We took Vince to the Exhibition (it's like the state fair) this year for the first time. There was a stand selling marvellous, handcrafted bronze animals, this magnificent elephant was standing out front. Vince was delighted to pose with it and I got some lovely shots.
There's a lot of techniques in this photo. I always color balance and sharpen my images now. Then I placed the overlay from the kit to distress the background photo. I used the pen tool draw a path around Vince and the elephant and then cut them out of the background by converting the path to a selection. To make the edges softer, I selected Vince and the elephant by ctrl-clicking, I then switched to quick mask and applied a gaussian blur of 4.5. I switched out of quick mask and then cut to a new layer. It just makes the edges of the cutout softer. Lastly, I applied a warming filter and unchecked the preserve luminosity option to smooth out some of the saturation the photo had from being taken in bright sunlight.
On the word art, I reduced the layer opacity to 50% and set the blending mode to mulitply.
Does this project or one of it's images contain pornography, profanity, or other illegal or offensive material? If so, please report it and our moderators will come by and clean it up in a flash.
September 25, 2005
August 16, 2005
August 16, 2005