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tips: photography for beginners

Great tips to shoot on the beach: http://www.exposureguide.com/beach-photography-tips.htm

Stumbleupon Inspirations

1. A little animation but with so much character!the art is so clean and yet with so much emotional detail: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5635400/pixar-intro-parody

2. Ever wonder how to sleeveface?

This video is about how to do it! it looks so much fun!

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-sleeveface-142258/

3- Those surreal paintings are amazing:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1rTyop/designerscouch.org/view-log/the-surreal-paintings-of-vladimir-kush-687





4- Under the water photography
 by Erin Mulvehill can freeze time// photography: 
I never seen such a soft silhouette like those before ... it looks  magical!
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1rTyop/designerscouch.org/view-log/the-surreal-paintings-of-vladimir-kush-687

40 Free Fonts Ideal For Retro And Vintage Designs

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1m5fpM/bluefaqs.com/2010/05/40-free-retro-and-vintage-fonts/

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Selected Color Exercice 2

For this composition I will use the picture of my cat.
I like this photo because his position on the screen gives a sense of depth, of perspective ....
My vision was to contrast the old and new techniques, such as black and white photo and oil paining, to make the cat's face pop up as delicately as I could.

First, I separated the cat from the background with the magic wand tool.
Then I made the selection a mask.

The background layer was set to black and white, and then I started playing with the texture of the cat: I wanted to look as if he was oil painted... and I love the results!

I also have another version, in which i revert the colors and make the cat black and white and the couch colorful .... 

Selected Color Exercice 1

I will use this photo that I took in Portugal because I love the background trees and also my friend looks pretty statuesque so I decided to give her the "Statue look"

First I separated the foreground from the background with a magic wand selector and then converted the selection to a masque,

then I started playing with the layer style and texture to look as if she was made by stones

Then I started fixing the background: I used the clone stamp tool to fill up the white column behind her 

And the final result is:

Silhouette Composition 3

Bellow it is my 3rd Silhouette Composition:

I used two photos of my own camera:

First I worked on selecting out my profile from the picture, then i pasted it as a second layer, over the wood floor.

After that I adjusted the lightness of the face layer until it was a silhouette.

Then my next step was to modify the style of the wood layer, and to change the blend mode from normal to color dodge.

My final layer was with the sencence: wast of time - perda de tempo, written many times in columns. 

I adjusted the opacity to almost transparent and changed the color of the fonts to white and red!

Silhouette Composition 2

Bellow is my 2nd silhouette composition:

MY PROCESS:

I started out with pictures from my own camera:

My first step it was to clear out the picture with the boat:
 I didn't want anything but the boat and the water, so, i used the clone stamp tool to erase it all and give it a bit of mystery ....

Then I cut out the city skyline form my 2nd picture (using the magnetic selection tool) and pasted it as a 2nd layer of the composition. 

After that I lowered the lightness until the skyline became a silhouette ...

My final steps was positioning the layers, then stylizing the boat layer and then duplicating the skyline so that it has more depth.

I added texture to the layer: artistic canvas! I like this canvas because it looks like an old oil paint and its a good contrast to the modern skyline. 

Silhouette Composition 1: Liberty

Those bellow are my two versions of my silhouette composition 1:

(I could not decide which i like best)

My process:

I took 3 pictures from my own camera:

Then I started adjusting the first photo:
I used the clone stamp tool do erase the background in order to make my next layer pop out:

Then I start using the magnetic selection tool to select (and cut out) the statue out of the picture:

Then i placed the statue on the top  the 1st layer,
and also adjusted hue/saturation: lightness was set to zero.

then I started testing some layer styles

After that I decided to put a texture over al the other layers,

so I decided to cut out the flowers from one picture and pasted it as a new layer:

My last steps were to resize the flowers layer in order to cover all the composition, and  change the opacity to make it more transparent. 

My Own Photos for composition

Inspiration Pieces