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[b00g3R]

alright im trying to find out how they did this and probally the easiest way to do this.. alright take a look at this background.. from Dane Cook's site.. http://www.danecook....shadow_1280.jpg now its a pic of him well an outline of him but its pretty good cuz it gets his hair and stuff.. i wanna now do you do that... thx

[KIERAN]

b00g3R, on Dec 6 2005, 05:48 AM, said:

alright im trying to find out how they did this and probally the easiest way to do this.. alright take a look at this background.. from Dane Cook's site.. http://www.danecook....shadow_1280.jpg now its a pic of him well an outline of him but its pretty good cuz it gets his hair and stuff.. i wanna now do you do that... thx

Id say that it is a combination of things that you can do underneath the "Filter" menu.

[ndesign-studio]

Are you talking about the background? It is basically a cutout with outer glow effect.

[coolaid]

custom pen tool shape with an outer glow

[Scythar]

Nope, no pen applied here,
just like nDesign says: cutout, pasted on background with 2 gradients
glow applied from the layers effects and afterwards event. a color overlay to accentuate the blue even more and perhaps even a lower contrast.
The effect can be accentuated even more with a lower color depth, like is done here.

You know what: instead of correcting my exams this afternoon i will try to make a variation i like more then this one. Sry bout that, but i dont like this one (but hey, who am I, right?)

Edited by Scythar, 08 December 2005 - 03:03 AM.

[Scythar]

Here comes a possible version:

1. Open in photoshop the photos you want in the foreground (animals, a person, or whatever --> in my case a render of the standard poser 6 figure), and cut out the part you need.

Since detail is gonna be gone anyway, no need to be really precise: the fast way to do this is (if the contrast is right) first with the magnetic lasso tool and then to finetune, hold the shift key and use the regular lasso tool.
2. If you want your final selection on its own layer just press ctrl+J.
3. do this with any other photo if you want to put more images in the background (f.ex. 3 animals)
4. Now open a beautifull and dark background, f.ex a picture of a sunset, or like me...

5. Make a new layer, get the rectangular selection tool and draw a selection across the bottom quarter of your background.
6. Fill this selection with black.
7. Switch back to the person or animals photos, get the move tool (press v), drag the person/animal/object over onto your sunset and press ctrl+T to bring up Free Transform --> move the picture at the border of the black rectangle and scale down as you like. Then press enter to confirm and leave the free transform mode.
8. ctrl+click on the layer thumbnail to select your figure and fill it with black.
9. Add some type at the bottom.


Another example (Bryce, Poser and Photoshop):

Edited by Scythar, 08 December 2005 - 10:44 AM.

[Ghost]

Well you could actually use the pen tool Get the original image, make a shape layer around it and apply a gradient to it with an outer glow. The background just has a gradient with a lighter gradient applied to the top half

Here's a quick one I whipped up It's a skater if anyone couldn't see it right

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