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The quick process (it took way longer to type this than to do it) of how I got Roxy to obey me. It really helped to start with a strong image that was quite symmetrical.
1. Select and copy and paste onto a new layer the left 1/2 of the photo because of the clarity of her eye and the absence of stray hairs. This ended up being easier than using the healing brush to remove the hairs and trying to manually fix her blurry left eye.
2. Flip the copied image and place it over top of the opposite side.
3a. On the copied layer, start erasing with a bit of a feather to the brush areas so that the original lighting remains as much of the original image remains to not look copied.
3b. Erase the copied eye and use the reflection from the original left eye.
3c. Retain the original nose, mouth, and Roxy's famous nose part.
4. Clone a bit of the fur on her shoulder to create a look slightly different than the opposite side.
5. use the Dodge tool to brighten up the whites of her eyes.
Flatten the image, resize it, and do a quick Curve adjustment to brighten it a bit and add a touch of contrast (I have no idea how to describe that properly).
It ends up being like one of those comparison cartoons that you have to figure out what's different but in this case what's different from side to side and what's the same.
The original picture was shot with a Canon Rebel XT and a Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS lens (I'll be ranting about this lens for some time to come).
The camera was set to 1600 ISO to allow for the poor lighting at the daycare, 1/80 sec shutter @ f/4 with the image stabilizing on which wasn't fast enough to avoid blur in the original image but did allow the detail in her fur to come out.
A manual white balance was done by shooting a white piece of paper taped to a pillar in the middle of the room (remind me to take it down).
I had taken some pictures and took them in for developing but they were cross processed by accident. These results were better than if the developer had done things right. A happy accident indeed!
Post Processing a bland photograph into a high impact , high contrasted image with lots of texture. self portrait taken just to work on this technique of post work.
Playing with the Hemesh and Convex Hull by Lee Byrons library. Starting Point is the Hemesh Voronoi example. The voronoi cells are subdivided and then slices of the vertices are sent to the convex hull algorithm.
They are abviously inspired by jtnimoys awesome work for the tron movie.
Check it out at Openprocessing:
Process pictures of a sculpture involving an octopus and a tiki...the resin starts to turn yellow and it gets hotter as it sets...
The image "Jupiter Little Spot Original" optimized using BNIP Pro - many details, only faintly visible become distinct
This may drive purists up the wall. Apologies beforehand.
I've recently learned about the language processing, where you can write your own visual scripts. Fairly cool stuff. This is a "filter" that basically takes an image and creates a "Chuck Close" version of it using circles and squares.
Nothing cooler than writing your own software to manipulate an image. Kind of like artistic hacking.
The tagline was used by an actual dairy somewhere. I just added the banner and the cow's 'stache. It all seemed to fit in the zeitgeist of that time. 'Greater production for the glorification of the Reagan Youth' and all that sort of thing.