture, which was taken at low light with a fast (1/1600) shutter speed, so its pretty heavy on the contrast, the weeds themselves are almost completely black. i set the focus/aperature to capture the weeds and leave the background blurrier. the the layers i used are both pictures of concrete, one layered as a "color burn," and then spot adjusted with the burn and dodge tools to even out the color contrasting. this is what gives the sort of dark, heavy contrast color effect, the actual concrete layer has pretty uniform color, so most of the color coming through is burned from the scenery picture, but those dark orange colors would never really come out well on their own. then the other concrete picture i layered as a "screen" which has the effect of kind of brightening the entire field, but more importantly it will overlay the dark colors with that light grey texturing.

this is probably more information than you wanted, haha. concrete makes fantastic textures, though, if youre looking to get into texturing i highly recommend it.

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kalliope94041 In reply to hclay [2007-07-18 01:39:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the mini-lesson. I wanted to make sure I didn't lose the instructions before I answered you, so I copies them to an e-mail to myself! So. It wasn't more information than I wanted ---- Did you "create" this technique yourself? It's really pretty cool, you know

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hclay In reply to kalliope94041 [2007-07-18 02:03:54 +0000 UTC]

hmm...maybe? i certainly didnt learn it from anyone, although im sure im not the only one that uses it, either. mostly my technique consists of randomly putting textures on, trying the different overlay functions in photoshop, then putting something else on, futzing with that for a while, etc, until i like the finished product.

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kalliope94041 In reply to hclay [2007-07-18 03:57:47 +0000 UTC]

Well -- your futzing is marvelous. Futz-away some more!

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