Bendigo Camera Club Inc.: August 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

Karijini National Park WA

These are two of the many waterfalls at Karijini NP in WA.
This is also where my Camera went for a swim and where we got a broken front windscreen
on the 4WD which was only a month old at the time.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Blending Three Photos - some tutorials

You might find these useful for the next club competition set subject "Image Combination".
The challenge requires your final image to be made up of three separate images. These images can be overlapping, "cutout" (extracted) or merged (blended).

Here are the three main techniques you might use and some tutorials you might find useful:

Erase (PSE, Photoshop CS)

Erase everything you don’t want - BUT erasing is permanent so you can’t easily undo your changes without starting again from scratch
Face on a Pear
How to Combine Photos Using Photoshop Elements 10 (or earlier versions - uses magnetic lasso)

Clipping Mask (PSE, Photoshop CS)

The mask is a separate layer that you “clip” your image to. In this method
transparent = conceal
everything else = reveal
You can clip multiple layers to the one clipping mask.
Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster simple tutorial

Layer Mask (PSE 9+, Photoshop CS)

This method gives you the most power because mask is added directly to the same layer as the photo.
On the layer mask you use a gradient or paint brush to paint in the areas you do want using white, paint out the areas you don’t want using black (NOT by erasing)

“black conceals and white reveals”.

Photoshop Elements: Creating composite images | lynda.com tutorial youtube
Adding Reflections to Sunglasses - Photoshop Tutorial
Bride and Groom on a Wineglass