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01/28/2005 12:19:27 PM · #1

I want to learn how to change this image to look like a concrete hand. I want to take this and put it in another image, but I have no clue how to change this.

01/28/2005 12:21:46 PM · #2

Here is a "person to statue" tutorial:

//www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161006

I would add to this tutorial that you might want to learn about using the "Displace" filter as well as that would help "bend" any stone or concrete image you place over the hand and arm so that it follows the contours better. I'll see if I can find one of those as well.

Dave

Message edited by author 2005-01-28 12:24:08.

01/28/2005 12:26:54 PM · #3

Here is a good page with excellent large concrete texture images.

//www.mayang.com/textures/Architectural/html/Concrete/

Dave

01/28/2005 12:28:47 PM · #4

Thank you both.. I will play with this tutorial and some of those texture images.... :)

01/28/2005 12:36:10 PM · #5

Here is a quick and dirty version. You could try other textures.

Dave

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

01/28/2005 02:39:28 PM · #6

I think I got the hang of it.. how does this look?

nico_blue

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

01/28/2005 02:56:59 PM · #7

Here is my version...
Took some liberties with some of the finger :-)

01/28/2005 03:45:57 PM · #8

Originally posted by jmsetzler:

I think I got the hang of it.. how does this look?

looks good. depending on how you'll end up using the hand and arm in your image, you may need to scale the texture up or down accordingly. I like how you picked a pitted, cracking surface.

Dave

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

01/28/2005 03:51:03 PM · #9

I'm just experimenting at this point...

As I learn more, I will probably have some new ideas...

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

01/28/2005 03:57:05 PM · #10

Lokks like a Kylie & Theodor38 co-operative effort.
LOL
Interesting...

01/28/2005 05:05:30 PM · #11

I saw this thread earlier and really wanted to have a go but....

Have NO suitable facial portraits - everyone's wearing specs - way too much work. Was about to give up when I remembered my self portrait challenge entry of my boob.

Used that picture and this is what I came up with after a little play:

Warning: Nudity

I deliberately chose to keep the jewellery in it's metallic state and was aiming for a texture that suggested an ambiguity between the organic and the stone.

Would really appreciate some comments on it too, if anyone would be willing...

Message edited by author 2005-01-28 17:17:45.

01/28/2005 05:30:06 PM · #12

Originally posted by Kavey:

Would really appreciate some comments on it too, if anyone would be willing...

I thought the color looked too warm for a good stone effect. I would either desaturate to make it grayer or hue shift it towards the bluer colors (great advice from a color blind guy, eh?)

Dave

01/28/2005 05:34:30 PM · #13

Originally posted by dsa157:

Originally posted by Kavey:

Would really appreciate some comments on it too, if anyone would be willing...

I thought the color looked too warm for a good stone effect. I would either desaturate to make it grayer or hue shift it towards the bluer colors (great advice from a color blind guy, eh?)

Dave

Thanks Dave
I tried it with a completely desaturated image but... it felt TOO stoney to me... I was hoping to get something that suggested a statue that was stone and yet... still had something of the living person to it.

I'll post a more desaturated version for your thoughts...

Message edited by author 2005-01-28 17:48:53.

A more muted version... (NUDITY)

01/28/2005 05:48:22 PM · #14

Skip

Canon EOS-1D X

Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM

01/28/2005 05:51:16 PM · #15

Originally posted by Kavey:

A more muted version... (NUDITY)

kavey, as much as i like your treatment, i think your image would be over the top if you found a nice sky with puffy clouds instead of the cold concrete...

01/28/2005 05:52:22 PM · #16

He he he find me a clouds image file I can use that's big enough for the larger size and I'll have go - sounds WEIRD to me! He he he!

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

01/28/2005 06:19:57 PM · #17

A bluer one...

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

01/28/2005 06:21:12 PM · #18

Originally posted by Kavey:

He he he find me a clouds image file I can use that's big enough for the larger size and I'll have go - sounds WEIRD to me! He he he!

I have lots more not posted here : )

eggv

Canon EOS-1D Mark IIn

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/28/2005 06:22:00 PM · #19

Kavey, that photo rocks no matter what you do to it:)

01/28/2005 06:24:18 PM · #20

Originally posted by eggv:

Kavey, that photo rocks no matter what you do to it:)

Aaw, thank you! I did have it on sale as a print but, unsurprisingly, no one bought it. Would be weird for friends to have it on a wall, and any married man can't really put someone else's boob up either and generally... who in heck would want it? So I took it off sale! (Talking about the original here, not the statue version)

Message edited by author 2005-01-28 18:25:17.

01/28/2005 06:26:29 PM · #21

Originally posted by GeneralE:

I have lots more not posted here : )

Thanks! Do you have any where it's mostly blue sky with lots of smaller white clouds? So it's a more even texture? THANKS!