Monday, June 1, 2015

I saw Will James share this picture and muse that he might try it as a watercolor. I had almost the same thought and decided to try a little experiment.

I saw Will James share this picture and muse that he might try it as a watercolor. I had almost the same thought and decided to try a little experiment.
I used LunaPic/Reflecting Water and then cropped out the top half and flipped the animated part and saved it.
I reloaded his original  and then scissored out the parts I wanted to see rippling. and then Blended Two Images. All I had to do then was Reverse them and line them up to get this.
I know that all sounds sort of complicated. After all - this was just a fun little experiment, undertaken on a whim and really just to see if I could do it. Well, I guess I could and it certainly was and I'd be glad to hear about if if anybody can improve on the process.

5 comments:

  1. Awesome. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when we met a year or so ago, you couldn't do this kind of work. Right? Yes, it does sound complicated to me.

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  2. I'm still learning and what I did here wasn't too difficult. It sounds harder that it was.

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  3. ted kelly I don't have the mind for it. The processing end of the art I'm really weak in. I'm concentrating more on the camera stuff because I can get my head around it. I realise I need both but I feel like my head is gonna explode sometimes. I'm still screwing up my LR catalog! UGH!

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  4. I know what you mean. I still can't get much done with GIMP or LightZone but I'm feeling a little better with Snapseed and Pixlr. 
    You might like the One Minute GIMP videos that Tessi Lamour has. There aren't many so far but they're actually one minute or less.I can't tag her in here but let me know if you want to see one, I'll send you a link.

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