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09/02/2004 05:13:18 PM · #1 |
There's a tutorial online about processing photos to make them look like they were taken during at night. I really liked the idea and decided to give it a try myself. It didn't take too long, except for aligning the damn flares. Anyway, I just want your opinion on the final product. Look at the night version first and then the day version and tell me what you think.
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June
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09/02/2004 05:16:50 PM · #2 |
i think it looks cool. u have a link to this process?
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09/02/2004 05:17:19 PM · #3 |
post the tutorial if you would...
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09/02/2004 05:20:09 PM · #4 |
They are mighty different : )
This looks a lot different than the technique usually used in movies, which some people were discussing a few days ago. As dark as this is, it could easly be made to look (more) like a painting as well ...
Maybe you can post a link to the tutorial so we can see how you did it. |
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09/02/2004 05:30:53 PM · #5 |
It doesn't look like a natural night scene to me - i.e. it doesn't look like a straight, unprocessed image actually taken at night. However it does look like an artist's impression of a scene at night - kind of how night is drawn for backdrops in children's films or for stage productions.
It's cool!
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09/02/2004 05:33:18 PM · #6 |
I kinda wanted to keep it a secret  , but here it is, Working On Our Night Moves.
Have fun!
June
BTW, I did the stars a different way than the tutorial, I used the pencil tool instead.
Message edited by author 2004-09-02 17:34:18.
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09/02/2004 11:53:27 PM · #7 |
Great transformation... The only thing that made the Night version stand out as unnatural, to me, was the way that large cloud on the right turned out. There was something 'off' about it that I still can't put my finger on...
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09/03/2004 12:04:40 AM · #8 |
| Cool! Thanks for the post! |
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09/03/2004 01:38:35 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
They are mighty different : )
This looks a lot different than the technique usually used in movies, which some people were discussing a few days ago. As dark as this is, it could easly be made to look (more) like a painting as well ...
Maybe you can post a link to the tutorial so we can see how you did it. |
Where was the movie technique being discussed? I'm curious about it. |
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09/03/2004 01:44:56 AM · #10 |
There was some discussion in this thread; I thought there was more, but this was all I could find right now.
Personally, I'd first try using a combination of Curves and maybe Duotone mode with a nice blue (Process Cyan will work) ... I'll have to find an example. |
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09/03/2004 10:53:42 AM · #11 |
So, anybody gonna post their results? I'd like to see what others come up with!
June
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09/03/2004 12:22:59 PM · #12 |
Does this look any better? Just a levels adjustment in PS.
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09/03/2004 12:30:59 PM · #13 |
| I does look different, I'm not good enough to tell if it's any better. That cloud's bufuddling me still. And I still don't know why. They're great shots, though. |
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09/03/2004 12:47:49 PM · #14 |
A suggestion for those who want to try this out: In step 1, instead of duplicating the background layer and manipulating it, create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. There is no need for Remove Color as checking the Colorize box does this automatically. The advantage of using an adjustment layer is that you can more easily tweak it to get just the effect you want.
I didn't have much luck getting the lens flare placed just right. I guess I need to play with it more. Even more importantly, I need to find a suitable source image...
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09/03/2004 12:48:17 PM · #15 |
I think if you're going for a neat, surrealistic effect then more power to you...but as for actually looking like a night shot, it just doesn't.
But I do think it's neat. |
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09/03/2004 12:50:32 PM · #16 |
Nighttime:
Original:
Interesting tutorial. Only problem I had was trying to finetune where the lens flare is on the picture. Took a bunch of render, undo, move point a little, render, undo, etc... Showed it to my wife, and she couldn't believe it.
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09/03/2004 12:56:13 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by computerking:
I does look different, I'm not good enough to tell if it's any better. That cloud's bufuddling me still. And I still don't know why. They're great shots, though. |
I don't think clouds are usually so light at night. More silhouetted against the starry sky as I recall. |
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09/03/2004 12:57:58 PM · #18 |
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Nighttime:
Neat technique.
/Andrew
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09/03/2004 12:59:28 PM · #19 |
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09/03/2004 01:09:59 PM · #20 |
KhaOS good photo, just watch it with the shadows, because they don't appear at night, at least not that strongly. I do like the various intensities of your stars though.
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09/03/2004 01:39:20 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by skief:
KhaOS good photo, just watch it with the shadows, because they don't appear at night, at least not that strongly. I do like the various intensities of your stars though. |
Thanks... I rendered some noise, blurred it, adjusted contrast, then used threshold to generate different-sized dots... masked them out so they didn't appear over clouds, then did a gaussian blur to smooth them a bit... I then duplicated the star layer twice, applying a vertical gaussian blur on one, horizontal on the other, and adding the layers together.
As for the shadows, I've seen remarkably contrasty shadows at night on a full moon (which, coincidentally, was around last weekend), but you're right, they seem a little pronounced.
/Andrew
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09/03/2004 05:44:21 PM · #22 |
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Night Newt
Just used two tone curves (one RGB, one Blue/Yellow channel) and added the moon from a photo yesterday. |
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09/04/2004 02:18:47 AM · #23 |
Nice job guys! As for shadows, they do happen at night, after all, not just the sun renders shadows, street lights do to. I'm gonna keep working on this technique, I think it's really neat.
June
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