I bought a magazine that had a photoshop training cd and only took me a few minutes to learn what I call the flip
here are the before and after pics before after just thought i'd share... also wanted to share this image too ( i took her husband out of the pic lol)
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got it in Digital Photography at your news stands now!
has a cd with cover platered right on the front..sorta hard to hear so you gotta turn your speakers way up
I am sorry, but the second one looks really fake. The colour on it is great and all, but the reflection would never look like that in reality.
You could put the relfection on a separate layer and adjust the opacity over the original water and erase portions of the edges to make it look like it actually belongs there.
Just a suggestion.
If you'd like I could take your image and show you how.
Still not great I know.. The problem is increasing the opacity of the reflection means the water becomes less textured, making it look more fake, so it's a fine line.
Please PM me and I'll remove the image on your request.
that "trick has it's place, but not in that photo. The pic was better off without the PS. The details in the waves and the stump or whatever is in the lake look much more natural.
Also, if you carefully observe natural reflections in nature, you will discover that very rarely you can see the entire top part reflected right from the top edge to the bottom edge. Many times (depending on a viewpoint) you will see the relfection starts actually 1/3 into the reflected surface. I hope this makes sense. I will try to find an example.
This kind of "help" is present at Photocritique.net too and I like it. Anything I ever post, people should feel free to do their own version and put it up somewhere to show me. I think it helps me learn.
:)
As for the pictures - I like the trick, but I'm not even going to attempt it on this photo.
OK, I couldn't resist the practice...
Here is my effort.
I used a displacement map, as well as several layers with gradients and layer masks.
By the way, I believe this is Maroon Bells in Colorado (near Aspen).
//www.pbase.com/image/20158990
This is a great exercise in showing how we have very different ideas of what reality looks like. My favorite version was from smellyfish1002 but each one is interesting.
well.. this is becoming a kind of photoshop skill context, isn't it?
Actually a skill (like the photoshop one) in order to be tested should consider also "the time to deliver".
I mean.. given enough time, everything becomes possible and pitzaman is once again right:
if it is too much time expensive then it may well not be worthwhile considering.
That's why I provide also the time I spent doing this: approx. 30 mins.
Also to have an alibi for whoever can see some of the many imperfections here and there. ;)
wow!! i thought this thread died long ago until I saw all the tries at it...
love them all, I never mind if anyone uses the pics I post to learn.
Thanks, you guys are awesome.
