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02/18/2008 03:07:53 PM · #1 |
I have a very special friend and she has sent me a photo of her son doing the skateboard thing. I wanted to do some editing on it and print it for her but I am so stuck on what to do and where to start. (The background scares me abit)
Any Ideas
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//www.flickr.com/photos/23602848@N06/2274542693/ |
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02/18/2008 03:16:15 PM · #2 |
It says I don't have permission to look at that page.
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02/18/2008 03:26:17 PM · #3 |
| Same here. You apparently have to be a flickr member to view that page. I'm not. |
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02/18/2008 03:33:54 PM · #4 |
| Nope. I'm a member, and I don't have permission either. Seems you need to set it as public in flickr. |
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02/18/2008 03:34:50 PM · #5 |
| I AM a flickr member and don't have permission... |
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02/18/2008 11:07:33 PM · #6 |
sorry about that. Im new to this flickr thing.
It should work now
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02/18/2008 11:15:23 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by kingsley:
I have a very special friend and she has sent me a photo of her son doing the skateboard thing. I wanted to do some editing on it and print it for her but I am so stuck on what to do and where to start. (The background scares me abit)
Any Ideas
Peta
//www.flickr.com/photos/23602848@N06/2274542693/ |
The first thing I would do would be to select the skateboarder, invert the selection then apply some sort of blurring effect, probably lens blur. As it is, too much is in focus.
The selection part is the hard part but you should be able to use quick mask to help you. I think there's a tutorial on this site on making selections. |
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02/19/2008 02:02:37 AM · #8 |
Here is how I was able to salvage some detail out of this shot ...
[thumb]648606[/thumb]
Three HEAVY doses of shadow/highlight, some adjustment in levels, curves and a touch of extra contrast, a touch of USM and crop and resize.
I am sure it would look better if done on not such a small low res sample. I also agree that some background blurring would be a big benefit.
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02/19/2008 04:21:20 AM · #9 |
Take  add this 
and voila!
Basically took my background image, did some basic levels and gradient blur plus a bit of film grain to give it that lesser-than-it-was depth of field, then selected the skateboarder, copied, pasted it over mine and the carefully erased back to clean us edges then erased back the shadow at 20% strength to blend it lightly over the ground.
Gotta make it exciting right? |
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