I was fooling around with a WWYD version of the salt and pepper shakers today. I had a different picture of Sam gazing up at them in the night sky when Jeff came in and suggested I put this shot of Sam and Isaac in instead. After I recovered from the shock of the fact that he actually took an interest in my editing follies, I decided to take him up on his suggestion. It was only then that he said, "Oh, I think they should be walking on earth, not in the sky." OK, so this is now falling into the "too many cooks spoil the batter" syndrome! LOL Thus, Sam and Isaac have remained in the sky for now, and maybe later I'll fool around and put them back on earth in my second album. Stay tuned for more Adventures in Processing!
@edie Thank you Edie! Ah yes- we must do something to laugh the winter doldrums away! @httpgeffed Thank you Colleen! @eudora Thank you Diane! @digitalrn Thanks Rick! I definitely had fun with this one!! @kerristephens Thank you Kerri! @salza Thank you Sally! The toddler version! @maggiemae Thank you Maggie! @henrir Thank you Henri! They are anywhere you imagination wants to take them! @automaticslim lol Andy! Stanley Kubrick for Preschoolers! @nicolecampbell Thanks Nicole! This version is totally mine, but I'm going to post the one where Jeff made the calls in a little while. @mrssmith Thank you Carla! It was definitely a fun one to put together. @daisy Thank you Kathryn!
@granny7 Thank you Linda! I'm glad you liked it. This one is as detailed to put together as it looks. I first uploaded the original picture to BeFunky. I then flipped the picture so that the shakers were on the left side. The next thing to be applied was an effect called "Motion". There are two options which are free and I chose the one that has that neon green and purple coloring. This changes the picture colors to black, green, purple and silver. I then saved this version in my computer. Next, I jumped over to iPiccy for the last three steps. First I uploaded the "base" photo from BeFunky and then the picture of the boys. I then chose the texture application and applied an outer space "texture" which I have saved in my computer from the now defunct Picnik to the base photo. I haven't checked to see if these textures are in Ribbet (which is basically Picnik reincarnated) or not, but when they were in Picnik they appeared in the "Featured" section in a subdivision called Outer Space- I think. After applying the texture under the "difference" setting, I went to the "merge" application (it looks like a stack of blue envelopes) and then clicked on the button for photos. I selected the photo of the boys from the left side column and brought it over to the base photo positioning the boys were I wanted them to appear in the shot and adjusted the size accordingly. To merge the photos I decided just to outline the boys and not use anything else from their picture (basically I isolated them from the rest of their picture). To do this you choose the Vector Mask application. I have no idea what that names means, but when you choose this you can outline whatever shape you want, first by choosing three points of a triangle and then spreading out the mask to fit the shape of what you're tracing. Once I had them outlined to my liking, I feathered the edges so that their picture would blend into the sky and then selected the "difference" setting for them as well so that they matched the shakers. The last step here was to add a simple border frame. I think anything else would have been distracting and the picture was busy enough already. Once all that was set in place the final product was ready to save and upload to 365. So there you have it- it's a bit more complicated than other kinds of processing but as you can see the end result is whimsical and fun. And there are a 1000 variations you can do with this. You can also merge more than one picture on to a "base photo". You just repeat the merge process for as many times as pictures you're going to merge. I hope these directions are understandable. I really don't know all the processing lingo and most of my processing "magic" is self-taught by experimenting and wondering what different "buttons" do. If something seems unclear feel free to ask again!
Thank you once again to everyone- you fun responses had me laughing! And thanks especially to the one who fav'd it- you know who you are even though I don't! I love my grandsons so I'm lovin' the great responses from you all!
Jeff is your husband? I love it when my husband not only puts up with and is patient with the project but gets a bit interested too! This is ETSOOI at it's finest!
@sangwann Thank you Dione! @cimes1 Thank you Carole! @shirljess Thank you Shirley! And thank you so much for the fav!! I really had a lot of fun with this one. @espyetta Thank you MaryBeth! Yes, Jeff is my husband and has occasionally participated in my insanity but playing an instrument or posing with one of our grandchildren. But this was the first time he wanted to play "director" on one of my pictures. He's suggested shots before too- but never really paid any attention to the final product. So it was fun to have him offer his two cents worth! In the end, I didn't want to make the changes he suggested to this shot, but I did post a shot of Isaac and Sam that we collaborated on in album number 2 today. He told me what to do and I did the necessary processing. We don't always see eye to eye on how things should look or be done (two highly creative but different individuals are we!) but this time it worked!
@tanja_1211 Thanks Tanja! Actually, what I'm thinking of doing is putting them in a number of different settings, making a story out of it and giving it to them as a gift. What boy wouldn't want to explore the world?!
This is really a great shot, although it makes me want a story to explain why there are giant salt and pepper shakers over the kids. And funny that your comment about too many "cooks" came with this one.
hahaha! have the boys seen this? they'd probably jump up and down and would tell you stories that come to mind. i remember darren when he was about 3 or thereabouts i brought him to an event for kids. one of the activities was to choose a pair of paper wings and paint it and then wear it. as soon as he put it on he ran across the ballroom then was screaming "how come i'm not flying? i have wings?" oh the minds of babies, so pure and lovely.
@olivetreeann - what a great and detailed explanation. I have saved this if you don't mind! I just love what you have done here, you have a wonderful imagination and obviously a very patient nature to put all this together. Absolute fav, pure genius!
@summerfield Thank you Vikki! I haven't told the sons or grandsons about the pictures yet, but am definitely going to do a series and put them into a photo book on something like Snapfish as a gift. I'll write a little story to go with it too- just something special for the two of them. As for an explanation as to how I did it, see above in the massive reply to granny7- it's all there. @jackie8 Thank you Jackie! I don't mind at all- in fact, I'm flattered! When I was in high school and college I had no idea that graphics and processing existed. Although I was a Fine Arts major, I ended up in art history instead of drawing or such. Had I known this type of art was out there, I might have gone a different route. Playing around with the processing really brings the things I can imagine to life. I'm planning to do a few more and make a book for them. And thank you so much for the fav!
January 15th, 2013
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@httpgeffed Thank you Colleen!
@eudora Thank you Diane!
@digitalrn Thanks Rick! I definitely had fun with this one!!
@kerristephens Thank you Kerri!
@salza Thank you Sally! The toddler version!
@maggiemae Thank you Maggie!
@henrir Thank you Henri! They are anywhere you imagination wants to take them!
@automaticslim lol Andy! Stanley Kubrick for Preschoolers!
@nicolecampbell Thanks Nicole! This version is totally mine, but I'm going to post the one where Jeff made the calls in a little while.
@mrssmith Thank you Carla! It was definitely a fun one to put together.
@daisy Thank you Kathryn!
Thank you once again to everyone- you fun responses had me laughing! And thanks especially to the one who fav'd it- you know who you are even though I don't! I love my grandsons so I'm lovin' the great responses from you all!
@cimes1 Thank you Carole!
@shirljess Thank you Shirley! And thank you so much for the fav!! I really had a lot of fun with this one.
@espyetta Thank you MaryBeth! Yes, Jeff is my husband and has occasionally participated in my insanity but playing an instrument or posing with one of our grandchildren. But this was the first time he wanted to play "director" on one of my pictures. He's suggested shots before too- but never really paid any attention to the final product. So it was fun to have him offer his two cents worth! In the end, I didn't want to make the changes he suggested to this shot, but I did post a shot of Isaac and Sam that we collaborated on in album number 2 today. He told me what to do and I did the necessary processing. We don't always see eye to eye on how things should look or be done (two highly creative but different individuals are we!) but this time it worked!
@la_photographic Thanks Laura!
how did you do this, layering? great work, ann.
@jackie8 Thank you Jackie! I don't mind at all- in fact, I'm flattered! When I was in high school and college I had no idea that graphics and processing existed. Although I was a Fine Arts major, I ended up in art history instead of drawing or such. Had I known this type of art was out there, I might have gone a different route. Playing around with the processing really brings the things I can imagine to life. I'm planning to do a few more and make a book for them. And thank you so much for the fav!