Originally posted by kirbic:
If you plan on submitting for "Member Challenges", there should be no problem unless you used more than one source image, though I certainly expect you did not.
If however you want to submit it to an "Open" challenge, that's a different story... can you describe the general steps to achieve the effect? |
for the progressive desturation:
1. select the part of the picture you where you wnat to keep the color.
2. inverse the selection.
3. desaturate -5
4. contract the selection by something like 0.5% to 1% of the width of your picture. (a picture that is 2000 px width, you contract the selection by 10 px)
5. Repeat step 2 and 4 again and again.
Smooth border
1. Copy your picture into a black (or white or whatever color you want) background that is bigger than you picture. (if your picture is 600x400 copy it on a backgroung that is 650x450)
2. with the magic wand, select the border.
3. expand the selection by 10 px
4. gaussian blur with a radius of 15px
5. repeat step 3
6. gaussian blur with a radius of 10px
7. repeat step 3
8. gaussian blur with a radius of 6.5px
9. repeat step 3
10. gaussian blur with a radius of 4px
11. repeat step 3
12. gaussian blur with a radius of 2.5px
13. repeat step 3
14. gaussian blur with a radius of 1.5 px
15. repeat step 3
16. gaussian blur with a radius of 1 px
17. flatten your image.
If somebody use these edit process, i could be cool to post the results of other people.
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