Post Your Photo Effects!

[BrassMan]

OK, scarlet & everyone. Here's a thread to post the photos you've "messed with" somehow. The only rule, if we must have a rule, is that it has to be a photo you've taken and not one you've found on the net.

To start things off, your basic thunderstorm:

[scarlet]

Take a picture of seagulls lined up by the pier, change it to grey scale, then invert it and get...

[BrassMan]

What fun! Here are some day lilies brought over from another thread, where I had to apologize for their being fooled with. Here, they're kosher:

[BrassMan]

Before scarlet gets home to upload to Photobucket, I'll throw in a couple more, just pour encourager les autres: Bob Blue Eyes, may he rest in peace, daughter #2 at the harpsichord, and a winter sunrise.

[PhillipA82]

Just WOW

Great effects

[scarlet]

Al,

I don't need to go home to post stuff already on photobucket, so here's a progression of Machu Picchu madness....

[scarlet]

[BrassMan]

Thanks! The truth is numbers two and three, above, were pitifully simple--just ran them through a filter. OK, it took a bit of testing this filter and that one, and then tweaking it, before I liked it, but it was pure, basic messing around. The top one, of good ole Bob, was a little trickier and needed a different, non-simple program. Here's another one that took hours. It's a collage of two different pictures, taken within fifteen minutes of each other. The heron was flying around a garbage-strewn parking lot. That's why he was there--looking for snacks. The parking lot was at a lake, which I also shot. When I got home and downloaded the pictures, I noticed that the bird and the lake were taken at about the same angle to the sun. So I removed the heron from the parking lot and stuck him over the lake, pixel by pixel, almost. I love this picture, but it's a total lie. Never believe any picture you see on the internet!

[VictoriaP]

Thanks! The truth is numbers two and three, above, were pitifully simple--just ran them through a filter. OK, it took a bit of testing this filter and that one, and then tweaking it, before I liked it, but it was pure, basic messing around.

LOL--so the question then becomes, WHAT filter?!  If you're going to post these fabulous things, you ought to at least have to tell us what you did to get there.

I just changed over to PS CS4 literally this weekend; I'd given up Photoshop when I left work on medical leave, and I haven't tried porting all my old actions over from CS3 on the PC to CS4 on the Mac.  Heaven only knows which ones will still work.

[scarlet]

Al's more sophisticated then I am, I just play with effects on photobucket.  I don't know how to photoshop.

[scarlet]

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[BrassMan]

LOL--so the question then becomes, WHAT filter?!  If you're going to post these fabulous things, you ought to at least have to tell us what you did to get there.

I found those filters all over the net, for free. I don't even remember where. They're not big, and you can download scads of them. I don't care for many, but when they're free you can't complain. I apply most of them in ifanview, a FREE, small, fairly simple photoprocessing program available from irfanview.com. (I also downloaded their suite of free plugins, also not a huge package.) I probably use it for 98% of my photoediting. The painterly effects are another program and the ones that involve superimposition require a program that does layers. I could barely open PhotoShop. That's the most user un-friendly software I think I've ever seen, and it's hugely expensive to boot. I use JASC Paint Shop Pro 8 for layers, and even that program pushes my own personal envelope, simple soul that I am.

I'll dig out some of the layered ones I used for my book covers and blog, involving Ana Darcy. If you've seen any of those, you've seen layers in action (like the heron, above).

[BrassMan]

I like those, scarlet! You did those with filters, I'm guessing, right?

Here are some examples of layering one photo over another (with thanks to the universe for helping them fit in):







This is a simple one, done in Irfanview with just a few clicks:

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Here's a pic of my niece I "Twighlighted" awhile back...



Here's she's nuzzled up with Edward (the Twilight poster was downloaded off the net).

[cagnes]

Here are some examples of layering one photo over another (with thanks to the universe for helping them fit in):

Love this one!

[VictoriaP]

And see, I adore layers.  I've missed Photoshop horribly; hunted on ebay for months to find a LEGAL, not too outrageously priced copy.  I agree, PS (and most "commercial" software) is insanely priced.  I worked in the industry for years and got used to employee discounts.  Paying full price for this stuff just isn't worth it.  No, PS isn't intuitive by any means, but it's actually a lot easier than I would have imagined when I started out.  Picked up a PS for Dummies equivalent and just dove in.  Actions are essentially taking multiple steps and "recording" them so you can use the same set of steps over and over--they're a huge timesaver and often a lot of fun too.

Having said that, I got away with using a small inexpensive program for the Mac called Acorn.  It's a little more sophisticated than many web freebies, not as much so as using PS.  I'll have to dig out some of what I did in the past and toss it up here.

[scarlet]

I like those, scarlet! You did those with filters, I'm guessing, right?

Nope, I don't know from filters.  Photobucket has a bunch of effects, so I pick one I like and then save a copy and then pick another one and save the copy of the new change.... That's the progression on the machu pichu ones.  the red/green flower is using the duotone or color invert effect.

[BrassMan]

Nope, I don't know from filters.  Photobucket has a bunch of effects, so I pick one I like and then save a copy and then pick another one and save the copy of the new change.... That's the progression on the machu pichu ones.  the red/green flower is using the duotone or color invert effect.

I'm afraid I'm too old to learn PhotoShop, and/or too stupid, but as for filters, anyone who wants to try them can first find some (Google, etc.), download them to a file, start up Irfanview or other photoeditor, and tell it to install (or find) filters. Then open a picture in that program and have it apply the filter. That's about all there is to it. Always save the original, of course. Lift with your legs, not your back, and forget about drinking eight glasses of water a day. That one is bogus.

[BrassMan]

Love this one!

And I love the one with your niece! I've not seen the movie, and you could have fooled me into thinking that was the original poster with a pair of movie stars. Nicely done!

[scarlet]

I'm afraid I'm too old to learn PhotoShop, and/or too stupid, but as for filters, anyone who wants to try them can first find some (Google, etc.), download them to a file, start up Irfanview or other photoeditor, and tell it to install (or find) filters. Then open a picture in that program and have it apply the filter. That's about all there is to it. Always save the original, of course. Lift with your legs, not your back, and forget about drinking eight glasses of water a day. That one is bogus.

I don't photoshop, I'm too old for that!  But if you have a photobucket account, just hit edit on one of your pictures and explore the effects!

[scarlet]

Some fun with Broadway marquees....

[mlewis78]

I like BrassMan's Heron photo so much that I put it on my desktop background.  Looks great.

[BrassMan]

Here's a shot from a performance by a ballet folklorico and mariachi group. The tiny flash on my camera was useless but I clicked away out of hope. It paid off. The neck of the guitar makes the picture.

[scarlet]

greyscale with some color left then overlaid with the paint effect.