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[Clandestine]

Alright so we've all seen them. Where you take three pictures and put them into one and make a cool looking new picture. Does anyone know of a tutorial or can tell me how to go about this?

Thanks

-Devyn

[Matthew.]

Well here is p2l's photo editing section:
http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/adobe_.../photo_editing/

There's not much else i can provide unless you give specific details, like what effects you want etc.

[Clandestine]

Alright, say you have a picture that someone manipluated, to make it look like a 100000000 foot wooden bridge going across say the desert or w/e.

What are the steps they took to do that? Did they just cute out the image they wanted and put it all toghther? How do you make it flow so it looks natural?

-Devyn

[Scythar]

k, that would be rather specific, lol...

What i would do then is take a photograph of a desert, with easy lighting, so in middle off day f.ex and by sunset r something. (with light effects you can change it a little anyway).
Then i would go standing on a rather long bridge and would try to take a picture myself while staring at the end and as horizontal as i could.
Then i would cut out the bridge with the selecting tools first and finetune with the mask/brush function second.

Then i would place the cut out bridge on top of desert, rotate, skew, scale, deform the layer so it would seem thet the bridge is a lot onger then i actually is.
Then softening the edges again, so its not too obvious its a cutout picture.

Then i would duplicate the layer and mirror it, fill it with black, lower the opacity to bout 10%, and choose multiply as layer mode, making a shodow for the bridge.

Depending where the shadow would be, i would then try to adjust with render

[Davey]

u would crop the parts u wanted to keep, then more than likely use smudge/blur/clonestamp/etc to merge them smoothly - that's a very basic outline of how i would try and do it but i might b wrong... never tried it...

[Scythar]

This isnt exacly what your optaining, judging by your "bridge question", but...
Start maybe with the following:

1. take 4 pictures that (f.ex. winter, spring, summer, fall thingy)
2. make your PS canvas almost 4x the resolution of 1 picture.
3. place the 4 pictures, each on there own layer and each anchered at a corner of you canvas

so now you would have 4 pictures overlapping partially in the middle part of your canvas.

Choose whatever layer your gonna work on (= every one is ok, except the lowest)
Click in the toolbar on "mask mode"
(If you dont like the standard red, and the opacity is too high to work, double click on that same icon to change the settings... i usually take green instead of red)

Now, with a very soft brush of your likings, start painting at the overlapping edge of your painting (black = mask, white = unmask, all the rest = inbetween)

Thats how the make a "collage", only it always needs some tweeking at the end, but since i am a little colorblind, that not my specialty .

I'll try to get an example and link the picture here later.

EDIT:
This one started out as real masks (with hard edges --> meaning: i made a rectangle/circular selection and hit the mask button in the layers palette) and then in mask mode i painted back the flowers.

Dunno if this is an effect you want to achieve, or if you really want the hard way (picture in picture)

Edited by Scythar, 19 September 2006 - 08:14 AM.

[Clandestine]

This is what im trying to accomplish. By looking at the pic its obviously multiple stock images put together. So yea I hope this gives a betteer understanding of what im trying to do


(Found image on deviant art all credit goes to Stary Day by *DustinGen)

-Devyn

[Scythar]

Darn,
you really ment "the hard way" ()

I bought a book specially for accomplishing that kind of effect:
"Masking & Compositing" written by Katrin Eismann, published dy New Riders.

I am really trying to get there, but for me, my patience and my skills just arent high enough .

Its a very expensive, but very good book.

To give you an idea of what she tries to help you mastering, here is the website where you can see all the pictures off her book:
http://www.photoshopmasking.com/

But like i said, i am really really a noob on this area.