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Posted on 05/09/25 07:00:57 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 1070: Play my piano
I visited the new V&A Storehouse in Hackney Wick, East London, last week – an astonishing repository of items that the directors have chosen to open to the public rather than hide away. Absolutely worth a visit if you're ever in the vicinity. Of the many thousands of items on display, none appealed to me as much as this fabulous piano. But if it is a piano, why does it have six pedals? Baffling. Can you release it from captivity and maybe get someone to play it? High res is here.  |
Posted on 05/09/25 12:19:18 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Not AI generated |
Posted on 05/09/25 12:43:43 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3149 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Excellent Ben. And very quick. |
Posted on 05/09/25 1:54:21 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Thank you Michael, I started fiddling as soon as Steve put it up, forgot to have dinner, then finished it. |
Posted on 05/09/25 2:24:06 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Well that's a good start. Apparently quite few of these upright grand pianos were produced, particularly in the eighteenth century in Vienna. They were known as giraffe pianos and were replaced by the horizontal grand as we know it. A bit abut some of the obscurer pedals can be found here. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 05/09/25 5:45:49 PM |
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lwc
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Posted on 05/09/25 8:35:56 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 1070: Piano Lessons
This I suspect will be quite controversial - I built the background and piano /bench using searched and the given image removing the original piano - added some shadows and then used the new harmonize option in beta to harmonize all and then asked AI (Chat GDT) to add a young girl at the keyboard. 
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Posted on 05/09/25 9:56:00 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1070: Piano Lessons
My antipathy towards the distinctive rather too perfect AI look is well known. I suspected AI instantly the moment I saw this. The choice is entirely yours. The important thing is that, quite correctly in my view, you let us know. It's a lovely image Frank but, knowing what you are capable of, I think you could probably have done just as well yourself. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 05/09/25 10:09:57 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
DUET FOR GIRAFFE PIANO AND OCTO BASS It seemed to me that something as tall and unusual as a Giraffe piano needed a tall and equally unusual partner. The instrument you see here is called an Octobass. It is not photoshopped it is quite genuine and stands at 3.48 metres (11 ft 5 in) high! The player has to stand on a small raised podium to reach the levers at the base of the neck which operate the mechanical 'stops' which press on the strings higher up the neck.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 05/09/25 10:11:53 PM |
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DavidMac
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Loyd I only just spotted that you converted it into a pianola. Very neat! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 05/09/25 10:41:57 PM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Thanks David, I agree whole heartedly, I'm not a fan of using Ai and calling it my own but thought i would post to show where this AI is going and what it is capable of. I'm afraid this is not how Steve wants us to cheat in Photoshop. I prefer to do my own work and cheating. But you must admit it creates some amazing results at times. Afraid it is here to stay and expand. |
Posted on 06/09/25 03:33:24 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Take two - I forgot to add the sign re pedals, as Mariner noted - probably did it too quick. Disclosure - I did colorize the human figures from old B&W magazine pages, I added a slight half tone to pull it together. |
Posted on 06/09/25 08:52:33 AM |
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GKB
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Very nice Ben. Excellent lighting. _________________ Whatever you do in life do it with the enthusiasm of a 4-year old in a Batman suit. |
Posted on 06/09/25 10:30:34 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Thanks Gordon. It was an interesting challenge. |
Posted on 06/09/25 11:29:25 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5848 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Fisrt off Ben, what Gordon said. Lovely lighting. Understated but effective. Funnily I preferred it without the pedal instructions. They seem a bit improbable to me and visually I preferred it dark. I often colourise old black and white when I want photographs of period people. The cosplay and costume catalogue pictures are often far too glitzy and posed. I think this is something we all do sometimes. On a very picky note, Steve, as a pianist, is not going to be happy with key size ...............  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 06/09/25 12:13:21 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3366 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Had no choice, she doesn't know how to play a piano.  |
Posted on 06/09/25 12:51:10 PM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Frank your picture is really atmospheric and that's hard to achieve. Well done! I do not use AI and have never visited ChatGBT. Very occasionally I use the Figure Extraction Tool in Affinity Photo, even though the pen tool is better. I fear the intrusive nature of AI when in the hands of the rich and poweerful, which it is already. Just knowing this has caused me to limit my freedom of expression on the internet. |
Posted on 06/09/25 12:56:58 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Thank you for the feedback David, I agree, the first image is more effective. And yes the key size is more like a kids play piano! |
Posted on 06/09/25 2:31:50 PM |
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Ant Snell
Specular Specialist Posts: 585 Reply  |
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Posted on 06/09/25 2:56:43 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3149 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1070: Play my piano
Ant, I think you spelled his name wrong. Did you mean Stevie? |
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