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Posted on 25/07/25 09:04:02 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5748 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1063: Two kings
Correction: in the final image they don't overlap in the distance. I reduced the number of statues from my first attempt and spaced them out more. But you can still see clearly the diminishing offset. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 25/07/25 1:13:54 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3297 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1063: Two kings
Just a photoshop.london character. Had fun with the bucking version, thanks Steve! |
Posted on 25/07/25 4:22:06 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 948 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1063: Two kings
Thank you marine. AI, yes and no. I first posed the Daz 3D model of King and son that appears in the last image. I then found a suitable photo of Harlech Castle perched on a hillside. I found another photo with wildflowers suitable for a Welsh countryside, spliced the castle and flowers together and prompted the image through AI to get the background image. After many attempts, the AI produced an image with it's own horse and rider in the field of flowers. I cloned him out and added the 3D Daz model of the King and son. The King and rider were still too attached to the castle. I wanted to offer more distance between them. (Like leaving a bad situation behind. Although it fades, it is still dominantly there  so I added a field blur to try and achieve that. I tweaked the image in camera raw after colour matching the 2 together, used the smudge tool and fade to seat the horse's hooves into the meadow, to give the impression that the horse is in the field.
I find it quite an emotional picture. Not a nice situation to find yourself in. _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 25/07/25 4:22:46 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 948 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1063: Two kings
Thank you, Steve. A nice image to apply a defined pattern and bevel and emboss. Do any of you still use that. I do, often. Lovely images everybody. _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 26/07/25 11:54:04 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3117 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1063: Two kings
Dennis, thanks for the lengthy explanation. Some of it was a bit beyond me, but no matter. I only use Ai to speed up object extraction, but the pen tool is still the best for that. |
Posted on 26/07/25 11:31:21 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 948 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1063: Two kings
Nothing beats the good old ways. The ones that may be slow but are trusty. I always manually edit my images at some point. Photoshop is my spit and polish. Like you, an auto select or AI masking doesn't always get the crisp corner or arch that I want so I use the old trusty tools. Measure twice, cut once...lol. I'm sure you can relate to that. _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 30/07/25 12:09:55 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1761 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1063: Two kings
Thanks Steve. |
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