Variations & the Power of SPE
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- andrewb2012
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Variations & the Power of SPE
by andrewb2012 » Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:52 pm
The dancing girl courtesy http://www.photo-reference-for-comic-artists.com and is used under commercial license.
Simply created a mask and played with a variety of background effects. Rather easy to do in Smart Photo Editor!
In this instance I have not recorded the effects that I used, because, quite literally the whole series was completed in a few minutes.
Here are some of the results:
Enjoy!
Regards,
Andrew
Simply created a mask and played with a variety of background effects. Rather easy to do in Smart Photo Editor!
In this instance I have not recorded the effects that I used, because, quite literally the whole series was completed in a few minutes.
Here are some of the results:
- Variations (small).jpg (1.35 MiB) Viewed 4432 times
Enjoy!
Regards,
Andrew
Re: Variations & the Power of SPE
by eadams » Thu Jul 17, 2014 7:49 pm
Thank you for posting these inspirational variations!
Re: Variations & the Power of SPE
by Phelon » Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:23 pm
Hi Andrew,
Very interesting looks; I like them all. The shadow that goes with the girl was fun to see how it worked out in the different backgrounds, and therefore, in my mind, I'm trying to reconstruct the pictures. May I guess on the shadow? 1. The picture of the girl came with her shadow and had a white background and showed a light demarcation of the joining of wall and floor. 2. The background area was selected all around the girl using SPE Select Area. 3. SPE Effects was then used choosing Area 1 (Background), and this gave a wide selection of backgrounds to choose from. 4. A choice was made using this same routine for each picture. 5. Now the tricky part: you erased away the area over the shadow/s (girl and wall) and applied some area saturation, etc. over the central shadow (especially the reddish/orange background).
On the first picture, I can see a little lighter area on the right-side of her head--quite effective painting.
This was fun to think about, and I know you don't mind the reconstruction guessing. That's what we all have to do when making any of our "works".
Your pictures were put together in a nice montage; very nicely presented. Some people can learn how easy this all becomes in SPE. There may be a different way to construct your pictures, but I did enjoy, and I did have fun!
Phelon
Very interesting looks; I like them all. The shadow that goes with the girl was fun to see how it worked out in the different backgrounds, and therefore, in my mind, I'm trying to reconstruct the pictures. May I guess on the shadow? 1. The picture of the girl came with her shadow and had a white background and showed a light demarcation of the joining of wall and floor. 2. The background area was selected all around the girl using SPE Select Area. 3. SPE Effects was then used choosing Area 1 (Background), and this gave a wide selection of backgrounds to choose from. 4. A choice was made using this same routine for each picture. 5. Now the tricky part: you erased away the area over the shadow/s (girl and wall) and applied some area saturation, etc. over the central shadow (especially the reddish/orange background).
On the first picture, I can see a little lighter area on the right-side of her head--quite effective painting.
This was fun to think about, and I know you don't mind the reconstruction guessing. That's what we all have to do when making any of our "works".
Your pictures were put together in a nice montage; very nicely presented. Some people can learn how easy this all becomes in SPE. There may be a different way to construct your pictures, but I did enjoy, and I did have fun!
Phelon
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Re: Variations & the Power of SPE
by andrewb2012 » Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:28 pm
Hi eadams,
Glad you found these variations inspirational - that's why I posted them. What would excite me most would be to see HOW they've inspired you and indeed what you come up with in terms of your own artwork! Thanks for your constant encouragement and comments - much appreciated.
Regards,
Andrew.
Glad you found these variations inspirational - that's why I posted them. What would excite me most would be to see HOW they've inspired you and indeed what you come up with in terms of your own artwork! Thanks for your constant encouragement and comments - much appreciated.
Regards,
Andrew.
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Re: Variations & the Power of SPE
by andrewb2012 » Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:48 pm
Hi my dear friend Phelon,
You laid before me almost exactly my process in making the variations - well de-constructed! The original image did indeed have a line of demarcation right on the bend of the shadow and I decided to leave a little hint of it in the images - so yes the stock image already had the shadow. Your are bang on as to how made my selection and mask. Then, as you say, I trolled some of the available effects and chose a number of them that had some sort of appeal. Obviously, once I applied a background effect and saved the image, I deleted that effect and replaced it with another altering the mask to suit my needs. I did very little adjustment to the shadow and area that was heavily saturated was simply the blending that took place using master and hue sliders. In the first image the effect used was a 'moonlight' effect and I chose it because the light fell in just the right place behind the girl's head.
It is FUN to think about how images are created in SPE, but as you suggest there are other ways of doing things - you could achieve very similar results using the Montage and Composite features.
One thing that I think is important - I think that GENERALLY you have to see the possibilities (the end results) in your mind's eye before actually combining effects to produce results although it is possible to stumble upon such results.
One thing that might not have been apparent is that in images 1 & 2, in fact, two combined background effects were applied and masks altered as required.
10/10 - top marks for your DECONSTRUCTION!
You might find my blog article http://www.smartphotoeditor.com/AndrewBuchanan/?p=162 of interest as I explain one of my approaches to making photo-art.
Regards,
Andrew
You laid before me almost exactly my process in making the variations - well de-constructed! The original image did indeed have a line of demarcation right on the bend of the shadow and I decided to leave a little hint of it in the images - so yes the stock image already had the shadow. Your are bang on as to how made my selection and mask. Then, as you say, I trolled some of the available effects and chose a number of them that had some sort of appeal. Obviously, once I applied a background effect and saved the image, I deleted that effect and replaced it with another altering the mask to suit my needs. I did very little adjustment to the shadow and area that was heavily saturated was simply the blending that took place using master and hue sliders. In the first image the effect used was a 'moonlight' effect and I chose it because the light fell in just the right place behind the girl's head.
It is FUN to think about how images are created in SPE, but as you suggest there are other ways of doing things - you could achieve very similar results using the Montage and Composite features.
One thing that I think is important - I think that GENERALLY you have to see the possibilities (the end results) in your mind's eye before actually combining effects to produce results although it is possible to stumble upon such results.
One thing that might not have been apparent is that in images 1 & 2, in fact, two combined background effects were applied and masks altered as required.
10/10 - top marks for your DECONSTRUCTION!
You might find my blog article http://www.smartphotoeditor.com/AndrewBuchanan/?p=162 of interest as I explain one of my approaches to making photo-art.
Regards,
Andrew
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