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  1. Crotale

    trying to put a car on a mountain road

    Forgot the rear window transparency. Gotta tighten up that believability factor.
  2. Crotale

    A Photoshop substitute process for GIMP's "Color to Alpha" function?

    I was able to get similar effect. I turned off the Blue channel, enabled Blend If at the 0 end and split it off to 0/55, while leaving the other end at 255.
  3. Crotale

    how to blend a daytime and nightime pic

    Before you continue, I invite you to take a better look at the lighting and shadowing in the car image compared to the background image. The light sources are vastly different, coming in from different directions and angles. That will make the challenge of creating a believable final product...
  4. Crotale

    Recommend a good photoshop book or video series?

    You can also opt to join NAPP. There, you can interact with industry professionals, access online classes and tutorials from these pros, and enjoy reading their printed periodicals delivered via mail. It is a steep annual cost for many at $25 USD per month or $249 per year...
  5. Crotale

    Suggest me Logo Maker software!

    Sheesh, I feel stupid. I generally look right past the signature block.
  6. Crotale

    Suggest me Logo Maker software!

    Depends on the usage of the logo. If you just want a small graphic to place on the header/banner of a website site, then Photoshop will do just fine. But if you will need to scale it from very small all the way up to poster or billboard size and everything in between, I suggest Illustrator...
  7. Crotale

    how to blend a daytime and nightime pic

    Aside from the obvious variances between the lighting of the added object and the background, as well as shading around the vehicle to help it better blend into the background, one thing I noticed that is really throwing off the image is the scale. Considering the perspective of the original...
  8. Crotale

    What Can I Do To Make My Work Better?

    All excellent points, Tom, but you forget that not every shot can be perfectly set up. There may be times where a quick shot is all the opportunity you have, and as a novice, you may not have a separate flash on hand (due to lack of resources, etc.). While I do agree it is far better get it...
  9. Crotale

    What Can I Do To Make My Work Better?

    I noticed the noise in the background particularly after the B&W conversion. 'Tis why I added back in some noise after smoothing. I tried a different approach that adds in some gaussian blur in the background and no noise added. I did bump the levels a tick.
  10. Crotale

    What Can I Do To Make My Work Better?

    From my experience, simply taking a color image to B&W doesn't always work out well. One of the biggest considerations in the original contrast. Black and white alone do not always contrast when muting colors, so you have to find certain colors that will boost well to give the image good...
  11. Crotale

    Delete/hide all pixels except those of a certain colour

    It greatly depends on the original and how much of an effect you seek. As one example, and probably not the best one, you can start off with the "Cutout" filter to get the basic flattening of colors so they are more easily manageable on an individual scale. From there, processes vary, as I...
  12. Crotale

    How is this artist adding a 3rd dimension here?

    I can both appreciate his opinion and express disagreement at the same time. As I said, perhaps my perception of his intended message was offbase and that is why I asked if I was misconstruing his comments.
  13. Crotale

    How is this artist adding a 3rd dimension here?

    It depends on the use of any tools outside of the camera and subject materials whether or not the artist can create an interesting piece. Art is subjective and your freedom to state your opinion is valid, naturally, but to blatantly shrug off any such talent or possibility that a person can...
  14. Crotale

    How is this artist adding a 3rd dimension here?

    As best I can explain it, it is called "refraction," or an optical change of direction or speed of light and color as it passes through the transition. Use of a thick drinking glass, or glass of water, can net similar effects when shooting objects. There are a few Photoship plugins that can...
  15. Crotale

    Layer styles not showing up in CS5?

    That is great news. If nothing else, you know what to eliminate first.
  16. Crotale

    Layer styles not showing up in CS5?

    That sounds like they should be enabled. Can you provide a sample screenshot so that I can see how your layers look? An additional screenshot of your Layer Styles tool would be helpful.
  17. Crotale

    Photoshop CS6 Crashing when I "Save for Web" Windows OS

    At what point in the process does it crash?
  18. Crotale

    Layer styles not showing up in CS5?

    Are you applying the style to a layer that encompasses the entire canvas? If so, the effects may be outside the canvas area. You should also check Layer > Layer Style > Show Effects is selected (should show up in menu tree as Hide All Effects if the Show Effects is enabled).
  19. Crotale

    Sepia Toning

    I agree with Paul. I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would add such a heavy handed color overlay that yellows the teeth of the subjects. This is generally an undesired side effect. I used the Auto Color function and found the original color palette to be more palatable.
  20. Crotale

    Winter Soldier Theme

    Does it look stupid, immature, lacking in creativity?
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