| Sun | Mon |
Tue | Wed |
Thu | Fri |
Sat | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | | | | |
|
Jim Hicks
Registered: May 2007
Location: Maryland
Posts: 134
|
|
Tue December 15, 2009 11:02pm
|
|
|
I edited the pics used for the last post. I painted over all the original background with a solid pink color. Pink doesn't appear in the parts I want to keep and this makes it easy to cut the rods out from the background. My software has a "magic wand" feature to select all of a solid color and I used that to select the pink background. The next step was to "reverse selection" so that the program unselected the pink background and selected everything else. The rest is a simple copy and paste into an appropriate background. Try to pick a background with a lighting direction that matches your original image. With JPG compression and dithering you will probably end up with the edges of the pasted image being too obvious; in this case I had a little bit of pinkish tint in the edges. I zoomed into the image and "blurred" the edges to blend the new background colors over the pinkish spots. The program I'm using is a real old one called IPhoto Plus v1.1; there is a much newer version of this program but it doesn't have all the neat functions the original one does.
|
|
Tom Kirkman
Registered: March 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,459
|
|
Wed December 16, 2009 9:55am
|
|
|
Very well done.
|
|
Jim Hicks
Registered: May 2007
Location: Maryland
Posts: 134
|
|
Thu December 17, 2009 7:29am
|
|
|
Thanks Tom.
|
|
Jim Hicks
Registered: May 2007
Location: Maryland
Posts: 134
|
|
Thu December 17, 2009 7:37am
|
|
|
One note about the original pics of the rod; the photo was taken with a macro lens up close. A macro lens will give you a very narrow field of focus, so the angled rod has the reel seat in focus and the butt is out of focus. The sharp focus on foreground reels and background trees makes the out of focus butts look out of place and they're very difficult to blend into the image, far beyond my editing abilities. What I should have done is use a telephoto lens and had someone else hold the rod while I stood back and took the photo. The telephoto lens would have given me a deeper field of focus, the rod image would have been in sharper focus throughout and would have blended into the new background much more easily.
|
|
|
|
