Photoshop how to?

BBonesBBones Registered Users Posts: 580 Major grins
edited December 12, 2005 in Finishing School
How does one go about making something like this?

http://www.racerxill.com/pages/news/images/Double_100405.jpg

I have many crash sequences that customers would like to have a single image like this instead of buying "a flip book"

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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    A couple ideas
    BBones wrote:
    How does one go about making something like this?

    http://www.racerxill.com/pages/news/images/Double_100405.jpg

    I have many crash sequences that customers would like to have a single image like this instead of buying "a flip book"
    If the camera is on a tripod and not moving during the sequence and you set a fixed manual exposure and don't zoom between shots, then it's just a matter of a rough selection around each bike image and then pasting them all into one of the originals. Since the background isn't moving and is aligned from one to the next, the cut/paste is easy and doesn't have to be very exact.

    If the camera is moving, then it's a lot more time consuming. The only way I know of to do it then is to painstakingly extract the bike and biker from each image (with no background) and paste them all on top of one master image, positioning each one manually. When parts of the background show through semi-transparent objects like through the wheel spokes, it can be even more difficult.

    This particular one looks like a very poor copy/paste job as you can see lots of paste seams in the background (ground and sky), but it is a neat effect in general.

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  • StevenVStevenV Registered Users Posts: 1,174 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    It looks like one background shot and a whole lot 'o layers.
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  • XO-StudiosXO-Studios Registered Users Posts: 457 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    BBones wrote:
    How does one go about making something like this?

    http://www.racerxill.com/pages/news/images/Double_100405.jpg

    I have many crash sequences that customers would like to have a single image like this instead of buying "a flip book"
    Like the others said, this specific one is very doable, just a LOT of work. The diting in yoru example is pretty sloppy, so I would say about 2-3 hrs per picture even for that quality.

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    it's not too hard. as the others explained, shoot from a tripod, and just do some erasing on layers even.

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  • BBonesBBones Registered Users Posts: 580 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    Nuts, while on the track I have to shoot free hand in order to switch up angles or catch the flukes

    This is an example:
    http://studio819.smugmug.com/gallery/848709

    Obviously the images are not the best quality size I set my speeds manually and a crashing bike moves much slower then an upright bike so the images tend to get blurry. Most racers don't care though, they want to see the crash and I wanted to see if it were possible to recreate such an image easily enough to provide them with one single shot to frame.
  • XO-StudiosXO-Studios Registered Users Posts: 457 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    BBones wrote:
    Nuts, while on the track I have to shoot free hand in order to switch up angles or catch the flukes

    This is an example:
    http://studio819.smugmug.com/gallery/848709

    Obviously the images are not the best quality size I set my speeds manually and a crashing bike moves much slower then an upright bike so the images tend to get blurry. Most racers don't care though, they want to see the crash and I wanted to see if it were possible to recreate such an image easily enough to provide them with one single shot to frame.
    Problem with your shot is that there is not all that much common area to allow for transition of one shot into the next, you would try a really long panorama shot, but even that would be challenged. The other thing, and this is for future reference is the diagonal orientation, that doesn't help either.

    FWIW,

    XO,
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  • XO-StudiosXO-Studios Registered Users Posts: 457 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    XO-Studios wrote:
    Problem with your shot is that there is not all that much common area to allow for transition of one shot into the next, you would try a really long panorama shot, but even that would be challenged. The other thing, and this is for future reference is the diagonal orientation, that doesn't help either.

    FWIW,

    XO,
    Ok couldn't help myself, last couple of shots have too much overlap, too much going on. PM me for the PSD
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  • XO-StudiosXO-Studios Registered Users Posts: 457 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2005
    XO-Studios wrote:
    Ok couldn't help myself, last couple of shots have too much overlap, too much going on. PM me for the PSD
    perhaps this works better, there is mroe to be done, but concept should be clear
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  • DRT-MaverickDRT-Maverick Registered Users Posts: 476 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2005
    Sorry, a little off topic. Was that person okay?
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  • BBonesBBones Registered Users Posts: 580 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2005
    Wow, that second one is great, if you have that saved as a "big 'un" I'd love to get my hands on it. Much better then what I did (more along the lines of the first one but even prints as a 16x20 made it "thmbnail-y")


    And yes, she was a little shaken since it spun her, but after a shifter peg replacement she was back on the track that same afternoon
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