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In the past couple of months, I've been taking various pictures of the sky,
specifically for these pictures. Last night, after playing around with
Photoshop for a long time, I finally figured out how to put pictures of my
castle things on those backgrounds. I have a couple of airship pictures with
clouds in the background to make it look like it's flying. Here they are if
you want to take a look at 'em:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=692
Please let me know what you think.
Wilson
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In lugnet.castle, Wilson Raska writes:
> In the past couple of months, I've been taking various pictures of the sky,
> specifically for these pictures. Last night, after playing around with
> Photoshop for a long time, I finally figured out how to put pictures of my
> castle things on those backgrounds. I have a couple of airship pictures with
> clouds in the background to make it look like it's flying. Here they are if
> you want to take a look at 'em:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=692
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
>
> Wilson
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This is what the original post should look like.
In the past couple of months, I've been taking various pictures of different
backgrounds, specifically for these pictures. Last night, after playing
around with Photoshop for a long time, I finally figured out how to put
pictures of my castle things on those backgrounds. I have a couple of airship
pictures with clouds in the background to make it look like it's flying. Here
they are if you want to take a look at 'em:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=692
Please let me know what you think.
Wilson
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Hey Wilson,
Nice job with these! You got them looking pretty smooth.
I really need to get Photoshop. (I've been telling myself that for about six
months now.) My silly MGI PhotoSuite is worth what I paid for it (i.e.
nothing).
I especially like the one with Flare, and the sunset pic... they look more
relaxed and natural, less forced; the one with Gage seems a tad forced,
because it seems like there would be something behind him (what he's standing
on... the airship?)
Great job, in all!
-Shiri
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I really need to get Photoshop. (I've been telling myself that for about six
> months now.) My silly MGI PhotoSuite is worth what I paid for it (i.e.
> nothing).
Speaking of paying nothing -- Corel's PhotoPaint [1] for Linux will be a
free download Any Day Now. (Sometime this summer.) The full CorelDraw suite
will be for pay, but the Photoshop-clone component will be free.
$500 will buy an awful lot of Lego!
[1] haven't used it for years, but it was pretty good back then. From what
I've heard, it's quite competitive with photoshop these days.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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In lugnet.publish, Shiri Dori writes:
> Hey Wilson,
>
> Nice job with these! You got them looking pretty smooth.
> I really need to get Photoshop. (I've been telling myself that for about six
> months now.) My silly MGI PhotoSuite is worth what I paid for it (i.e.
> nothing).
>
> I especially like the one with Flare, and the sunset pic... they look more
> relaxed and natural, less forced; the one with Gage seems a tad forced,
> because it seems like there would be something behind him (what he's standing
> on... the airship?)
I was wondering what people would think of that one. I kind of envisioned him
on the summit of a mountain. That one was the first one I did and I thought
it'd look pretty cool, the dark clouds behind an evil guy.
> Great job, in all!
Thanks.
Wilson
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"Wilson Raska" <willy007_@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In the past couple of months, I've been taking various pictures of the sky,
> specifically for these pictures. Last night, after playing around with
> Photoshop for a long time, I finally figured out how to put pictures of my
> castle things on those backgrounds. I have a couple of airship pictures with
> clouds in the background to make it look like it's flying. Here they are if
> you want to take a look at 'em:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=692
...very nice! seamless even! so what's ur trick? :-)
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wamalug guy (http://wamalug.org)
Jain's Guide (http://wildlink.com/lego/jain)
Visit the wildlink (http://wildlink.com)
lugnet #160
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In lugnet.castle, Stephen F. Roberts writes:
> "Wilson Raska" <willy007_@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In the past couple of months, I've been taking various pictures of the sky,
> > specifically for these pictures. Last night, after playing around with
> > Photoshop for a long time, I finally figured out how to put pictures of my
> > castle things on those backgrounds. I have a couple of airship pictures with
> > clouds in the background to make it look like it's flying. Here they are if
> > you want to take a look at 'em:
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=692
>
> ...very nice! seamless even! so what's ur trick? :-)
Well, first I take the picture with a piece of bright green fabric behind it.
Then I open up the background picture and minimize it (You'll need this
later). Then I used the magic wand tool to select all the green. Then I go
to the select menu and click on Inverse, this makes it so only the LEGO is
selected. You can then open back up the background picture, and then with the
move tool in the toolbar, move the selected LEGO to the background picture.
After reading some past posts, I've learned that if you can set the tolerance
level on the magic wand to High, it will get closer to the LEGO. Since I
didn't know about that, this is what I did to touch them up:
After cropping the picture to the desired size, (for the next steps, I zoomed
in on the area I wanted to edit) go along the edges with the airbrush set at
the second smallest brush size. To get a color match to the background, use
the eyedropper tool to take a sample of the background color. Then use the
airbrush to clean it up and get rid of the green fringe.
That's all I did, even if it's not the most professional way of doing it.
Wilson
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:
> Speaking of paying nothing -- Corel's PhotoPaint [1] for Linux will be
> a free download Any Day Now.
> ...
> [1] haven't used it for years, but it was pretty good back then. From
> what I've heard, it's quite competitive with photoshop these days.
I use Corel PhotoPaint 8 (for Windows), and I'm quite happy with it. As
far as I can tell, it has all the same functions as PhotoShop. (Most, if
not all, Adobe PhotoShop plugins work with PhotoPaint too)
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht................BramL@JUNO.com
http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/
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"Wilson Raska" <willy007_@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Stephen F. Roberts writes:
> > "Wilson Raska" <willy007_@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In the past couple of months, I've been taking various pictures of the sky,
> > > specifically for these pictures. Last night, after playing around with
> > > Photoshop for a long time, I finally figured out how to put pictures of my
> > > castle things on those backgrounds. I have a couple of airship pictures with
> > > clouds in the background to make it look like it's flying. Here they are if
> > > you want to take a look at 'em:
> > >
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=692
> >
> > ...very nice! seamless even! so what's ur trick? :-)
>
> Well, first I take the picture with a piece of bright green fabric behind it.
> Then I open up the background picture and minimize it (You'll need this
> later). Then I used the magic wand tool to select all the green. Then I go
> to the select menu and click on Inverse, this makes it so only the LEGO is
> selected. You can then open back up the background picture, and then with the
> move tool in the toolbar, move the selected LEGO to the background picture.
>
> After reading some past posts, I've learned that if you can set the tolerance
> level on the magic wand to High, it will get closer to the LEGO. Since I
> didn't know about that, this is what I did to touch them up:
>
> After cropping the picture to the desired size, (for the next steps, I zoomed
> in on the area I wanted to edit) go along the edges with the airbrush set at
> the second smallest brush size. To get a color match to the background, use
> the eyedropper tool to take a sample of the background color. Then use the
> airbrush to clean it up and get rid of the green fringe.
>
> That's all I did, even if it's not the most professional way of doing it.
...Ive tried doing the same kind of thing using both green and bright orange, but it
always leavs a bit of bleed thru colour at the edges where the model meets the background
:-/ (really hideous with the orange too!). :-/ Green didn't leave the jaggies as bad, but
tended to bleed more when I had green in the model (the magic wand would go out and select
all the green in themodel too :-/
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
wamalug guy (http://wamalug.org)
Jain's Guide (http://wildlink.com/lego/jain)
Visit the wildlink (http://wildlink.com)
lugnet #160
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