show your photoshop chops

drphoto · « **on:** 15 Jun 2007, 11:09 pm »

Show us your digital chops!

Here's a project that I think is one of my better efforts.

This was an ad for Dana for a new line of high strength truck axles. The before pic is not the exact original (you'll notice the perspective if a bit off) but it is more or less what I started with. This is fairly old, as it was done in Pshop 6 on my homebrew Mac clone. (daystar Genesis chassis)

Final ad

Starting point

Scott F. · « **Reply #1 on:** 15 Jun 2007, 11:36 pm »

WOW

Thats way too cool. One of these days I'll figure out how to use all the features of Photoshop. But for now I just play with it a bit.

Here is one that I used for a recent review, The Aperion Audio 633T speakers. I started with snagging a scene from the movie 2001 (I know, I should have asked Stanly Kubrick for permission). The scene was horribly dark so I lightened it as best I could without making it too cartoonish. Then I Dropped the 633's in the pic. I had to cut off the apes hand and reattach it after the speaker was in place.

It turned out pretty OK.

drphoto · « **Reply #2 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 12:01 am »

Hey Scott....that's not bad. Pretty decent masking on the hand of the guy who overlaps the speaker. Pretty funny idea. Whadya think about the same thing with a Maggie? More of the 'monolith' look?

Feel free to PM for any advice. I've been doing this since Pshop 2.5 beta (before layers)

In case you're interested, the best instructional book out there is Deke McClellen's "Photoshop Bible" IMHO. Not the easiest....but if you need to do something...Deke will show you how.

Russel Brown's website is good too. He show's a lot of stuff that I thought I'd invented on my own.

nathanm · « **Reply #3 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 12:24 am »

Here's a colorizing B&W project I did for a friend's mother a few years ago. A helluva lotta labor went into this one!

drphoto · « **Reply #4 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 12:34 am »

Holy cow! That's pretty impressive

Audiovista · « **Reply #5 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 01:12 am »

You people are good!

Just to mix it up a little: here is a friend's picture, predating Photo-chop - all manual.....

Copyright Sinisa Graovac (reproduced with permission)

drphoto · « **Reply #6 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 01:23 am »

jeesus! If you did that by hand stripping ......you've got my respect.!

Audiovista · « **Reply #7 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 01:37 am »

Well...not me....

I don't have neither skills nor patience to do something like that....

Scott F. · « **Reply #8 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 01:50 am »

Sorry for asking a dumb question but what is stripping (OK, no naked jokes)

Heres a couple I did a number of years ago in the old PhotoStudio 2.0

and after

Mister Jeffries before

and after

Wardsweb · « **Reply #9 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 04:03 am »

From a couple years ago and for one of my car forums.

Lensman · « **Reply #10 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 02:35 pm »

This was a painstaking project.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Lensman

drphoto · « **Reply #11 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 02:42 pm »

Sweet! That's some serious grinding.

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #12 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 02:43 pm »

WOW!

That's cool!!!

Daygloworange · « **Reply #13 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 02:49 pm »

Wow! How many hours involved to clean that up?

Cheers

drphoto · « **Reply #14 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 03:02 pm »

BTW: ScottF. Stripping is just old school slang for compositing.

Lensman · « **Reply #15 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 04:19 pm »

Quote from: Daygloworange on 16 Jun 2007, 02:49 pm

Wow! How many hours involved to clean that up?

Cheers

Dayglow...

That one took about 18 hours. Having to reconstruct areas of the building concealed by poles, signs, streetlights, etc. was rather time-consuming.

Lensman

Lensman · « **Reply #16 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 04:29 pm »

Quote from: drphoto on 15 Jun 2007, 11:09 pm

Show us your digital chops!

Here's a project that I think is one of my better efforts.

This was an ad for Dana for a new line of high strength truck axles. The before pic is not the exact original (you'll notice the perspective if a bit off) but it is more or less what I started with. This is fairly old, as it was done in Pshop 6 on my homebrew Mac clone. (daystar Genesis chassis)

Nicely done and a very effective end result! I like the smoke on the tires.

Lensman

Lensman · « **Reply #17 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 04:47 pm »

Quote from: nathanm on 16 Jun 2007, 12:24 am

Here's a colorizing B&W project I did for a friend's mother a few years ago. A helluva lotta labor went into this one!

Nathan,

That is a nice piece of work!

Lensman

Lensman · « **Reply #18 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 06:33 pm »

Here's one...

Lensman

SET Man · « **Reply #19 on:** 16 Jun 2007, 06:42 pm »

Hey!

Interesting.

But to be honest I'm not really good at Photoshop chopping.

Take care
Buddy