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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/11/2006
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Thanks a lot, Leo!
Nick
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Leo Régnier Я£
{K:67696} 10/11/2006
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very interesting effect Nick!!!
Leo
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/5/2006
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I do remember, Andre, that you told me that. Well, maybe after all we could name it Retroshop? ;-)
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 10/5/2006
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Yes Nick,
I think I mentioned to you earlier...I will fool around with Photoshop to alter the images a lot sometimes. But mostly I use it to bring an image closer to what I remember as a good silver nitrate and paper image.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/4/2006
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Thanks a lot, Andre!
Well, I'm still learning, trying around, this and that, you know. The most interesting thing for me is to see what changes can be made and then to map those changes on camera/lens settings that would give me the same effect.
So I keep using it as an indirect teacher for better usage of the camera. :-)
Best wishes,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 10/4/2006
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Hi Nick,
I just read all the PS changes that you have been going through with this one.... Excellent! All of those changes that I made on your landscape can be made with the program you have. I'm using an old version of Photoshop v3.
The more you use it, the more you learn. :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/3/2006
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I have PS-Elements 3 (German version), so your menus may/will be different. Anyway, under the menu "Filters" you can find the menu item that I would translate as "Noise filters" or perhaps "Distortion fiters". If you drug the mouse over it, a new submenu appears, and the first menu item is what I would translate as "Luminosity interpolation".
Perhaps the attached image helps you better.
Good interpolations and best wishes
Nick
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Luminosity interpolation (?) |
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 10/3/2006
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Oh yes- that is just right! The trial and errormethod can be very useful:-)I don´t know that interpolation filter. You must tell me where to find it!
I´m glad that I was able to help a bit:-)
Best wishes,
Annemette
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/3/2006
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Oh, but wait! I found something! It was simply trial and error, so I won't claim to be a PS-expert now. Anyway, selecting the background and using the luminosity interpolation filter, I got the attached image, which seems to be a good direction for further work. It puts the swans in focus through letting the background only shine blurry.
Which tells me, that the next time I'll have a wider aperture for letting the background blur out.
Best wishes and thanks for the spark in my mind that initiated all this brainstroming!
Nick
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Blurred background |
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 10/3/2006
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Oh yes that´s much better. Still I think that the background may be too still - some more movement/noise would add something to this image I think. It´s always difficult to change an image just the right way. Thanks for sending me this. I really think it´s beautiful no matter what.
Take care,
Annemette
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/3/2006
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oh no, I forgot the manipulated image. Here it is!
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/3/2006
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Clong such big parts of an image can be real hard work, fffeeu! Here's my first try to replace the background with black. Oh well, sort of :-D
Now that you say about the duckling, oh my, it could as well have been dreaming of being Donald Duck in Disneyland! Quack! ;-)
Thanks again and take care,
Nick
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 10/3/2006
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Yes, the cloningtool would be the best to use so the dark water continues in the back. At least I think so!
Oh I forgive you for this. Would the ugly duckling ever have noticed that it was actually a beautiful swan had it been sleeping its life away?!:-))
Take care,
Annemette
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 10/3/2006
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Thank you so much for the idea, Annemette. It is my idea also, but how do I replace such a huge irregular background with something darkish? Should I use the cloning tool? (PS-newbie :-/ ) Somebody, ideas?
This has been after the awakening of the swans. Since the were awaken but still sat there and looked around, I decided to get a bit nearer, which was a mistake, since the perspective changed, and so I had that fence as a background. Had I only stood there where I was at the first try!
Thanks again, and all the apologies for waking up Denmark's national bird! ;-)
Cheers,
Nick
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Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen
{K:55244} 10/3/2006
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If I was you I´d rather remove the background with the fences and just have a darkish bachground with maybe some motion in it. That would make this dreamy photo perfect in my world:-)
Take care,
Annemette
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