DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

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DPNow regular, Paul (aka Pops) provides an unusual Picture of the Day with his 'playing around' special effect that transforms an otherwise ordinary scene. Would you like to show your photos on DPNow's free gallery space and get a chance of being featured on the Picture of the Day feature? Just register on the forum and your gallery space will be instantly available.Ref: 4TFD

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[Stephen]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

Congrats on your POTD Pops. A very impressive effect. You are right about the use of image editors, but frankly I'm not creative enough to come up with ideas like this Oh and I didn't understand a bit of the method

[Ian]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

Congrats on your POTD Pops. A very impressive effect. You are right about the use of image editors, but frankly I'm not creative enough to come up with ideas like this Oh and I didn't understand a bit of the method

I'll have to do a PaintShop Pro to Photoshop translation

And Ron can do a Microsoft or Picasa version too!

Ian

[Pol]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

It can be a very effective method of presenting a picture imo and I reckon Pops did an excellent job with this one!

Pol

[Stephen]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

I'll have to do a PaintShop Pro to Photoshop translation

And Ron can do a Microsoft or Picasa version too!

Ian

Thats a good plan

[Pops]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

I'll have to do a PaintShop Pro to Photoshop translation

And Ron can do a Microsoft or Picasa version too!

Ian

Now there's an assignment if ever I heard one

[Pol]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

Thats a good plan

I reckon would be ideal if Ian would create a tutorial video to demonstrate how it's done. Perhaps he might also include a commentary in the video and post it as a tutorial in software solutions.

Nice one. Thanks Ian!

Pol

[Autumn]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

Congratulations Pops. I really liked this photograph when I first saw it a little while ago.

The idea can be used for lots of things including greetings cards.

Glad you made POTD you deserve it with all your good bird pictures as well.

[lumix]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

I'll have to do a PaintShop Pro to Photoshop translation

And Ron can do a Microsoft or Picasa version too!

Ian

Ok I never shy away from a challenge, so here goes.
Select and edit your picture as you would normally, ie adjust saturation, contrast or what ever you feel needs doing. Here is the image I'm going to work on. Taken by my wife with a Sony P51 2mb camera.



Now with the selection tool draw a box around the area you want to apply this affect to. Once selected copy to clip board. Now invert selection and apply conversion to B&W and add some blur.


Invert selection again and select the transparency tool and apply 100% even to get a clear panel in your image.



Paste the original back over this and adjust size to leave a small margin like so.



Save and job done. If you have Microsoft's Digital Image do give it a go.

[Pol]

Re: DPNow Picture of the day, Wednesday, August 22nd 2007

Nice tutorial there, Ron.

Many thanks for that - much appreciated.

Pol