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Richard · January 28, 2012

Cornflake · January 28, 2012

Terrific idea, terrific image.

Richard · January 28, 2012

Cornflake wrote: »

Terrific idea, terrific image.

Thanks, Don. Glad you liked it.

wfeller · January 28, 2012

:-)

Bailiejo · January 28, 2012

That's pretty neat.... are you willing to share how you did that?

torags · January 28, 2012

Good concept...

Richard · January 29, 2012

Thanks, guys.

Bailiejo wrote: »

That's pretty neat.... are you willing to share how you did that?

Well, there are two parts to it, one conceptual the other technical.

The concept simply evolved. It started from a single shot I worked up to look like the center pane. That was the original idea. It was sort of cool, but I thought the concept didn't come through strongly enough. So I went back another day and shot a number of series of people walking through the frame, with the idea of doing a triptych. I thought that strengthened the concept, but it wasn't graphically engaging enough, so I added the filmstrip effect and called it done.

Technically, I selected three shots and loaded them into a single Photoshop document on separate layers. I resized the canvas so they would end up side by side. The middle pane illusion was created by aligning two of the images properly, then masking out the top half of the person so that the background was exposed. The film strip came directly from the CS5 Shape Tool collection. I rarely venture into PS's graphical arts tools, so I had to spend a fair amount of time using Free Transform to get all the pieces to be the right size and in the right place. HTH.