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"Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote: [Image] How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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"Jim Carlock" wrote: "Omelet" asked... : How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? : That is so cool. :-) Wait for Barbara's answer. I'm just posting the same flower with a different background. Photo editing software makes changing the background pretty easy. I don't have a tool that grabs the commentary from the original and places it into the new picture. The editor used to make the new picture here does not keep the comments inside the picture and does not provide a way to put the commentary into it. It's older software made by Microsoft. I need an editor that will keep the comments. I bet Barbara's software handles such comments without having to use another tool. Perhaps she can knows of such a tool and can help out in that way. Nice. :-) With the white background, that makes it easy to pick it out and place it on a new background using a transparency. That, I can do with photoshop. It's just that I can't get an initial white or solid background without doing a lot of patient erasing to start with in many cases. Here is a good example. The original background from this critter was similar in color to the subject so it had to be erased by hand before I could use it; I could not do it by color. He was then used later in a couple of re-worked backgrounds as the black could all be erased with a simple color choice and a giant brush. -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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Omelet wrote:
How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. |
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Jim Carlock wrote:
Wait for Barbara's answer. I'm just posting the same flower with a different background. Photo editing software makes changing the background pretty easy. I don't have a tool that grabs the commentary from the original and places it into the new picture. The editor used to make the new picture here does not keep the comments inside the picture and does not provide a way to put the commentary into it. It's older software made by Microsoft. I need an editor that will keep the comments. I bet Barbara's software handles such comments without having to use another tool. Perhaps she can knows of such a tool and can help out in that way. That's rather clever, I'm afraid I cannot do photo shop (or in my case PaintShop Pro) I use walls or place flowers on a white table or use some other backdrop. |
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Marutchi wrote:
Omelet wrote: How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. Isn't it funny how people sometimes think that a picture is done in some complex manner? BTW, my two cents on this if you DO need to backdrop a flower while taking a picture. Pick yourself up a sheet of foam core at Wal*Mart and use it. Just set it back away from the subject a bit. VERY light and easy to work with. A scrap of wall paper mounted to cardboard would also work for a small subject backdrop. So long as you don't go nuts with the choice of wall paper this can be cool. All else fails, use a pillow case over a couple of stakes to support it. Just some ideas for those feeling creative.. BTW, whiting out a background in Photoshop is a long and tiring process to do it good. Save yourself the trouble and backdrop.. Then play in PS.. ;) |
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"Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote: Omelet wrote: How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. Ooooh! Hi tech! :-) |
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Dave Moorman wrote:
In article , "Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote: Omelet wrote: How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. Ooooh! Hi tech! :-) LOL, I'm a real low-tech girl. :-) |
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:09:09 +1000, "Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE
wrote: Dave Moorman wrote: In article , "Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote: Omelet wrote: How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. Ooooh! Hi tech! :-) LOL, I'm a real low-tech girl. :-) Yeah, I was going to say that but only because you said it was the low part of your house. LOL |
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"Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote: Omelet wrote: How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. Sure looks great! Thanks. -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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Scott Hildenbrand wrote: Marutchi wrote: Omelet wrote: How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. Isn't it funny how people sometimes think that a picture is done in some complex manner? BTW, my two cents on this if you DO need to backdrop a flower while taking a picture. Pick yourself up a sheet of foam core at Wal*Mart and use it. Just set it back away from the subject a bit. VERY light and easy to work with. A scrap of wall paper mounted to cardboard would also work for a small subject backdrop. So long as you don't go nuts with the choice of wall paper this can be cool. All else fails, use a pillow case over a couple of stakes to support it. Just some ideas for those feeling creative.. BTW, whiting out a background in Photoshop is a long and tiring process to do it good. Save yourself the trouble and backdrop.. Then play in PS.. ;) lol Totally agreed! -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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"Jim Carlock" wrote: Anyways, PhotoDraw provides some great tools for erasing colors. I typically select a square drawing tool and highlight large areas, making sure the fill all gets a white or black or perhaps some other fill if needed. Then I can do a 'local erase' meaning it does not erase ALL of that color, but only contiguous areas of that color. So it works well, but it's not perfect. In fact, it can be a slight pain at times, as you mention. I probably should go to work for a software store to learn once again about all the software that's available. What software did you say you used? I've tried the GIMP software and it does have some interesting things, but it seems to lack quality erasure tools, smudging brushes. And everytime I try to use it it doesn't work any longer. A royal pain that requires re-installing. Go figure. -- Jim Carlock I drive a Mac and use Adobe Photoshop CS. It's a fairly recent updated program and I've also added a couple of sets of "aftermarket" special effects software filters, one from "Alien skin" and another set from "Plugin Galaxy" for it that have been a lot of fun for digital "painting" and photo tweaking. Adobe CS by itself has excellent erasing tools as well as the "cloning" tool (that I use a LOT) for patching flaws. If needed, you can zoom in and erase on a pixel to pixel basis after transferring the pic onto a "transparent" background that is then stored as a pdf file. Handiest for importing subjects and using some of the better special effects filters such as adding smoke, flame and shadows. It's a very complex program and even after over 10 years of using it, I still don't know all it's ins, outs and complexities. :-) Careful use of the smudge tool is handy after using the cloning tool. I've made patches that you cannot even hardly tell. Here is a good example of a lovely pic a friend sent me. Originally, there was a human buddy of his standing right in the middle of it. You cannot really tell that it's been clone erased except for one fern plant that is obviously cloned. I'll fix it later. g -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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joevan wrote:
Yeah, I was going to say that but only because you said it was the low part of your house. LOL LOL |
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As for me; I'm hi-tech enough to grab pics. & re-arrange them {don't own
a camera} "Omelet" wrote in message ... In article , "Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote: Omelet wrote: How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. Sure looks great! Thanks. -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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"MPM" wrote in message ... As for me; I'm hi-tech enough to grab pics. & re-arrange them {don't own a camera} "Omelet" wrote in message ... In article , "Marutchi" BarbaraH*REMOVE wrote: Omelet wrote: How are you getting those matte white backgrounds? That is so cool. :-) It's a wall in the background, the lower part of our house. Sure looks great! Thanks. -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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wrote: As for me; I'm hi-tech enough to grab pics. & re-arrange them {don't own a camera} I only invested in one (a camera) about 3 years ago. It was worth it. :-) Have you checked out Mirror filters yet? Plugin Galaxy has an excellent one. -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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In article , "MPM" wrote: As for me; I'm hi-tech enough to grab pics. & re-arrange them {don't own a camera} I only invested in one (a camera) about 3 years ago. It was worth it. :-) Have you checked out Mirror filters yet? Plugin Galaxy has an excellent one. I've owned several digital.. The last one I got was an investment in quality and I must say it's the best dang thing I've ever got. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT / 350D Sigma 28-70mm F2.8-4.0 Lens Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro D Lens 4 GIG Micro drive Best $1,600 I spent and use it dang near daily. As for PS and plugins.. I dislike over usage of plugins so stay away from them. Know some years ago lens flair was HUGE and everyone used it.. Almost as annoying as emboss. The BEST use of Photoshop is that in which you can't tell that it's been used at all. |
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Scott Hildenbrand wrote: Omelet wrote: In article , "MPM" wrote: As for me; I'm hi-tech enough to grab pics. & re-arrange them {don't own a camera} I only invested in one (a camera) about 3 years ago. It was worth it. :-) Have you checked out Mirror filters yet? Plugin Galaxy has an excellent one. I've owned several digital.. The last one I got was an investment in quality and I must say it's the best dang thing I've ever got. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT / 350D Sigma 28-70mm F2.8-4.0 Lens Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro D Lens 4 GIG Micro drive Best $1,600 I spent and use it dang near daily. As for PS and plugins.. I dislike over usage of plugins so stay away from them. Know some years ago lens flair was HUGE and everyone used it.. Almost as annoying as emboss. The BEST use of Photoshop is that in which you can't tell that it's been used at all. No arguments there. :-) Did you see that rain forest photo I posted? -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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Omelet wrote:
In article , Scott Hildenbrand wrote: Omelet wrote: In article , "MPM" wrote: As for me; I'm hi-tech enough to grab pics. & re-arrange them {don't own a camera} I only invested in one (a camera) about 3 years ago. It was worth it. :-) Have you checked out Mirror filters yet? Plugin Galaxy has an excellent one. I've owned several digital.. The last one I got was an investment in quality and I must say it's the best dang thing I've ever got. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT / 350D Sigma 28-70mm F2.8-4.0 Lens Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro D Lens 4 GIG Micro drive Best $1,600 I spent and use it dang near daily. As for PS and plugins.. I dislike over usage of plugins so stay away from them. Know some years ago lens flair was HUGE and everyone used it.. Almost as annoying as emboss. The BEST use of Photoshop is that in which you can't tell that it's been used at all. No arguments there. :-) Did you see that rain forest photo I posted? Nope.. Just subbed to the group last month. Or I miss it? Thread title? At any rate, love the camera.. Do have a Mavica CD1000 which was fun for a non SLR but writing to the CDs in camera got old, slow.. Also have a Kodak DC 110 which I love the outdoor shots with it.. Just sucks batteries like a leach. |
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Scott Hildenbrand wrote: The BEST use of Photoshop is that in which you can't tell that it's been used at all. No arguments there. :-) Did you see that rain forest photo I posted? Nope.. Just subbed to the group last month. Or I miss it? Thread title? This thread, more or less. :-) I just posted it yesterday morning. I could re-post it but don't want to annoy the group! At any rate, love the camera.. Do have a Mavica CD1000 which was fun for a non SLR but writing to the CDs in camera got old, slow.. Also have a Kodak DC 110 which I love the outdoor shots with it.. Just sucks batteries like a leach. lol I know that feeling! -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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Omelet wrote:
In article , Scott Hildenbrand wrote: The BEST use of Photoshop is that in which you can't tell that it's been used at all. No arguments there. :-) Did you see that rain forest photo I posted? Nope.. Just subbed to the group last month. Or I miss it? Thread title? This thread, more or less. :-) I just posted it yesterday morning. I could re-post it but don't want to annoy the group! At any rate, love the camera.. Do have a Mavica CD1000 which was fun for a non SLR but writing to the CDs in camera got old, slow.. Also have a Kodak DC 110 which I love the outdoor shots with it.. Just sucks batteries like a leach. lol I know that feeling! Oooohh.. Yeah, I saw it.. 1/2 way down and 2/3 to the right there is a spot beside the tree that was not smudged after the clone brush was used... ;) Nice work though and good example.. Should post the 'before' of it as an example of the true power of Photoshop. Reminds me of the inhuman models anymore.. http://youtube.com/watch?v=aHLpRxAmCrw http://youtube.com/watch?v=UkdXoGEUVRk And one of my fave.. http://youtube.com/watch?v=pcFlxSlOKNI ;) |
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Scott Hildenbrand wrote: Omelet wrote: In article , Scott Hildenbrand wrote: The BEST use of Photoshop is that in which you can't tell that it's been used at all. No arguments there. :-) Did you see that rain forest photo I posted? Nope.. Just subbed to the group last month. Or I miss it? Thread title? This thread, more or less. :-) I just posted it yesterday morning. I could re-post it but don't want to annoy the group! At any rate, love the camera.. Do have a Mavica CD1000 which was fun for a non SLR but writing to the CDs in camera got old, slow.. Also have a Kodak DC 110 which I love the outdoor shots with it.. Just sucks batteries like a leach. lol I know that feeling! Oooohh.. Yeah, I saw it.. 1/2 way down and 2/3 to the right there is a spot beside the tree that was not smudged after the clone brush was used... ;) g Nice work though and good example.. Thank you! Should post the 'before' of it as an example of the true power of Photoshop. Yes, but see, that one was done early on when I was first learning about the cloning tool. For some silly reason, I did not keep the original. I'll have to ask Mike for it when he gets back on line. (He's in the middle of moving right now). Fortunately, I kept his original file name as I know he has thousands of pics on file. Some of my favorite bald eagle and Canadian white tail pics have come from him. Reminds me of the inhuman models anymore.. http://youtube.com/watch?v=aHLpRxAmCrw http://youtube.com/watch?v=UkdXoGEUVRk And one of my fave.. http://youtube.com/watch?v=pcFlxSlOKNI ;) Very cool! I really ought to sit down and take a good tutorial one of these days. I saw some tools used in those that I'm _totally_ unfamiliar with! Photoshop is an amazing program... I've not done a lot of face re-touches. I've mostly used it for fantasy art. -- Peace, Om Remove both _ (underscores) to validate gmail e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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