What started as an interesting set of outdoor seats at one of the courtyards at the Art Institute, ended tonight with the cooperation of P3 (Professor Percival Penguin) as a composite conveying an urban walkabout. Thank you for your wonderful response to the fog coming in and out shot from yesterday. It was on PP today which was exciting to see - quite unexpected!
This one involved Topaz Textures.
Love this shot, but do agree with Jane. Maybe you could remove P3 in PS with the Patch Tool and/or clone tool? Then you could go back into PS and pop P3 back into place.
Or, if P3's image is on a jpg of his own you could superimpose another of the exact same image on top of the textures using layers?
@golftragic Mmmm....I know all the words in your description and even the program, but this is where I run into layers problems and having to mask. But I'll give it a try tomorrow when I'm more alert. It would look better if he weren't so textured out.
@golftragic Just emailed you with a question about changing the size -- I found the original jpeg but P3 is smaller as I had increased his size in the textures one.
Excellent shot and processing and so interesting to read the comments as to how to remove the textures too on P3. Have you still got this as a PSD? If you have it should be relatively easy to work on one layer.
If not you could just use the quick selection tool on P3 and darken him on the curves. You still have the textures but he would be darker.
I think he looks okay as he is though, he blends in.
At first I thought you had been playing with 3D shapes! I like the texture you have used. Layers and layer masks are not very daunting. There are lots of very easy to understand tutorials around.
I was reading the first comment and couldn't understand why he wasn't looking great to me but know I understand, he was fixed. I love the forced perspective you created in the processing with P3, he looks fab. Great creative and artistic looking photo, nicely blended images and composition. How did you fix the colour problem, without losing your comments? Doesn't sound like you use picmonkey or did you? Reason I ask because there's been times I wanted to make a change to a photo, but lost the few comments I already had.
Also Sally @salza what videos do you recommend to watch, because I know nothing. Some direction and help would be greatly appreciated.
@juleshoogstraanderson
I edited this in Photoshop, and then saved it as I normally would for uploading. Then, what you can do is go into Picmonkey as if you were going to edit, and when the photo appears, click open. That takes you to your computer and you upload the new version. It asks if you are sure you want to do that as it will replace the one that is there -- you click agree/yes or whatever it says. Then it replaces the image without your losing your comments.
Thanx Taffy, that is very helpful information and I just need to email the photo to myself, open it on my husband's computer and use picmonkey on it. I can't use picmonkey on my iPad, so now I know how to get around the problem. Thanx again, I really appreciate taking the time to help me.
You can find a mountain more by searching google (I searched for 'introduction to layers in Photoshop'). wWhen I first started doing post processing I used a different program (Serif PhotoPlus) although the principles were pretty much the same as photoshop, then I switched to PS Elements and now I use PS CC.
Great composite, I really like your use of texture in this. @juleshoogstraanderson thanks for asking that question, I never knew it was possible to change pics that way, thanks for the detailed response Taffy.
Or, if P3's image is on a jpg of his own you could superimpose another of the exact same image on top of the textures using layers?
If not you could just use the quick selection tool on P3 and darken him on the curves. You still have the textures but he would be darker.
I think he looks okay as he is though, he blends in.
Also Sally @salza what videos do you recommend to watch, because I know nothing. Some direction and help would be greatly appreciated.
I edited this in Photoshop, and then saved it as I normally would for uploading. Then, what you can do is go into Picmonkey as if you were going to edit, and when the photo appears, click open. That takes you to your computer and you upload the new version. It asks if you are sure you want to do that as it will replace the one that is there -- you click agree/yes or whatever it says. Then it replaces the image without your losing your comments.
You can find a mountain more by searching google (I searched for 'introduction to layers in Photoshop'). wWhen I first started doing post processing I used a different program (Serif PhotoPlus) although the principles were pretty much the same as photoshop, then I switched to PS Elements and now I use PS CC.