Photoshop Masking Technique?
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Dylan,
Your suggestion is a good way to fake shadows (presumably you're going to create a new layer using a mask from the SU shadows?), or (using the same selection) you could try creating a new layer from the background layer and then adjust the lightness, Exposure and/or Gamma of the shadow layer.
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had a go at this with a leaf shaped brush, would need more work.
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It looks nice, Jon (at least in this small thumbnail
don't you have something bigger?) -
Hijack alert:
I've been meaning to ask for ages- how come I see other people posting big attachments all the time, but when I try to attach anything larger than about 500 x 300 px it gets stuffed into a bloody scoll window?
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i've never managed to get the hang of attaching large images myself, but uploading the image to an external site then linking it here with the [img] tag will always work.
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It wouldn't let me post the image at the same size as dylan. I feel inadequate! I tried to post the brush. it's a free one called vine, its actually a gih file(?), works with Gimp, not sure about Photoshop. Scf says the extension is not allowed, if anybody wants it, im me, I'll send it to you.
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I use Photobucket for that when I need to, but it's a pain having to open another site, sign in, upload and copy in links!
Jon/Linea- how did you fix your attachment?
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@jackson said:
Hijack alert:
I've been meaning to ask for ages- how come I see other people posting big attachments all the time, but when I try to attach anything larger than about 500 x 300 px it gets stuffed into a bloody scoll window?
I think if it is WAY larger than the text, a thumbnail is created otherwise it gets stuck into those scrollers.
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jackson I didn't, I posted a different one.
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Dylan,
Possibly the easiest way would be to make a duplicate layer of the background photo, then sandwich the layer containing the canopy between the two identical layers, positioning the canopy correctly. I'd then use the magic wand (or colour range...as Jackson suggests) on the clouds in the top photo layer...set to a reasonable tolerance like 100....select then delete. That ought to leave just the tree showing in the sky area, with the canopy showing through the gaps. You could probably then just sample some of the vignetted leaves and copy them over the bits of canopy that fall in front of the buildings, but behind the tree.
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