Monday, March 16, 2009

Week Seven - Cropping and stuff

My idea was to combine two of my "lighting week" pictures. I did this because I thought it might be cool to directly compare the lighting, and all of my lighting subjects were taken from (virtually) the same angle. I went through my folder and picked which set of pictures had the closest angles.


I'm using Jasc PSP7 instead of Photoshop, so the process I used to do this is probably slightly different than the rest of the class would. I chose my pictures, then created the crescent selection and cut it from the "morning" picture. I then added two more layers behind my "morning" layer. In the furthest one I pasted the "night" version and aligned it to match with the front. In the middle layer, I altered the selection to be about 20 pixels smaller all around. After that, I inverted the selection and pasted yellow into everything but the crescent. Voila! It turned out much better than I first anticipated, mostly because I didn't know if the pictures would line up properly.

5 comments:

  1. if you would have made the moon a little bit smaller, it would have looked like a painting on the side of the building!

    good job though!

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  2. That looks pretty cool! Is JASC PSP7 the same as Photoshop or is it a different company? I've never heard of it before.

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  3. It's a completely different company, it's another high-end graphics program, but not quite as nice as Photoshop.

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  4. What a cool photo. It does look like a painting of a moon on the side of a building. Guess you could do this to see if you wanted a certain item painted before you paint it. So many uses for this.

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  5. I really like this. They are right when they say that about the moon looking like it could be a painting. Way cool :) I just love anything that has to do with the moon. The moon itself is just so big and beautiful!!

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