That is a truly amazing image. I am indeed impressed at how you did it as well. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > Darren - > > The PUG image was cropped a little from the right - the original was printed > full frame for a birthday card for my daughter and included my logo in the > lower right and the text "Don't go bananas just because it's your birthday". > > Here's how it was done - eight layers in PSE... > > The fork and banana were shot separately on a black background. The primary > image was the fork and the background wasn't a pure enough black so I > created a a copy layer, turned the original image layer off, removed the > background, put an empty layer below it and filled it w/black. The > saturation on the fork was increased as far as it would go to bring out the > colors, then the right hand tine was selected, cut and moved to a new layer. > The free transform tool was used to bend that tine and the end of it was > selected, cut and pasted to a new layer so I could adjust how much would > stick out of the banana. Whew!! > > The background of the banana image was also removed, the banana copied to > yet another layer in the original fork image and resized, moved, and rotated > using the transform tool until I was happy with how it looked. The text and > my logo were added as the top two layers. > > I put the original psd here if you would like to see it in all its layered > glory. It's about 10MB : >) > > http://studio1941.com/bananas/fork&banana_edited-1.psd > > -p > > > > On 4/9/2012 6:57 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> >> The image that struck me (at small size) the most, and the one I still >> have the most questions about (as in "i'm intruigued" is "Don't Go >> Bananas" by Paul Sorenson. I'd love to know more about how that was >> made, Paul (and why). >> >> Really nice work by all. >> > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
