My friend wants me to help him with the art for a CD he is making. I am not an expert with photoshopping, but this is basically multiple images layered together. It's not meant to be entirely realistic. But I wanted to give the feeling that the trees are kinda growing out of/off buildings, sort of like how ivy covers the side of a wall. I'm not terribly happy with it, and it still needs some cleaning up. But I am looking for some feedback on from some people who realy know how to do this, or just what people think in general? Should I totally scrap it? Here is the link to it:
Its very dark in places which makes it photo that I would not take a lot of time looking at..... and you have no trunks.. I know you said you wanted that ivy covered feel, but without the trunks it just looks wrong.. IMO.
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@nikkers thanks yea this is helpful. it does look a little odd to me too. my friend was looking for a surreal kind of look to it, but i'm just not sure how i feel about this. i;m going to come up with some other ideas too. thanks!
its hard to know what you're after.
I'd go mad if I was you. layer up the original photo and put like 10 tree photos on different layers, then go through and adjust the layers to Overlay, soft light, hard light on the layer menu, and adjust the colour sat. the contrast and black and white and opacity. Just go mad till its an abstract almost. Save different versions as you go.
I think you are going to find it difficutl if you want the photo that dark.... With darkness come lack of detail.
I would look at having the trees (and trunks as suggested) and then add the buildings. have half the trunks sticking out in parts so it has the feeling that the tree has grown up through the building.
I would also sharpen before convert to B&W. This will the edges a white glow so when you convert it will stand out.
@nikkers@chewyteeth@agima thank you all for the tips and suggestions. Finding this project to be a huge PITA right now. Got to keep working at it, but I appreciate your feedback!
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Hope this helps a bit
maybe if you had the building coming up like it was the trunk.???
I'd go mad if I was you. layer up the original photo and put like 10 tree photos on different layers, then go through and adjust the layers to Overlay, soft light, hard light on the layer menu, and adjust the colour sat. the contrast and black and white and opacity. Just go mad till its an abstract almost. Save different versions as you go.
I think you are going to find it difficutl if you want the photo that dark.... With darkness come lack of detail.
I would look at having the trees (and trunks as suggested) and then add the buildings. have half the trunks sticking out in parts so it has the feeling that the tree has grown up through the building.
I would also sharpen before convert to B&W. This will the edges a white glow so when you convert it will stand out.