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Posted on 18/10/10 5:36:11 PM |
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aschiewe
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How do they do this
If you go this site http://www.christophehuet.com/ , you will notice a few compos with tramps that are part of the ground with some riplling effect around it. I am sure they changed the surface of the ground but its so realistic its crazy..I am sure there must be a fair of work involved in this... Any ideas on how they did this ? Andrew ps: By the way his stuff is amazing...the melting effect pictures hes got on there are eye boggling... |
Posted on 18/10/10 9:24:51 PM |
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Royal
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Re: How do they do this
Not sure how he does it but that is some truly amazing work. A few pieces of them I have seen before and always wondered what work went into them. The making of part as a video is very good, ill be going back to that site for inspiration when I can actually do good things on photoshop, just dreaming and looking at others' work for now though. |
Posted on 19/10/10 07:34:04 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: How do they do this
Indeed - beautiful work. No real 'trick' to this, it's just painstakingly done. I think there might be a Friday Challenge in this, so thanks for bringing it to our attention! |
Posted on 19/10/10 3:39:11 PM |
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Kuham
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Photorealistic help
Am on this project, am having problem making it look real. Please help me figure out what I need to do to make it look professional. Am sure somethings are missing here. Thanks Kuham  |
Posted on 19/10/10 4:25:48 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: How do they do this
There are four main problems here. 1. THe background has a strong blue tint, which doesn't match the people. Use Curves to add some red. 2. The people are very large compared to the sign - look at that yellow bollard just next to the poster, that should be around waist height. 3. Perspective, perspective! Move the man in the foreground up so his eyes are on the same line as everyone else, and it will all work much better. 4. Perspective again! The queue of people is receding at a strong perspective angle, but it doesn't match the angle of the buildings behind. You should be able to use Free Transform to straighten them up a little. One final thing... the man in the foreground is looking out of the scene. Flip him horizontally so he has some interest in what's going on! |
Posted on 19/10/10 5:11:11 PM |
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Kuham
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Re: How do they do this
Hi Steve, Thanks for been there. I'll effect the corrections and get back to you. Thanks once again. Kuham |
Posted on 19/10/10 5:34:13 PM |
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Kuham
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Re: How do they do this
Hi Steve and all, Sorry about this, please is there anything to do to make this idea(project) better, have done my best. Thanks Kuham  |
Posted on 19/10/10 5:56:56 PM |
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Carlo Alessandro Della Valle
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Re: How do they do this
Hi there! I think (from my perspective) that you should try to keep the fonts more coerents each other... or to use the same font for every sentence at all. and you should also change the phone's reflection, the perspective (i think is wrong). I hope everything is clear because my english is really bad! cheers Alessandro |
Posted on 19/10/10 6:53:03 PM |
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Eggbox
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Re: How do they do this
Further to Andrew's post at the top I was intrigued and couldn't resist. Lots of refinements missing but one has to start somewhere. Ted 
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Posted on 25/10/10 3:33:17 PM |
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aschiewe
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Re: How do they do this
Nice one Ted...like what you have done so far... |
Posted on 27/10/10 07:02:47 AM |
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vicho
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Re: How do they do this
well I would say some massive use of the Liquify tool there  |
Posted on 27/10/10 11:52:27 AM |
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Eggbox
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Re: How do they do this
Hi Vicho, No Liquify tool here. In this example the girl in blue was cut out from the background and then masked out to the depth of the desired sinking effect. Then placed on the background. Ted  |
Posted on 27/10/10 11:53:32 AM |
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Eggbox
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Re: How do they do this
The finished result with a little extra tweaking. Ted 
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Posted on 27/10/10 2:14:11 PM |
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aschiewe
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Re: How do they do this
Hi Ted, i agree with your principle as i have tried it myself but its the little tweaking and slight ripple effect that is amazing...I have tried displacement maps, filters , dodge and burn...i cant seem to make it realistic like on the site...i might be missing one major element...TALENT...LOL... Andrew |
Posted on 28/10/10 2:19:01 PM |
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dejá_vu
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Re: How do they do this
It's a great challenge. 
I've seen the pictures and I've tried to do my best, working with dodge and burn tools, and making a reduced selection around the lying man, so it seems he's a little dug into the asphalt. I don´t believe that displacement maps helps here because the texture is so tiny and random that the displacemente wouldn't be obvious enough to worth the effort. Probably it's only a matter of patient drawing shadows and highlits over the floor, and erasing some parts of the body so as to create the illusion of volume on the ground waves. Here's my attempt: 
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Posted on 29/10/10 08:53:43 AM |
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aschiewe
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Re: How do they do this
whoouahh..i am impressed by your attempt...well done !!! was the rippling achieved with dodge and burn ? |
Posted on 29/10/10 08:56:12 AM |
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aschiewe
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Re: How do they do this
sorry just realised you already said you used dodge and burn... |
Posted on 29/10/10 10:38:51 AM |
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dejá_vu
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Re: How do they do this
No problem
Yes, all the work has been made only with dogde, burn, and eraser tools indeed. I have attached a mask layer to the "body" layer in order to hide some parts of the body. Perhaps there is a thousand ways to do this, but this worked for me. I owe a Graphic Tablet Wacom, so it helps a lot on using brushes.
_________________ There are men who fight one day, and are good men. There are men who fight a year, and they are better. There are men who fight many years, and they are very good. But there are men who fight all over their lifes. Those are the indispensable. Bertold Brecht |
Posted on 29/10/10 2:01:17 PM |
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aschiewe
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Re: How do they do this
Wacom rules..I have the Intuos 3 which replaced my trusty Bamboo can't do without them now..anyway enough technical talk i will try again and maybe be more patient this time....and at the same time work on this week's challenge... Andrew |
Posted on 29/10/10 3:27:06 PM |
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dejá_vu
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Re: How do they do this
We will face at the challenge, muahaahahahaa
good luck!
_________________ There are men who fight one day, and are good men. There are men who fight a year, and they are better. There are men who fight many years, and they are very good. But there are men who fight all over their lifes. Those are the indispensable. Bertold Brecht |
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