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12/12/2003 05:40:32 PM · #1 |
I took this photo last year or the year before. It has always been a favorite photo of mine.
Share your favorite Winter Wonderland photos... This year in Wisconsin we haven't gotten any snow to speak of!
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12/12/2003 06:26:20 PM · #2 |
Beauty Renee!
Here is one I took on Dec. 6th at Clinton Square, Syracuse NY.
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12/14/2003 04:57:13 PM · #3 |
In Photoshop 5, I first selected the entire image, then used the Edit>Transform>Perspective tool. This gives you handles like the crop or scale tool, but is not contrained to a rectangle. I dragged the bottom handles directly sideways until the two main posts appeared parallel (109.4% of the original width). I then cropped the excess background this steps created. Unfortunately, I then noticed it needed about a 1 degree rotation; I try to always combine the crop and rotate steps by rotating the crop rectangle. Because this created more unwanted background, I just added a thick stroke in a contrasting color (not the one I'd recommend, but one you can see!) instead of cropping further.
(Tick ... tick ... tick ...)
OK, that border looked pretty bad (I'm leaving it on the thumbnail so you can see) so I've selected the border with the magic wand, feathered the selection 8 pixels two times, then filled the resultant selection with white to create (what I hope is) a frosty effect, and then added a couple of pixels of black around the outside to make it show up on a white display page.
I've also been a little sloppy today, and have been re-saving the image in JPEG instead of Photoshop or TIFF format, so I'm sorry if the image quality has gone down a bit.
I've also posted this same note in the photo comments ....
Message edited by author 2003-12-14 17:51:01. |
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12/16/2003 10:46:06 AM · #4 |
Thanks GeneralE for your time and effort to teach me this! I appreciate it...
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12/16/2003 11:57:31 AM · #5 |
picnic table where i usually read the daily paper in warmer weather. |
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12/16/2003 12:20:08 PM · #6 |
snow drifts in the yard from the storm last weekend
was going to use it for the water challenge - but didn't think it would go over too well - with the new rules and all.
however its isn't over editied actually - but abstract off the camera.
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12/16/2003 12:26:39 PM · #7 |
disregard
Message edited by author 2003-12-18 22:02:21. |
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12/16/2003 01:50:16 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Everyday Renee:
Thanks GeneralE for your time and effort to teach me this! I appreciate it... |
You're more than welcome! I just hope you're able to do this with Elements. If not and you're on a PC, try the open-source editing program The GIMP, which I'm pretty sure has the Perspective tool and can read a Photoshop file. |
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12/18/2003 08:08:29 PM · #9 |
GeneralE -- I was able to replicate it in Elements. I need to spend the time to work with it. I am not great at seeing perspective distortion though I have started playing around with it. In time, I will develop a feel.
Carrieann -- I think your house with the snow is neat! It was fun to look at it! I love the animation. Can I ask which tool you used? Is it a .gif file? Or is it flash?
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12/18/2003 08:16:45 PM · #10 |
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12/18/2003 09:41:03 PM · #11 |
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12/18/2003 10:51:28 PM · #12 |
got this one today
during a snowfall
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12/19/2003 12:45:48 AM · #13 |
One from last winter
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12/19/2003 11:46:56 AM · #14 |
Last year in New Hampshire, trying to send my-son-the-marine back to base was a nightmare. |
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12/20/2003 04:09:36 AM · #15 |
Got this recently from Syracuse University
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12/20/2003 09:48:30 AM · #16 |
This is my Ottawa winter sunrise. :-)
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