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make a blank layer and paint ivory over the dress. change the blending mode to difference. after that use a duplicate background layer, drag it on top and use blend if to change the diamonds back to white. this method keeps the dress from pixelating.

thanks man.

not really, i just used blending modes and blend if.

here's my try - disregard the quick and crappy cutout job around the hand.

a great site to tell you when blue hour is and some other articles. and outdoor photos taken during blue hour. http://www.bluehoursite.com/

to be honest, no photoshop is needed. it is used to polish what is already captured, but the brilliant blue sky and lights were already there. you don't need a long exposure. just shoot during blue hour, that hour before sunrise and after sunset when the sky loses the reddish hues and turns...

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so does the tea taste like chocolate?

well if you've ever extracted caffeine from tea bags it's the same thing. just start out with cocoa leaves instead of tea bags... oh, oops, sorry, i guess i spent too much time in organic chem lab in college. those were the days... if you don't want to extract the cracks with a mask or other...

ditto. also try adobe lightroom for processing your raw files and converting them to jpg for photoshop.

bit uneventful at work tonight so had another go with the puppet warp... this time with the avatar.

was working on this one anyway. just some minor transform edits, but it works for the challenge, used transform scale, distort and warp on the rocks below. used scale and warp on the volcano (mountain) to give it the proper size to fit on the back of the fish and warp to make the bottom not so...

try using the photocopy filter to get the b&w silhouette. or if you're feeling ambitious use the pen tool to make a path around the outline of the subject you want to be black then fill the selection. after that it's pretty much what dv8 said, use a layer filled with white or a light texture.

great work, can't wait to see more.

thanks ekinoks and belial. don't worry, this phase will be long gone and i'll have new material and ideas thought up by the time my next month of midnight shifts comes around.. wednesday night is my last night of freedom before day shift hell.