Mountain Biking - Making my ride photos all nice and stuff...

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evanatorx
05-24-07, 01:47 PM
Here is the original photo, taken with a point and shoot camera (fit's in saddle bag) :D

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/1706/dsc03563up1.jpg

Here you see the first modification to the photo, I used Photoshop CS3, I started by duplicating the first layer, than applying a motion blur to the direction of the rider. Then I erased the top layer to reveal all the blur from the filtered image below...It is quite easy.

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1455/fastevanam3.jpg

Then this is the final image with touch ups and some vector brushed downloaded off the internet...

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/7762/ridelifepk9.jpg

Try it out to make some cool photos, it's fun!



Photoshop CS3, Free alternative:Gimp

Stacey
05-24-07, 02:12 PM
:beer:
dminor
05-24-07, 03:06 PM
Nice work! Here's another one for ya:

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t162/dminorwa/evanatorx.jpg

evanatorx
05-24-07, 07:27 PM
Awesome! That's nice of you...'

Cool font, and your filters make it look like it's on actual canvas!
TheFlip
05-24-07, 07:56 PM
and your filters make it look like it's on actual canvas!

No, actually it makes it look like he ran the photo through photoshop.
evanatorx
05-24-07, 08:15 PM
nice observation! But why jump to conclusions! Maybee he used gimp! :rolleyes:
dminor
05-24-07, 11:31 PM
Actually I did use PhotoShop. It was a multi-step process. First I applied sharpening twice to clean up the fuzziness some. Then I made a copy of the full layer. Then I clipped you out and deleted the background from layer 2 sitting on top. On layer 2 I pulled the curves a bit, bumped the contrast slightly, then applied some brush-stroke filter (can't remember which now). Then on background layer 1 I applied a motion blur, angled it to the direction of your travel and pulled the blur out some in pixel width (once again, can't remember:o ) . Then I went back and gave a slight motion blur to layer 2 but not too much so I wouldn't lose too much detail. Type was just a text layer that I applied a quick default drop-shadow to. Font is Subway - - similar to yours but not quite - - available on a lot of free font sites. Then it was just a matter of flattening it and resampling for the web.
evanatorx
05-25-07, 01:19 PM
Cool I geuss it is called subway becuase of it's infamous use on NY subways...