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[Aurora]

The background looks pretty real to me.

Sweet. Thanks. I put her up against a white background on purpose so it would be easy to cut away. I need to just buy a photo backdrop and put together my light boxes like I have wanted to for awhile now. God knows I have a good enough camera to take professional looking photos. Now if I could just learn to use it properly. :\

 

[The_Warlock]

Not bad. Doing laundry once again. *sigh*

Last night I worked on a photo for a friend (and then of course turned it into a layout )

Tell me what you think. This is the photo before and then I added a background to it in this layout. Do you think that the background looks real enough?

Nifty! Nice blending, and I think the foreground limits the depth of the background, thus preventing any real focus on it as unreal, especially since there don't appear to be any incongruous edge issues on the figure. Well done.

 

[Aeson]

I am gonna go heat up some pizza for lunch. We got some Dominoes thin crust pizza last night. I was quite surprised....it was really good. I love thin crust pizza. I just hate getting it because it costs the same as a reg pizza but you are getting like half as much foodage. :\

I like it also. I never understood how they got away with charging the same price. The toppings are the same amount regardless of the crust type. That could be one reason.


BTW The most expensive topping on a pizza is the cheese and it's the one they use the most.

 

[The_Warlock]

A NY Subway map? Interesting.

Need to figure out easy access to potential focus groups facilities for specific zip codes we will be targeting for survey . Thus, subway access is important, since some of the areas are modestly large when it comes to transit.

 

[Aeson]

Sweet. Thanks. I put her up against a white background on purpose so it would be easy to cut away. I need to just buy a photo backdrop and put together my light boxes like I have wanted to for awhile now. God knows I have a good enough camera to take professional looking photos. Now if I could just learn to use it properly. :\

You took the picture also? I say go for it if you can afford it.

 

[Aurora]

Nifty! Nice blending, and I think the foreground limits the depth of the background, thus preventing any real focus on it as unreal, especially since there don't appear to be any incongruous edge issues on the figure. Well done.

Thanks I sat there and carefully feathered (by hand) the foreground to get rid of that "pasted" look. I know there is a way to easily feather (I even found the tutorials) but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. (I have never had problems with it before.) Took me forever this way, but I spent a long time trying to get it to work the other way and then finally just gave up.

 

[Aurora]

You took the picture also? I say go for it if you can afford it.

Yes.
You can find backdrops for not too terribly much money. Actually for about the cost of one professional photo shoot + pics. Light boxes are expensive if you buy them, but fairly cheap and easy to construct on your own and the homemade ones work just as well.

 

[Aeson]

Yes.
You can find backdrops for not too terribly much money. Actually for about the cost of one professional photo shoot + pics. Light boxes are expensive if you buy them, but fairly cheap and easy to construct on your own and the homemade ones work just as well.

Then do it. You never know. You might start a career as a photographer.

 

[The_Warlock]

Thanks I sat there and carefully feathered (by hand) the foreground to get rid of that "pasted" look. I know there is a way to easily feather (I even found the tutorials) but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. (I have never had problems with it before.) Took me forever this way, but I spent a long time trying to get it to work the other way and then finally just gave up.

You are quite welcome, if that's manually done, I'm doubly impressed. When I've had feathering problems in PS, it's generally been because I've either had the wrong thing selected, the wrong layer targeted, or the wrong "side" of the two objects selected in terms of layer level. And it's the one thing that is hard to intuit when editing, in my opinion. So, even weller doner...chuckle

 

[Aurora]

Then do it. You never know. You might start a career as a photographer.

This is something that I have actually considered. I love photography, but only consider myself a novice. I want to take some classes mainly just for myself. I am sure once I get a studio set up at home though my friends are gonna want to bring their kids over. LOL I am fine with that.