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Very suave work man! The blurring and the cleanliness of the shots are superb!
|| Funkshens Photography || - Update - Tournament Entry - 8/4/07
- Thread starter Funkshen
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- Cooly
Thanks Guys 👍
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Update: Volkswagon Beetle
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This is the First time ive done something like this, i wanted a real metallic type feel, but couldn't achieve it. Ill have to settle with this, far from perfect. and not really happy with it, but too much work to not post it up.
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Update: Volkswagon Beetle
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This is the First time ive done something like this, i wanted a real metallic type feel, but couldn't achieve it. Ill have to settle with this, far from perfect. and not really happy with it, but too much work to not post it up.
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- cod_father_204
Looks awesome to me. Not your best work, but still awesome.
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- bramturismo
I love it! Although it would look better if you just kept the black background without the rippple effect it's still a beauty 👍
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- Moglet85
- Moglet
It looks nice enough, but i really think that just cleaning up the original shot would have worked better. The ripple effect on your edit looks a bit strange, the reflection is at the wrong angle. The rear wheels and their reflection should meet!
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- Cooly
If the car was orginally on a flat surface when i took the shot, the rear wheels of the reflection would meet the rear wheels of the original shot. But considering the car was orginally on a slope, the perspective its in now is the right one. 👍 (that's enough reason to not do the reflection at all, but i did)
The ripple isn't right i know. it all comes with practice eh?.
Thanks for the comments everyone.
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- Cooly
Update: Nissan Skyline DR30 RS-Turbo (Comp Entry)
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Personally, i think this is one of my better ones. I did a crap load of clean-up. and im still not satisfied, but i lose interest and can't be bothered fixing it. I tried the motion blur pixel clean-up method, and am pretty impressed with the results. although in this application it doesn't show-case its potential (like franz's V35 for example). But meh.
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Personally, i think this is one of my better ones. I did a crap load of clean-up. and im still not satisfied, but i lose interest and can't be bothered fixing it. I tried the motion blur pixel clean-up method, and am pretty impressed with the results. although in this application it doesn't show-case its potential (like franz's V35 for example). But meh.
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- bramturismo
It's beautiful Funkshen, the blur is performed with excellent quality 👍
Only thing though, I think you've been a bit too rough on cleaning up the window reflections there, you might try and use a lens blur on those pieces 👍
Only thing though, I think you've been a bit too rough on cleaning up the window reflections there, you might try and use a lens blur on those pieces 👍
Awesome...
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- bramturismo
Hey Funk, I did a try of what I said to you earlier, to be sure I'm not giving you any false hints:
Let me know what you make out of it, I've selected and added a lens blur on the biggest reflections on the window of the door 👍
Let me know what you make out of it, I've selected and added a lens blur on the biggest reflections on the window of the door 👍
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- Cooly
Update: Honda NSX Type S
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This one is really boring, the gallery needed an update... and this is about all my mind will produce. Un-inspired, and really struggling to produce something original and outstanding. sooo.. yeah.
P.S., the sky is horrid, any hints on what to do with the pixelated texture?
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This one is really boring, the gallery needed an update... and this is about all my mind will produce. Un-inspired, and really struggling to produce something original and outstanding. sooo.. yeah.
P.S., the sky is horrid, any hints on what to do with the pixelated texture?
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- NewAesthetic
- SlipZtrEm
It's a clean-looking car though, subtle 'shopping. I don't think I've seen a shot quite like this at that location 
As for the sky, use the polygonal lasso tool and select as much of it as you can without touching a tree. Ctrl + C then Ctrl + V to make it a seperate layer, Ctrl-Click this new layer in the layers menu (so the blur doesn't escape past onto the trees), then apply the neccessary gaussian blur to get rid of the pixelation. Make a few copies of the layer so the blur is a bit more full, and that should be all 👍
As for the sky, use the polygonal lasso tool and select as much of it as you can without touching a tree. Ctrl + C then Ctrl + V to make it a seperate layer, Ctrl-Click this new layer in the layers menu (so the blur doesn't escape past onto the trees), then apply the neccessary gaussian blur to get rid of the pixelation. Make a few copies of the layer so the blur is a bit more full, and that should be all 👍
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- bramturismo
It looks good but a huge job is still to be done on this one...The colours and the composition all looks really good but you haven't cleaned up too much 
About the sky, Slip's way is very time consuming so if you want a way to do it faster; Just roughly select the sky and apply either a lens, smart or shape blur 👍
About the sky, Slip's way is very time consuming so if you want a way to do it faster; Just roughly select the sky and apply either a lens, smart or shape blur 👍
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- Cooly
It looks good but a huge job is still to be done on this one...The colours and the composition all looks really good but you haven't cleaned up too much
About the sky, Slip's way is very time consuming so if you want a way to do it faster; Just roughly select the sky and apply either a lens, smart or shape blur 👍
A huge job?, what exactly needs such a massive clean-up? Id say ive given this one a rather substantial clean-up. more then i did with the previous update. Though ill admitt i got a little messy with the blur tool.
I tried the lens blur, and too roughly select the sky it does not work. it becomes to obvious with the surrounding trees.
Slip: cheers mate, i always had the idea of guassian blur... i was hoping someone knew a quicker method, but it doesn't seem that way.
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- NewAesthetic
- SlipZtrEm
To be honest, I never take more than 2 or so minutes to do it. I just get close enough to the trees to grab all the obvious pixelation. If you miss tiny little bits, some more selective lasso-then-smudge use can clear it up
P.S. I'd usually use the magic wand, but due to the large colour variations, I don't know how effective that'd be. It probably wouldn't hurt to try it!
P.S. I'd usually use the magic wand, but due to the large colour variations, I don't know how effective that'd be. It probably wouldn't hurt to try it!
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- Cooly
To be honest, I never take more than 2 or so minutes to do it. I just get close enough to the trees to grab all the obvious pixelation. If you miss tiny little bits, some more selective lasso-then-smudge use can clear it up
P.S. I'd usually use the magic wand, but due to the large colour variations, I don't know how effective that'd be. It probably wouldn't hurt to try it!
Thanks mate, ill give it a bearler later this evening, appreciate the advice 👍
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- bramturismo
Well huge job is a little exaggorated but alot of lines on the car can be cleaned up 
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