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Re: New Presentation of an old MOC
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Date: 
Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:46:57 GMT
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I haven't seen your Viper before and I must say I really admire how compact
you made it (looks just like a real set!) while keeping all the destinctive
design elements of the ship.  Awesome work!

Oh, the photos are cool too!  The comic-book-style ones are pretty snazzy!
Very evocative!

Dave

"Douglas R. Clark" <drclark@cinenet.net> wrote in message
news:IABo6z.1Jn7@lugnet.com...
> Hello,
> 
> I have just started to dable with creating wallpapers and scenes of my • MOCs
> using photoshop.
> 
> Here are some of my initial results so far:
> 
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=112226
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/drclark1/Artwork/viper_art3.jpg>>
> 
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=112226 brickshelf folder>
> 
> The original moc photo that I used is
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=602891 here>.
> 
> I was able to sucessfully cut the viper image from the background though • it was
> very tedious.  I suppose better lighting in the original photograph would • have
> made that task a bit easier.  Assuming I improve my photography set up, is • there
> a way to get photo shop to "auto-extract" the foreground image?
> 
> When I pasted the viper image into the background I used the "blur" tool • to
> soften the edges to eliminate the cut-paste look.
> 
> Last I added the vapor trail on its own layer. using pure white paint • brush &
> air brush.  I used the smudge tool to then blend the vapor trail together.
> 
> On the other two scenes, I used the poster-edge filter which resulted in a
> comic-book-like appearence.
> 
> hope you all enjoy,
> drc



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