Photo Share!

[EyelashExtensions]

I was thinking how some people including myself like to share the odd photo. So, I thought why not make a thread where we can showcase and brag a bit. I don't always want to start a whole new thread just for one picture and we have a thread to post pictures of ourselves and challenges that are usually theme specific. Here is my first picture I got this past weekend on a fishing trip. My bf was unloading the 4wheeler when I spotted 2 butterflies, I just slid my finger under its feet and it sat on my finger long enough for me to snap this picture.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0448.jpg


This is my all time favorite picture of my daughter, I absolutely love black and whites with a touch of color.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/May2207079.jpg

[GirlNextDoor]

that pic of your daughter in my opinion would make an excellent art piece or even magazine shot. You caught the moment of innocence perfectly there.

[MaO3]

Beautiful shot of your little girl Lizzardskills, just beautiful.

[EyelashExtensions]

Thanks Object X and Ma03!

[tippikitty]

Great shots.
I wanna know how to make a pic black and white and then make something in it color like you little girl pic. How do you do that?

[EyelashExtensions]

My camera has a special feature on it. I can aim and set what ever color I want to highlight. It is my FAVORITE feature!

[Chako]

One way is to use a magnetic lasso tool to trace the objects perimeter. Then you can invert the selection so that everything else is selected, then turn the photo to black and white. What was originally selected will remain its natural colour.

Here is an example I just did using Photoshop.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/Chako_photo/_MG_6888BW.jpg

[EyelashExtensions]

Thats very cool Chako! I never figured that out with photoshop yet I'm still learning.

[tippikitty]

I also have photoshop and am still learning. Thanks Chako.

[Jackie B]

Where do you get photoshop and how much is it?

[Chako]

You can get Adobe products at any computer store. The larger local stores tend to have them in stock (Staples, Future Shop).

There are 2 versions of Photoshop:
- Photoshop Elements 5. Costs around $150 or less, and is all that the average home user would ever need.

- Photoshop CS3. Costs around $600+, and does far more then Elements can, but most of which is rather directed towards the graphic artist, professional user, etc.

There are alternatives to both programs. Corel makes a nice program called Paint Shop Pro 11 that can compete with CS3 on many levels for around the price of Elements. Microsoft also makes a super easy to use program called Picture It! designed for step by step ease of use. It isn't as good as the other programs though.

[sage]

I was foolin' around with Photoshop a few years back and got this. This is my gurl Chrissy @ Rankin Pow wow, she had her hair all in lil' braids. The paint on her face is in the original pic, I just coloured the beads and dreamcatcher.
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9679/y1pnr8hohhty9bb9exxwsmyti3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[EyelashExtensions]

Thats really nice Sage! I love that picture.

[skibunnie64]

This picture was taken at the Pine Street Marina in early spring
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/skibunnie64/Marina019.jpg

[Chako]

Very nice photo. Very relaxing.

EDIT: Hope you do not mind Lizzardskills....

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/Chako_photo/IMG_04481.jpg

[Little B]

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l284/littleb_27/4c3f0f67.jpg


http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l284/littleb_27/43fead92.jpg







http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l284/littleb_27/c2a5cf4b.jpg









http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l284/littleb_27/fd093295.jpg

[Little B]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chako</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Very nice photo. Very relaxing.

EDIT: Hope you do not mind Lizzardskills....

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/Chako_photo/IMG_04481.jpg </div></div>


Chako, is the a simple tool available somewhere to create this effect. I can't find anything with the software I have from my s5200.

[Babzz]

I love shadow one L'il B
Looks kind of familar to me.. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

[Little B]

ha ha, I wonder who those 2 are? My favourite is the flaming stack, I love the way the cam picked up the heat waves. I just wish I could have got around all the damn wires.

[KRP]

L'il B - I hope you don't mind but I saved one of your pictures and removed the wires, here it is...

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t312/JKnxd/4c3f0f67.jpg

[Chako]

I used Photoshop to do it much like the directions I stated previously. It is rather easy to do. Lizzardskills has a special effect mode in her camera that does it automatically I think from what she posted.

What software do you have?

[Little B]

This is all I have for software....I took a screenshot.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l284/littleb_27/d120ed8f.jpg

[Chako]

Do yourself a favor and get Adobe Photoshop Elements and or Corel Paint Shop Pro. Any version will be heads above what you are using right now,

[Andre]

If you're on a budget There's also GIMP. It's free.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

[Little B]

Thanks for the advice guys.

[EyelashExtensions]

I don't mind at all Chako! I like the way it looks with just the butterfly colored. Good work!

[EyelashExtensions]

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0722.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0721.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0723.jpg

[Little B]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Andre</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If you're on a budget There's also GIMP. It's free.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ </div></div>

Well Andre, I gave GIMP 2 a try, seeing as the price was right! But either I need to buy photo editing for dummies, or I find this program a little complicated. I'll take some time to try to get the hang of it, it just seems so different from what I have used in the past. Which of course wasn't anything to special anyway.

[Little B]

Lizzard I don't know what that thing is, but it's cool, and looks like a stealth moth of some sort......lol.

[Andre]

It's very similar to photoshop:
* Intelligent Scissors are similar to the Magnetic Lasso
* rectangular, elliptical and lasso features are identical
* dropper, fill, gradient, pencil, paintbrush, eraser, airbrush, clone stamper, blur or sharpen, smudge, and dodge or burn features are identical
* flip, rotate, scale, crop, zoom, move, foreground+background color swatch, layers, history, gradients, and drop shadow features are identical

Either one takes a good while to learn. For what most people(including myself) do it's a good free alternative to photoshop.

Stick with it and learn and you'll be happy. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

[Chako]

Here is a panoramic of a barge.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/Chako_photo/PanoBoatsmall.jpg

[Little B]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Andre</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's very similar to photoshop:
* Intelligent Scissors are similar to the Magnetic Lasso
* rectangular, elliptical and lasso features are identical
* dropper, fill, gradient, pencil, paintbrush, eraser, airbrush, clone stamper, blur or sharpen, smudge, and dodge or burn features are identical
* flip, rotate, scale, crop, zoom, move, foreground+background color swatch, layers, history, gradients, and drop shadow features are identical

Ok, thanks Andre, hope you don't mind me asking the odd question. I'll play with it this weekend and see what I can learn.
Either one takes a good while to learn. For what most people(including myself) do it's a good free alternative to photoshop.

Stick with it and learn and you'll be happy. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
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[EyelashExtensions]

Went fishing and snapped a few pictures on the river...

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0146.jpg


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0160.jpg


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0151.jpg

[jeffrey1984]

here are a few i have

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5/blazer84/033.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5/blazer84/IMG_0077.jpg

[Nando]

Instead of the Gimp, you could also try Gimpshop. Gimpshop is a hacked version of the Gimp that has a graphical user interface that is similar to Photoshop. Also, the majority of the terminology unique to the Gimp have been renamed to the Photoshop equivalent. One can follow most Photoshop tutorials in Gimpshop without too many problems. Gimpshop is free but only available for Windows and Mac. Surprisingly, I don't think there is a Linux version yet.

[Chako]

To keep with the duck theme....

What you looking at.
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/Chako_photo/DSC02314sleepsmall.jpg

Nando...have a great summer holiday.

[EyelashExtensions]

Out at St. Joe's Island......

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0051.jpg


This little Lady built a nest in the middle of the parking lot at the marina. We had parked beside her nest not knowing she was there until I went to get my sweater and she came out wings flapping and squawking! She had 3 little eggs in her nest, but I didn't have my camera at the time(it was in the boat). On the way out I snapped a few pictures from a distance. Some people had put larger rocks and logs around her nest so no one runs it over.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0055.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0057.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0058.jpg

[Larimar]

Can you help me lol. I tried it in photoshop -inverted it but still the whole thing turns b&w when i pick that...did I do something wrong?

[Chako]

Ok here is a step by step way of doing it using Photoshop CS2 (Elements should be the same way or very close)

1. Open photo
2. Select "magnetic lasso" tool and carefully trace around object you want coloured. The Delete key will remove the anchor points if you go off target...retrace if needed. Double click when you reached your starting point. This will create a moving dashed boundary. At this point, anything you do will be applied to what is inside that boundary.
3.Go to the "Select" pull down menu and click on "Inverse". This will select everything else but what was originally selected.
4. To turn the background black and white you can do this several ways. A. "Image" pull down menu, "desaturate". B. "Image" pull down menu, "Adjustment", "gradient map" and select a grey scale gradient or a black and white scale gradient. Either way will cause the selected background to turn black and white.
5. Now go back up to "Select" pull down menu and click on "deselect". This will eliminate the bound boxes.

If done right, you will have black and white the background and kept the originally selected area its natural colour.

Hope this helps.

[Jackie B]

I have been using gimp for a while now, and didn't see and intelligent scissors, and wasn't even able to figure out how to crop a picture. I spent a long time playing with it too. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif Maybe I'll get gimp 2 and see if it's better.

[Chako]

I have never used Gimp. I have read that the user interface leaves a lot to be desired.

Here is a demo photo and how I did it using CS2.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/Chako_photo/_MG_8064smallbw.jpg

1. Open photo.
2. Using the magnetic lasso tool, trace around one bird.
3. Go to the "layers" pull down menu and select "new" and then to "Layer as copy". This will make a new layer of the one bird.
4. Repeat the above with the other bird. When done, you should see your background layer, and 2 separate layers containing each one bird.
5. Click on the background layer and turn to black and white using your method of choice. In this example, I turned it to black and white and used a yellow photography filter effect on the water.
6. Click on each bird layer. You can auto level; tweak the birds to your liking.
7. Save the photo as a Jpeg and you’re done. For fancier layer work, it may be necessary to select the "layers" pull down menu, and find the "flatten image" option. This will merge all the layers back into one photo for easy saving. In this case, there was no need to flatten the image to merge the layers into one photo.

[Larimar]

Thanks for the help! I practised it on a few photos. I won't share any until I get better haha.


anywho-here's some of my photos i'll share /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/ap.jpg


http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/chipmunk.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/squirrell2-1.jpg


http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/dragonfly1.jpg

[EyelashExtensions]

DreamSpirit those are adorable!!! Great pics!

[EyelashExtensions]

Storm rolling in on my FISHING!!


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0043.jpg

[MelissaBrian]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DreamSpirit</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks for the help! I practised it on a few photos. I won't share any until I get better haha.


anywho-here's some of my photos i'll share /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/ap.jpg


http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/chipmunk.jpg

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/squirrell2-1.jpg


http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/dragonfly1.jpg
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those are GREAT...lovem
wow

[everywoman]

Awww...love those little guys!!

[Larimar]

thankyou /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
Lizzard-looks like you could be flying in the clouds in that photo /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

[kitca]

oh wow, dreamspirit, that first close up - wonderful, all of them all. all of everyones are great! what a nice thread.

[Larimar]

thankyou


I really enjoyed everyones photos! so nice

[Larimar]

thanks chako for the advice-here is what i played around with. My dragonfly photo


http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/seraphsarah2/dragonflycopy.jpg

[Chako]

That looks marvelous.

You could try to blot out that green grass by playing around with the colour eyedropper tool and your opacity levels. If you make the colours transparent enough, you could change that green grass in the wings to more of a background colour.

Bravo! /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

[Chako]

A female red wing eating a nice juicy May fly.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/Chako_photo/_MG_8367small.jpg

[EyelashExtensions]

Chako, almost every photo you post is educational! I'm learning something new everyday from you! Another great photo! What do you do with all of your photos?

[Chako]

They sit on my Hard drive and eventually get burned to a CD when I accrue enough of them. lol.

[Chako]

One more taken with the Pentax K10D.

Goose talking.
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/Chako_photo/IMGP2420smallgoose.jpg

[EyelashExtensions]

Some more pictures of another fishing adventure. These were taken on Friday and BRRRRRRRR it was chilly!


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0026.jpg


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0043-1.jpg


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0039.jpg

[Chako]

That last photo is very atmospheric. Good composition.

[EyelashExtensions]

Thanks Chako. It was very hard trying to take some pictures in the boat with big waves, some of the pictures would have been nice but were a little lopsided.

[BrAt]

Holy!! That "make a b&w pic with a touch of colour" is HAAARD!! I dare not post any of mine until I have practiced for the next 6 months or so. LMAO

Great pics though everyone!!! /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

[tippikitty]

Look what I had on the weekend. /ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/tippikitty/100_6145.jpg

[Larimar]

yummy

i added my pic too on the berry thread. They can go together-most i saw they were all dead besides just one small berry by itself lol..so I left it alone.lol

[BrAt]

Well, since I'm not doing so well on editing the actual picture, I will share one of the digital scrapbooking pictures I did. Hope that's ok.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/BethnMike2003/atthefair-resized.jpg

[sage]

That dragonfly pic is awesome!!!

[sereenie]

awhh i love the chipmunk ones

[EyelashExtensions]

Turtle sunbathing...

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0246.jpg


Froggy...ribbit


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0190.jpg


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/lizzardskills/IMG_0189.jpg

[everywoman]

Awesome, lizzard!!

[EyelashExtensions]

Thanks everywoman!

[sage]

[everywoman]

Very cool Sage....your son has grown so much since the last time I saw him!!