Getting carried away, as usual...

MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
edited October 12, 2005 in Finishing School
I have never been able to edit any text I've ever written, without changing more than I needed to. Be it a book report or technical manual, every time I have to correct something, new sentences, paragraphs and in some cases chapters pop up.

I've struck again. I took a picture of a door and symbol at a night club, and had trouble getting it exposed without my flash. But if I used the flash, I got the reflection of the flash. So I just said to myself, "Self...just remove the reflection from the image in post!" And so I did...but thennnnnnnnnn, I couldn't just leave well enough alone...

I'll post the result in the next post, Here is the original:

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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    Just can't stop playin' with it...
    ((No sexual innuendo intended..really..seriously! I mean it!))

    Here is the result of my inability to not tinker... I'd like suggestions and comments on how to make it better. I CAN clean up some empty spaces and uneven lines in the logo a little more. It just got tedious doing it with a touch pad on my laptop. Any other ideas?
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    Fragger, now that I'm clear on what it is that you're after, which is Post-processing advice (rather than thoughtful and deep comments and critique--otherwise known as a Whipping), I'm going to move this thread to Digital Darkroom - Software.
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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    DavidTO wrote:
    Whoa, Fragger. Make sure you read the forum rules first! Only one post per customer per week!

    One of us is gonna have to delete one of your images! Better you than me :D
    I'm only asking you to review one post. The other is just so you can see where I came from and that in and of itself my provide fodder for future suggestions. Oh..and being able to post multiple images to one post would help to. I could have merged the images, but then image size would have been horrible.

    MainFragger
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    MainFragger wrote:
    I'm only asking you to review one post. The other is just so you can see where I came from and that in and of itself my provide fodder for future suggestions. Oh..and being able to post multiple images to one post would help to. I could have merged the images, but then image size would have been horrible.

    MainFragger


    Hey, Fragger. What you're asking for is Post-processing advice. Our messages have gotten crossed, and I've moved your thread here. Keep it as is, for this is the proper home for your thread.

    It's all good! What you were asking for is not what the Whipping Post is for, but it IS what THIS thread is for.
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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    MainFragger wrote:
    ((No sexual innuendo intended..really..seriously! I mean it!))

    Here is the result of my inability to not tinker... I'd like suggestions and comments on how to make it better. I CAN clean up some empty spaces and uneven lines in the logo a little more. It just got tedious doing it with a touch pad on my laptop. Any other ideas?
    It looks like you drew it in photoshop yourself rather than a picture. Is that what you're going for? If so, it may actually be easier to trace it with the pen tool and actually draw it for yourself. :shrug
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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    The process...
    Mike Lane wrote:
    It looks like you drew it in photoshop yourself rather than a picture. Is that what you're going for? If so, it may actually be easier to trace it with the pen tool and actually draw it for yourself. :shrug
    Well, what I actually did was get rid of the reflection by using the mhgic wand to highlight the area, the dropper to set the color off of the black and green fields just next to the reflection of my flash, and then filled each section as I magic wand them.

    Ok..I could have left it there, but then the frosted glass and the bubbles on it bothered me, so I cut it out. Then the creases on the emblam decal bothered me, so I either refilled over them with 100 per cent opacity, or cloned them out.

    Then I felt the colors weren't vivid enough, so I refilled it with the most vivid part of the colors from the image original. Then the letters looked boring and dullish to me, so I used a slighter brighter yellow, and then used a glass filter to add something to the letters.

    Then I felt the black dot was boring in the city, so I pasted a circular section of the frosted glass there, and then colored it green and played with the glass filter settings to make it look like an emerald like jewel. Then I did the same for the city itself.

    After that, I just cleaned up a lot of the sloppy sections where the decal had peeled, the colors weren't quite even, and in where there were some scratches with the pain brush. Thats basically it.

    The problem with me drawing this is that I can't draw a strait line with a pen locked against a ruler. If I had to draw that symbol from scratch, It would probably take me a year to do.

    MainFragger
  • bhambham Registered Users Posts: 1,303 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    MainFragger wrote:
    I've struck again. I took a picture of a door and symbol at a night club, and had trouble getting it exposed without my flash. But if I used the flash, I got the reflection of the flash. So I just said to myself, "Self...just remove the reflection from the image in post!" And so I did...but thennnnnnnnnn, I couldn't just leave well enough alone...

    Not sure what type of camera you have and if you could have bounced the flash (if you have a external flash unit capable of this) off the ceiling etc. But taking a picture of something on the wall that has anything reflective in it and having to use a flash is difficult. I think I would have taken my chance underexposing it with no flash and try to lighten it up in post processing.

    Do you have one of the images you tried with no flash.

    It maybe be less time consuming to go take the picture again, considering you want a straight on shot, and I assume since you are posting, you aren't satisfied with the results. Since you said this was at a night club I assume it was at night? If so during the day if the wall exposed to more natural light via windows, skylight, etc? If you could take it during the day and there is some natural light that could be let in from a door, window, etc you may get the result you want.
    "A photo is like a hamburger. You can get one from McDonalds for $1, one from Chili's for $5, or one from Ruth's Chris for $15. You usually get what you pay for, but don't expect a Ruth's Chris burger at a McDonalds price, if you want that, go cook it yourself." - me
  • behr655behr655 Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    Just curious. Is that from some sort of reincarnation of the Emerald City that used to be in Cherry Hill. If you recall, if you are old enough, that after the Latin Casino closed it was Emerald City for a while.


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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    behr655 wrote:
    Just curious. Is that from some sort of reincarnation of the Emerald City that used to be in Cherry Hill. If you recall, if you are old enough, that after the Latin Casino closed it was Emerald City for a while.


    Bear
    I don't know. You can check out http://www.emeraldcityphila.com to find out.

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