Photoshop Magic or just hard work?
Hello from Jacksonville, Florida---still beautiful, if crisp here. Jaguars had a really exciting game
on Sunday and came out the winner in the last 10 seconds. Whew!
Here's the latest photography project I've been working on. A friend and her three dogs.......seems simple enough at first glance. But she also has another dog and three cats. I went back a second time to shoot all the animals again. She likes the dogs better if they're not panting. But I think they look like they're having fun---they did just enjoy a wild, joyful (though brief) romp around the park.
So my mission has become combining all the different pictures taken in different parts of the front
yard, back yard, park, pool in the house and under the bed into a nice Christmas card.
The cat in the basket was the easiest. The one in the ferns NOT easy. The first cat is a default.
There was a really cute one, but the bright spots of speckled sunlight wouldn't work on the sofa.
This cat was hard because of all the little hairs sticking out.
I roughed that all in and show it to Madame X. Then she wanted me to change her head, and show more of the painting behind the sofa. I assumed (wrongly) that she wanted to do the usual, inexpensive Christmas card 4x6's that end up as 4x8 prints with a message. So, I had been cropping to that end. Nope, it's a 5x7 folded card she wants. Like a real greeting card.
I think that means that Madame X likes it enough to want to send it out with a personal note, so that's good. Now I need to change the dimensions. Why different crops show different parts of the photo and how they were arrived at the sizes of 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 11x14 makes no sense to me. But adding more of the painting behind the sofa works well for that. Just have to take it from ANOTHER shot.
Now a new problem. Head is at a different angle so I have to erase the one below it. The painting is a different size, I'm inserting it lower and now a cat & a dog have disappeared. So I have to erase & get them back, change the density, brightness, color etc, etc, etc for many an hour at the computer.
Were there other issues? In word: yes. Will we mention them? In a word: No.
HERE IS THE FINAL PRODUCT!!!! (And don't tell me it looks fake. In person it look great.
You just think you could tell because you know all the secrets.) I had total of 12 layers at one time
while I was moving parts of six very different images onto the seventh.
PHOTO TIP: Make sure you have all the expectations, rates & sizes spelled out on when you
begin a project with your clients. I was originally doing the card as a bonus to the sitting.
Then it became a major photo editing project. Work smarter.
BLESSINGS!
See more images
Contact me to ask a question, purchase an image, take a class or hire me for a project:
artisticimagesbypc@me.com
on Sunday and came out the winner in the last 10 seconds. Whew!
Here's the latest photography project I've been working on. A friend and her three dogs.......seems simple enough at first glance. But she also has another dog and three cats. I went back a second time to shoot all the animals again. She likes the dogs better if they're not panting. But I think they look like they're having fun---they did just enjoy a wild, joyful (though brief) romp around the park.
So my mission has become combining all the different pictures taken in different parts of the front
yard, back yard, park, pool in the house and under the bed into a nice Christmas card.
The cat in the basket was the easiest. The one in the ferns NOT easy. The first cat is a default.
There was a really cute one, but the bright spots of speckled sunlight wouldn't work on the sofa.
This cat was hard because of all the little hairs sticking out.
I roughed that all in and show it to Madame X. Then she wanted me to change her head, and show more of the painting behind the sofa. I assumed (wrongly) that she wanted to do the usual, inexpensive Christmas card 4x6's that end up as 4x8 prints with a message. So, I had been cropping to that end. Nope, it's a 5x7 folded card she wants. Like a real greeting card.
I think that means that Madame X likes it enough to want to send it out with a personal note, so that's good. Now I need to change the dimensions. Why different crops show different parts of the photo and how they were arrived at the sizes of 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 11x14 makes no sense to me. But adding more of the painting behind the sofa works well for that. Just have to take it from ANOTHER shot.
Now a new problem. Head is at a different angle so I have to erase the one below it. The painting is a different size, I'm inserting it lower and now a cat & a dog have disappeared. So I have to erase & get them back, change the density, brightness, color etc, etc, etc for many an hour at the computer.
Were there other issues? In word: yes. Will we mention them? In a word: No.
HERE IS THE FINAL PRODUCT!!!! (And don't tell me it looks fake. In person it look great.
You just think you could tell because you know all the secrets.) I had total of 12 layers at one time
while I was moving parts of six very different images onto the seventh.
PHOTO TIP: Make sure you have all the expectations, rates & sizes spelled out on when you
begin a project with your clients. I was originally doing the card as a bonus to the sitting.
Then it became a major photo editing project. Work smarter.
BLESSINGS!
See more images
Contact me to ask a question, purchase an image, take a class or hire me for a project:
artisticimagesbypc@me.com
Posted by Pamela at 11/17/2010 6:31 PM 
Categories: Photography tips, Instructional, Personal
Tags: photo editing photography tips Pet portraits Madam X layers Photoshop dogs cats
Categories: Photography tips, Instructional, Personal
Tags: photo editing photography tips Pet portraits Madam X layers Photoshop dogs cats
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