Self-Portrait Holiday Photo -- Part VIII, Post-Production

Earlier I made a reference to "fixing it in post". This used to be an

old joke when I was a stunt woman

back in the day. There is a lot you can do in post-production - you can

add or take away sound, you can add dramatic music, you can edit, do

CGI, all kinds of things to "fix" what at the times looks like it might

not be good enough.

 

Well, suffice it to say, I had a lot of post-production work ahead of

me. After sweating for over 2 hours in a full-length latex dress, I

hadn't even begun to the really hard work.

 

Thanks to the wonderful and expert advice of this very talented guy,

Eric Jeschke , I was able to

completely replace my ugly bed sheet background and put what appears to

be a photo studio mottled blue background. Doesn't it make a phenomenal

difference? This is the vision I had from the start. It took me about an

hour to follow Eric's tutorial, but about 4 solid hours to make the

image mask. That meant zooming into the photo at about 800X its normal

size and going over every inch of my body, pixel by pixel, saving often.

 

I'm proud as hell of this result, and now you know the same tricks of

the trade. I could have probably just gone to Sears and paid $19.95, but

what fun would that have been?

Done