Photoshop :: Create Reflection Of Shaky Light And Further Improve Quality Of Superimposing
Mar 16, 2012
I have 2 problems that I'm trying to solve.
1) on the attached, how do I produce the effect of the shaky light on the brick floor that can be seen on the 2 lights in background behind the swimming pool (tried shadow effects option)
2) the fire on the left hand side (in front) still looks too superimposed, even though I've tried some of the things I was advised to do on a similar post (adjust vibrant mid tones, use burn tool etc).
I have some VHS tapes from the 80-90's of my Mum. I have imported these onto my PC. I would like to improve the quality when viewed on a modern TV. Can I do this in VSX5 or is there another way?
I have a few images that are essentially line drawings (B&W) that I want to make larger for presentation (i.e., click for larger size) on our new Website. The current size is not large enough. Â If I increase pixel sizes, the quality is terrible. For example, see:
[URL]....on our 'test Website'. [Please note Website is work-in-progress.]  Settings *jpg: Width - 270; Height - 138; Scale styles - Y; Constrain proportions - Y; Resample image - Bicubic  If I increase *jpg to Width - 450; Height - 230, I get UGLY.  When I Save for Web as *gif, I change Width - 450; Height - 230, it still appears fuzzy, although not as much.
Our customers have given us some black and white Monochrome Bitmap images at 400 ppi (see attached sample) and 600 ppi of some scanned black and white engineering drawings. Some of the small text on the drawings is not very legible because open areas are filled in with black. Some of the vertical and horizontal lines are ragged (digitized) on the edges. Is there any way that I can improve the visual quality of these Monochrome Bitmap images in Corel Draw (which I use) or Corel Paint (of which I'm not very knowledgeable, or adept)?
I find myself at odds with the lack of quality in the Softimage viewport when viewing a scene that has objects placed out in the 11,000 unit range. I am building a large city for a game and it must be to scale, but working from a distance is hard because of the constant flickering and depth issues. Select triangles from objects hundreds of units behind another start appearing in front. This creates a garbled mess of triangles and black backfaces. Judging the overall shape and composition from a distance is critical for a game city, but this cannot be done. I have tried different modes, but there is no real difference aside from a huge FPS drop. After using 3DS Max and Maya, I greatly admire Softimage, and this is the first real issue I have with it.
How to improve the viewport quality at huge scales?
4705.sample2.tifOur customers have given us some black and white .tif Monochrome Bitmap images at 400 ppi (see attached sample) and 600 ppi of some scanned black and white engineering drawings. Some of the small text on the drawings is not very legible because open areas are filled in with black. Some of the vertical and horizontal lines are ragged (digitized) on the edges. Is there any way that I can improve the visual quality of these Monochrome Bitmap images in Corel Draw (which I use) or Corel Paint (of which I'm not very knowledgeable, or adept)?
White LEDs are currently not a great way to illuminate your prints because they are not near full spectrum light sources. Most "white" LEDs are currently blue or violet LEDs with a green or yellow phosphor added to look neutral - but they have very little light in other areas (especially red). Some high end white LEDs are getting closer to full spectrum - but those are only recently available, and are not yet widespread.  Cheap fluorescent lamps tend to have a few "spikes" of light and have some wavelengths almost entirely missing. "Full Spectrum" Fluorescent lights are getting better, and cheaper - but are still not comparable in quality to tungsten or daylight.
Spectra measured with X-Rite ColorMunki and Argyll CMS spotread utility. Multiple readings averaged, normalized and plotted in Microsoft Excel.
I am using w7, x64 bit, illustrator. I am creating an owl. Only one side, for I am trying to reflect the right side to complete the whole owl. But, the reflections are not perfect. View this file, what I can do to perfect my idea? URL...
I am trying to make a gag Christmas gifts for my friends and take their heads and put them on the A Team's bodies (don't ask)
I am having trouble matching the colors and the sizes of their heads onto the picture of the A-Teams body! If anyone can help me, i would really really appreciate it! I want to have mugs made for them for Christmas!
I will receive a 2D object and a normal pass. And from that I need to create some shperical image that will be mapped on to the image without being in 3D space. I know it's somehow possible in Fusion using some global pointers. Is something similar possible in Smoke?
Smoke 2012 SAP2 SP4 and Smoke 2013 SP2 (Smoke Classic Keyboard Shortcuts) Mac Pro 4,1 OS X 10.6.7 12 GB RAM NVIDIA Quadro 4000 14 TB RAID (Areca)
i just recently got a Wacom Graphire4 tablet, absolutely love it. my only problem is when i draw with it my lines are just a little "shaky". its just barley noticeable, is there a filter or something i can try doing to clean things up a bit? i like the pictures i just want them to look a little more professional.
Today's challenge was to create an artificial reflection beneath an irregularly shaped object.
In the past I've been asked to add reflections where the reflection is simply a plane that cuts horizontally across the entire object (example 1), and where the object to be reflected is skewed (example 2) - both operations are pretty straight forward...
Example 3 is the object (a duvet) to which I had to add a floor reflection. I did come up with a solution, which I am reasonably happy with, but would love to see what methods other people use! I guess my attempt is OK because the texture and shape of the duvet is fairly forgiving!
Do you have a better method for these irregular floor reflections?
Example 4 is perhaps the trickiest I can imagine as the entire object is curved and the texture uniform so a bodge job will be very obvious!
Perhaps this can't easily be done in Xara - I imagine it could be painted in a bitmap package or rendered with a 3d package... or photographed with a reflection in the first place!
I recently tried the trial version of photoshop CS6, and the lines I draw in photoshop are more like series of little straight lines. I can draw better lines in Paint Tool SAI with no stabilizer, but no matter what I do in photoshop the resulting lines are finicky.
My (really not that good at all) PC Â i3-550 processor 4 GB DDR3 RAM Intel HD Graphics (no workstation card for me, unfortunately) 500 GB HDD Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium
I am trying to superimpose 2 people together from two separate photos. I have limited knowledge of Photoshop. Would the below steps be the easiest & most effective way of doing this? Â -Import both photos as 2 separate layers -Use magic wand tool to split characters up / delete backgrounds -Place characters on a new background layer -Edit the light of the characters & background to match each other -Degrade/enhance all 3 images to match each other -Touch up edges of characters until blended into background.
I'm going to be editing a series of images, cut from a movie, to make an animated gif. I'll be superimposing the face of one man onto that of another in each individual frame.
I know my way around photoshop (layers, brushes, effects, etc.), and I'm using CS2.
During some frames I will need to awkardly stretch the image of the superimposed face (Connery's) to fit that of the original actor's (Martin Sheen's) -- the frames in which his head is turned to the his right, as can be seen in the image below. There are also frames where the lighting on his face changes and smoke pours over his face. These are my main challenges.
I could use help with the lighting effects (casting shadows over a layer), the military style face paint, and the smoke effects, as well as general guides to photoshop face-transplanting
If a plugin is needed to do any of these, by all means recommend it and any associated tutorials; money is not an issue.
Here are a few sample frames taken that show each stage of the scene (it's the famous head-rising-from-water scene from Apoclaypse Now).
For the face to be superimposed, I will use a source image like these. The lighting is failry uniform, so these should be ripe images for shadow effects (I would like to cast a shadow over the right-hand portion of Connery's face, just as Martin Sheen's is in the movie):
I was wondering if there was any possible way to create volumetric light in photoshop without using 3rd party plug ins. The effect i'm after is an exploding light kind of thing coming from an object in multiple directions...if you don't quite understand i'll post a picture of the effect.
Ive seen a lot of this type of graphics pop up everywhere for sometime now. And i know from the animated clips that a lot of it is done in 3d. But if i were to create it in PS as a still frame, how do you go about making it look the way it does? I can imagine you could do it by creating lines and making copies of it and varying each a little bit, add some color overlays etc etc. And then there is the motion blur effect theyve got on it. Not sure how to go about that, but overall that looks like a lot of hard manual labour.
I'm trying to create or simulate a back light as highlights for a portrate photo. When the picture was taken there is no back light and the picture looks very flat. How or what are some of the methods use to creat back light as highlights for a portrait photo?
I'm trying to create or simulate a back light as highlights for a portrait image. When the picture was taken there is no back light and the picture looks very flat. How or what are some of the methods/tecniques use to creat back light as highlights for a portrait photo?
My problem might be a little more complicated than most problems considered 'beginner', but for all I know about GIMP (which is very little), it could be very simple.
I wish to superimpose text on an image so that the text's color us what color it was superimposed upon. To better explain what I want, take this rainbow image:
[URL]
Say somebody type a large lowercase g near the top left corner of the image. The top circle of the g would be red whereas the bottom circle (or hook depending on the font) would be purple since it dips that far down.
After I finish typing the text, I could save that layer, or cut/copy that text as a new image and save it then.
I am creating an invitation in Illustrator which I then place into photshop to create a JPEG. I want to create a high quality JPEG version of it but with a low file size because I am emailing the invitation. Am I correct in placing the image into photshop or should I export it from Illustrator. The image is built of of vectors and one JPEG but they are not high in quality.
I'm trying to create a "blue glow/light rays" around an image of the planet Earth and I can't just seem to make it look realistic like this image here:
How to do this technique? You can find a planet earth image by searching for NASA BLUE MARBLE and it's free.
When I play video clips back in the playback window, they shake and stutter and give an "after-effect" look to each clip. Looks like mouse trails if you select that in your setup. I am running the program in Windows 8 64 bit, if that matters, but don 't see why it should. When I play the clips in Windows Media player, just to check to see if it is the clips, none of this behavior occurs. Never ran into this one before and I have been with VS since the good old days of version 4.
I rendered a few clips that were doing that into the final MPG format I want and the shakiness is not there once rendered. It can only mean that I have something ticked or un-ticked in my setup of VS Pro 16 Ultimate. It makes it difficult to stitch together the final clips with pinpoint accuracy.
