Thursday, 14 March 2013

Refining Edges

 This is what we started off with
 then we selected the region we wanted to work with and Clicked Refine edges
 Then we gave it a white background and the n clicked smart radius
Then we gave a region for transparency  e.g. tips of hair then we put it on a output with a new layer with layer mask,
Then this is the final image


B.Sedgeman.


Horse

First we selected the region we wanted
Then we clicked edit, fill
Then made sure content aware was selected and then clicked ok
after it rendered this is was the final Image



Matte Painting


Matte Painting Definition:



Matte painting is a technique often used to create landscapes, sets and scenes for movies, TV and print when building a physical set or travelling to a particular location to film is either cost prohibitive or impossible. This technique requires a solid understanding of light, exposure, color theory and composition. Artist will often use a mix of digital painting, compositing and Photoshop magic to create the wonderful scenes we all enjoy in films.



References: http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/40-matte-painting-masterpieces.html



Dylan Cole:


Dylan Cole is an art director, concept artist, and matte painter who specializes in film, video games, and commercials. The southern California native always had a love for drawing. Initial interest in comic book art gave way to matte painting and concept design after he saw the Art of Star Wars books. Dylan attended UCLA as a fine art major where he continued to draw and paint traditionally.
A summer internship at ILM opened his eyes to the digital world that he had been avoiding. Within a year and a half of graduating from UCLA, Dylan was off to New Zealand to be a senior matte painter for Return of the King. Since then, Dylan has contributed art to over 50 films including Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, and Tron Legacy.
Dylan enjoys teaching workshops at various events and schools around the world and has a line of instructional DVDs from the Gnomon Workshop. He was one of the co-authors of Ballistic's d'artiste: Matte Painting, and recently had the first solo exhibition of his work at the Gnomon Gallery in Hollywood, CA.




Some of Dylan Cole's work, on the film "TRON Legacy" 




Dylan Cole's work from the Biggest Blockbuster of 2009 "Avatar":

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Photo filter Research


JPEG.

In computing, JPEG (pron.: /ˈdʒeɪpɛɡ/ jay-peg) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital photography (image). The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.
JPEG compression is used in a number of image file formats. JPEG/Exif is the most common image format used by digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices; along with JPEG/JFIF, it is the most common format for storing and transmitting photographic images on the World Wide Web.[citation needed] These format variations are often not distinguished, and are simply called JPEG.
The term "JPEG" is an acronym for the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the standard. The MIME media type for JPEG is image/jpeg (defined in RFC 1341), except in Internet Explorer, which provides a MIME type ofimage/pjpeg when uploading JPEG images.
It supports a maximum image size of 65535×65535.                             

Wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG



TIFF

TIFF (originally standing for Tagged Image File Format) is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems. Originally created by the company Aldus for use with "desktop publishing", the TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications. Adobe Systems, which acquired Aldus, now holds the copyright to the TIFF specification. TIFF has not had a major update since 1992, though several Aldus/Adobe technical notes have been published with minor extensions to the format, and several specifications, including TIFF/EP (ISO 12234-2), TIFF/IT (ISO 12639), TIFF-F (RFC 2306) and TIFF-FX (RFC 3949) have been based on the TIFF 6.0 specification.




GIFF.

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; /ˈdʒɪf/ or /ˈɡɪf/) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel thus allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colours. The colours are chosen from the 24-bit RGB colour space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colours for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing colour photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality. This compression technique was patented in 1985. Controversy over the licensing agreement between the patent holder, Unisys, and CompuServe in 1994 spurred the development of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) standard. All the relevant patents have now expired.





PSD.

Photoshop files have default file extension as .PSD, which stands for "Photoshop Document." A PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, CMYK Mode (used for commercial printing), transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g. .JPG or .GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality. A PSD file has a maximum height and width of 30,000 pixels, and a length limit of 2 Gigabytes.
Photoshop files sometimes have the file extension .PSB, which stands for "Photoshop Big" (also known as "large document format"). A PSB file extends the PSD file format, increasing the maximum height and width to 300,000 pixels and the length limit to around 4 Exabytes. The dimension limit was apparently chosen arbitrarily by Adobe, not based on computer arithmetic constraints (it is not close to a power of two, as is 30,000) but for ease of software testing. PSD and PSB formats are documented.
Because of Photoshop's popularity, PSD files are widely used and supported to some extent by most competing software. The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe's other apps like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and the web. Photoshop's primary strength is as a pixel-based image editor, unlike vector-based image editors. Photoshop also enables vector graphics editing through its Paths, Pen tools, Shape tools, Shape Layers, Type tools, Import command, and Smart Object functions. These tools and commands are convenient to combine pixel-based and vector-based images in one Photoshop document, because it may not be necessary to use more than one program. To create very complex vector graphics with numerous shapes and colors, it may be easier to use software that was created primarily for that purpose, such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW. Photoshop's non-destructive Smart Objects can also import complex vector shapes.





PNG.

Portable Network Graphics (PNG pron.: /ˈpɪŋ/ ping) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was created as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).
PNG supports palette-based images (with palettes of 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA colors), grayscale images (with or without alpha channel), and full-color non-palette-based RGB images (with or without alpha channel). PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics, and therefore does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK.
PNG files nearly always use file extension PNG or png and are assigned MIME media type image/png; it was approved for this use by the Internet Engineering Steering Group on 14 October 1996. PNG was published as an ISO/IEC standard in 2004.







Fixing up an Old Fashioned Photograph

I Created a Photoshop speed art showing how I created this demo to save the time of me Copying and pasting pictures and writing a little bit about it:


Also to add the colour I:
Duplicated the background layer and set it as an RGB Image instead of a grey scale, Select a region that I want to colour
Then I clicked on the Colour balance, and messed with the colours a bit
Then That's How I got the final image.


Thursday, 24 January 2013

3D Demo

Original Image

First we changed the curves for a Blue layer Red 0, 255 green 0, 251 and the Red layer Blue 0, 255
Then we Moved the top layer slightly to the Right or left  TEHE TEHE ( depending on what layer the colours are on )

Final Result:



My Version:
   Image Number 1
Image Number 2

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Oliver Ottner

Oliver Ottner was born in 1974 and lives in Vienna, Austria. In 1999, he founded the advertising agency iService, which works for clients such as Estée Lauder and the famous Vienna Zoo. His private works, such as his naturemorphosis and dualism series, as well as original Photoshop tutorials, can be found on his personal site www.effectlab.com. Oliver has been a National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) member since 2001, and his work has been recognized in various photography and digital art publications, including Computer Arts.


reference: http://www.naturemorphosis.com/

reference: http://www.naturemorphosis.com/


My Version of Oliver Ottner's work:

I based this off the Leaf Woman image that Oliver Ottner created.But instead of leafs, I used Fire and cracked stone to give it a really warm feel.