Sweating Gatorade?!? - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

01/17/2008 09:43:19 PM · #1

A friend of mine wanted to know if I could change this picture to black and white, leaving the gatorade orange. I can. Then she wanted to know if I could change the sweat over the black and white to orange like on a Gatorade commercial. I don't know if I can.

Any ideas to get me started? Highlight selection then color match doesn't seem to work right. Has anyone done anything like this before and can you point me in the right direction?...you don't have to hold my hand through the whole thing...just get me started.

Thanks!
-drew

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full size file is only 922kb if anyone wants to see the full pic, PM or email me.

Man_Called_Horse

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

01/17/2008 09:48:44 PM · #2

This tutorial will help your quest.Just remember to isolate the parts of the image you want with this tut.

Also, another way is to make your own sweat from scratch.

xcharrier

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

01/17/2008 09:55:37 PM · #3

Just my suggestion but I'd get your image the way you want it with the black and white. Then I'd do a new blank layer. Use the eyedropper to select the color from the gatorade bottle then zoom in on the image and paint the sweat with the brush. After that apply an overlay to the layer you just painted and adjust the opacity accordingly. I gave it a quick try on your photo and it looked like an opacity of approximately 30% looks about right. Hope that makes sense.

Strikeslip

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

01/17/2008 09:56:07 PM · #4

Just beware the Grape Gatorade Fierce. If you drink too much it'll give you neon-green poo. Been there, done that.

fischerfotographik

Nikon D40

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4.0-5.6G ED

01/17/2008 10:02:00 PM · #5

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Just beware the Grape Gatorade Fierce. If you drink too much it'll give you neon-green poo. Been there, done that.

Thanks for the overshare ;)
Good advice, yes, but the accompanying mental imagery... *narf*

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

01/17/2008 10:02:39 PM · #6

Thanks for the advice Horse and xcharrier. I am reading the tutorial now and just opened my b/w version to give painting a try.

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Just beware the Grape Gatorade Fierce. If you drink too much it'll give you neon-green poo. Been there, done that.

Yeah I heard about this when I searched here for "Gatorade"....strange....

Message edited by author 2008-01-17 22:02:56.

Quasimojo

Canon EOS-30D

01/17/2008 10:03:01 PM · #7

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Just beware the Grape Gatorade Fierce. If you drink too much it'll give you neon-green poo. Been there, done that.

Same experience here shooting in Florida... I was drinking a few litres of tropical fruit punch a day and wondering why my pee went red. That was the last time I ever drank it! Now I drink Vitamin Water when I'm there (wish they'd bring it over here).

SOrry...back on track...

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fotomann_forever

01/18/2008 01:27:39 AM · #8

I knew better than to open a Gatorade thread on DPC, I really did... :-P

But, so that I don't continue the thread jack, this is how I'd go about it also.

Originally posted by xcharrier:

CorySmith

01/18/2008 01:29:26 AM · #9

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Just beware the Grape Gatorade Fierce. If you drink too much it'll give you neon-green poo. Been there, done that.

same goes for milk.

Dirt_Diver

Nikon D3s

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

01/18/2008 08:51:53 AM · #10

I have always wanted to do something like this so I thought I would give it a try. This was done from your image so it might look a little funny.

If I had a larger image the sweat wouldn't look so small or weird.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/18/2008 01:16:36 PM · #11

I tried and tried last night, but just couldn't get the sweat to look "real"....I think I am reaching the point where I say, "Here's what I can do and that's what I can't do."

Joe's go at it turned out a lot better than mine...and I'm working with a full sized file!

-drew

Edit to add: I also searched about the internet on sweating gatorade, and have found a lot of people in the same place as me: wanting to achieve this illusion, but not being able to successfully pull it off. Maybe I need to send the file to the Gatorade people and have their guys whip through it in 90 seconds!

Message edited by author 2008-01-18 13:19:16.

leaf

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

01/18/2008 02:37:22 PM · #12

Perhaps I could do better with the full size, but here is my attemp... one problem though. Photoshop konked out on me before I could desaturate the bottom layer, but you get the point nonetheless

citymars

Nikon D700

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

01/18/2008 02:58:13 PM · #13

Lots of great help in this thread. If I can make a suggestion, I'd try to push the color towards the soft or artificial orange and away from the red. Otherwise it's a bit too bloody looking.

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

01/18/2008 06:41:55 PM · #14

Leaf and Joe,

Did you basically paint the Gatorade on in a new layer then do some layers adjusting?

I can see quite a few sweat spots and runs in the full sized original, but when I trace them in a new layer...they just look fake...I don't think I am getting the subtle differences in luminosity (light/shades) that I am wanting/expecting. My "random-ness" looks "premeditated" and "patterned"...and I think that me looking at what I just painted looks fake, because I know what I just did.

I will try more this weekend and maybe post some for C&C.

Thanks!
-drew

Dirt_Diver

Nikon D3s

01/18/2008 07:23:44 PM · #15

Drew what I did with mine was created the sweat on it's own layer. Again because I was working with such a small image it looks a little deformed. If you actually catch a shot with him sweating the transformation is very easy to do.

What I did was use the eye dropper to select the color of the G-Aid, and then create a fill layer with that color. After that I lowered the opacity just until I could see through it and then turned it into an adjustment layer. After that I painted over the entire orange fill layer and then found the sweat drips and painted the orange back in. After that just desaturated all the colors, add a layer mask and just paint the orange spots back in. I think I did my version in less than 10 minutes and that was with making the sweat. Hope that helps some.

If you want to send me a larger file I will be more than happy to try and walk you thru it.

amandalore

Canon EOS-40D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/18/2008 08:53:38 PM · #16

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I duplicated the layer twice. the first duplicated layer I applied a black to white gradient map. the second duplicated layer I applied a black to orange to white gradient map. I used layer masks to paint on the second duplicated layer to paint in the sweat and then decreased the layer opacity until it looked right. then I used a layer mask on the first layer to paint in and show the original bottle. I changed the hue/sat, contrast, sharpening on the original layer until the bottle looked right. and I have to apologize for putting sharpening on the whole thing once I merged them together because it caused some noise in the background, I should have layer masked that out and only apply sharpening to the boy.