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07/13/2012 03:39:35 PM · #26 |
| can someone tell me an easy way to build a triptych? I can never figure out how to get 3 shots porportional on one b/g..... |
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07/13/2012 03:49:29 PM · #27 |
never tried it before, but is what i'd do:
take your images, edit them, and then import them into one photoshop file as separate layers. make a selection, and then crop out the image you want from each layer so that each image is the same size. save each layer as a separate image. after this, bring each image back into photoshop, and add a canvas extension border to each image that will match what your dividing lines will look like. for example, if you want three images side by side, and you want two dividing lines (one separating the leftmost image from the middle image and one separating the rightmost image from the middle image), you can add a canvas extension to the right side of your left most image, and a same-sized canvas extension to the right side of your middle image. then calculate the width and height of the total image when the three will be put together, make another photoshop file with a blank background, and then slide each component into place.
this seems pretty confusing, it's probably the long way of doing it (i don't have photoshop open, just figuring out in my head how i'd accomplish it) |
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07/19/2012 12:21:06 PM · #28 |
To me, triptychs are the haiku of visual arts and I love them. I really wanted to enter this challenge but I've run out of time.
For each pic on a separate layer, in Photoshop I would create a selection of the desired size, save it, then make layer masks from the selection.
For reals, I would use Illustrator to assemble and lay out. |
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07/19/2012 12:56:27 PM · #29 |
| I created a new large canvas, 8000x6000, then proceeded to begin piecing the puzzle together. When I had the images right, I just cropped the large image, then re-sized. I applied all filters in that main canvas, and used the option to clip the filters to only the layer below, so they didn't apply to all 3 images. |
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07/19/2012 02:15:05 PM · #30 |
| I hope there are lots more entries out there just waiting to be uploaded. I didn't fare so well in the last two challenges I entered where there were only about 40 entries, despite having what I continue to consider very respectable shots that met the challenge. Any chance this one will top 60??? |
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07/19/2012 05:56:12 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by nam:
I hope there are lots more entries out there just waiting to be uploaded. I didn't fare so well in the last two challenges I entered where there were only about 40 entries, despite having what I continue to consider very respectable shots that met the challenge. Any chance this one will top 60??? |
I won't have an entry for two reasons:
1) The secret word kept getting in my way. All my ideas were going to be photos of my secret word. For example, I couldn't see how three horse related pictures were going to get by when the "secret" word was "horse."
2) Given the likelihood of a bad score due to #1, I didn't want to bother with processing three photos and building the triptych in PS.
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07/19/2012 06:02:33 PM · #32 |
| I totally understood this challenge wrong. I thought the 3 photos had to make a word like Phonograph in which you would for example take a shot of someone on the phone the letter o and a graph. Now mine is not going to be understood by anyone and I will probably not enter it. I was thinking of the challenge more like a puzzle. |
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07/19/2012 06:05:20 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by sjhuls:
I totally understood this challenge wrong. I thought the 3 photos had to make a word like Phonograph in which you would for example take a shot of someone on the phone the letter o and a graph. Now mine is not going to be understood by anyone and I will probably not enter it. I was thinking of the challenge more like a puzzle. |
Please don't stay away because of my feeble attempt to explain it. I probably got it wrong. Anyway, I like your idea better. |
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07/19/2012 06:11:19 PM · #34 |
| I still have no idea what to do and my last two entries that were rushed are getting the score they deserve, I want to do good photography but my rushing it isn't doing it. |
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07/19/2012 06:15:12 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by JiaBob:
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I won't have an entry for two reasons:
1) The secret word kept getting in my way. All my ideas were going to be photos of my secret word. For example, I couldn't see how three horse related pictures were going to get by when the "secret" word was "horse." . . .
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Well, it's probably too late for you, especially if you don't have any photos to work with or if they were indeed of horses and you feel you will have given your entry away by commenting here, but I just don't see how the "secret word" can have any effect on the voting. No one will know what it is until after the voting concludes. So if I see a triptych with three horse images and its title is "Horse", how am I to know whether the creator has a really cool alternate theme title in mind or something like "Equine". And what difference should it make? I thought the whole secret word bit was simply thrown in there in an attempt to encourage voting participation and, especially, comments. Just my opinion, of course, but I will simply be enjoying the photographs and the composites using them. And I will probably comment more than usual, too :) |
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07/19/2012 06:16:01 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by JiaBob:
Originally posted by sjhuls:
I totally understood this challenge wrong. I thought the 3 photos had to make a word like Phonograph in which you would for example take a shot of someone on the phone the letter o and a graph. Now mine is not going to be understood by anyone and I will probably not enter it. I was thinking of the challenge more like a puzzle. |
Please don't stay away because of my feeble attempt to explain it. I probably got it wrong. Anyway, I like your idea better. |
Oh, no it wasn't you I was taking to a couple people about it in a PM and realized I thought of it completely the wrong way. |
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