 MLOK5My Reality Check BouncedPremium,MVM
join:2000-08-17
Plano, TX | Technique! Week 5
Welcome to Technique! Week 5. Week 4 is officially closed for new photos. Special thanks to Edit This  for sharing his imaging technique for editing people into photographs. That was a lot of fun to learn!
The goal of this thread is for one of the members of the forum to share a photographic technique with the rest of the forum. Then we can all practice this technique & upload our results. The technique doesn't have to be limited to digital editing. It can be related to other things as well, like exposure, depth-of-field, etc. A good example of a technique thread can be found here.
Who has a technique they'd like to share with the forum?
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| Technique: Isolate the subject then change the background:
Step 1) Select the subject of the image with whatever method you feel comfortable with. I use the Quick Mask mode in Photoshop.
Step 2 Invert the selection.
Step 3) Apply a filter the the inverted selection.
Examples would be a Gaussian blur set a 2.0.
Any artistic filter or brush stroke filter.
A radial blur produces some great effect.
Desaturate to turn the entire image black and white except for the subject.
Let your imagination run wild.
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 MnRPremium
join:2002-05-27
Iron Mountain, MI
kudos:3
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| Hi Hullodare,
I like the technique. I think I prefer the radial blur. One question, Does your photoshop have a Blur/Sharpen Tool? It is not a filter. Also have you tried the Smudge Tool. Here is one that I posted to the Gallery using the Smudge Tool to the backround.
bluwing
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| Yes. It does have the blur/sharpen tool. I like what you did with that car. It looks great. As I said....let your imagination run wild. Nice work bluwing.
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MLOK5My Reality Check BouncedPremium,MVM
join:2000-08-17
Plano, TX | reply to MLOK5
Oh, man, this is so much FUN!!! 
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| Now that is cool Fritty. |
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 TearAbiteD'oh
join:2001-07-25
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
kudos:2 | reply to MLOK5
OLYMPUS C4100Z,C4000Z
9.4mm 1/50th F6.3 ISO100
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I love that pic Fritty!
Here is my attempt..
Hullodare; what/how does the quickmask work?
I did a duplicate layer, then smartlasso'd out the subject, then applied the blur.. is this the 'long way' ?
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MLOK5My Reality Check BouncedPremium,MVM
join:2000-08-17
Plano, TX | reply to MLOK5
Help!! I can't stop!! I'm out of control..!!  |
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 JeffBPremium
join:2001-12-20
Somewhere | Careful there, you're going to make her dizzy and she'll fall  |
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Quick mask selection method....Photoshop 7. Good Luck.
[text was edited by author 2003-08-17 00:37:54] |
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TearAbiteD'oh
join:2001-07-25
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
kudos:2 | reply to MLOK5
OLYMPUS C4100Z,C4000Z
8.8mm 1/40th F9 ISO100
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cool.. i get it!
this was a quick attempt, but with some time and prectice this techniqe can do some great things!
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 splixPremium
join:2002-02-19
Oakton, VA | 
my attempt |
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 dennilfloss Liberal And Loving ItPremium
join:2001-09-09
Ottawa, ON | reply to MLOK5
Queen Victoria. |
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new. strange. |
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dennilfloss Liberal And Loving ItPremium
join:2001-09-09
Ottawa, ON | reply to MLOK5
Eye Candy 4000 Weave filter. |
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I'm very new to Photoshop 7. I don't get it. I tried painting but I don't see the ants.:o
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Canon PowerShot A70
16.2mm 1/250th F4.8
Four!! |
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Canon PowerShot A70
5.4mm 1/60th F2.8
PureSilver |
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| Excellent work blackeyes. |
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| said by Edit This:
Excellent work blackeyes.
I'm starting to get what the effects are all about. By the way, those are pictures of my son, not me.;)
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