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Hi ALB
Thank you for the quick response. I think this is a professional work. I tried this what you say, with two layers, i changed blending mode. I tried with some filters into filter gallery too, but i had no success.
I searched by youtube but i found nothing
Thanks again
gertl
It's probably something like this. Book case layer, person layer, another book case. Layer mask on first bookcase, and one on the second, but lower the opacity of the brush on the second case. I painted with black at 100% opacity and then brought it back at 30% or so
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It's probably something like this. Book case layer, person layer, another book case. Layer mask on first bookcase, and one on the second, but lower the opacity of the brush on the second case. I painted with black at 100% opacity and then brought it back at 30% or so
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I can see now. My image looks like yours but i think this is not what we want to achieve. If you see the cover, the images have relief, while our results no.
I have to go now sorry
Thank you and i hope i see you tomorrow again
best regards
gertl
Thanks for posting that cover photo, Gertl. It's beautifully done, and reproducing that look will take a very good, observant eye, as well as considerable familiarity with more advanced features of PS such as the layer BlendIF sliders, and layer blending modes.
With respect to observation, the first thing that I noticed was that the books in the region of the face lost all of their original color and took on the color of the man's skin.
The second thing that I noticed was that in addition to the obvious color change, the books were also simplified / stylized in the area of the man. Outside of that area, they were not so stylized, but still, the contrast of the books was very well controlled -- not harsh, at all.
The third thing that I noticed was that the book shelves and dividers in the cover photo were brown, not black, as they are in the example photo that you supplied. In addition, in the cover photo example, the shelves and dividers look absolutely the same in the area of the man, as well as outside that area. This is very different from what happens to the books sitting on those shelves, so the shelving obviously must be dealt with separately from the books.
There are lots of other interesting aspects to the cover photo, but, at minimum, the above factors clearly must be taken into account for there to be any hope of reproducing this look. Clearly a simple "reduce the opacity" approach won't even come close.
So, given the above, I spend about 15 minutes playing with the samples you provided, and attached my result below. I am not happy with the result, but if, by some strange chance, you are interested in the steps I took, I'll be happy to write them up, but, be warned, there were quite a few, and I may not remember them all.
IMHO, in addition to the obvious goals mentioned above, I consider that the most important technique I used was similar to that one might take if they were simulating the pixellation of a huge sports TV screen, except that instead of a nice regular array of round or square pixels, I used the irregular shapes, sizes and placements of the books to sorta-kinda define edges to break up the image of the man's face.
I would be very interested to see how others approach this very interesting problem, especially if someone has a simpler approach that works well. (...Swiss Chris and others ... please pick up the white courtesy phone, LOL ...)
Cheers,
Tom M
ALB68:So Tom, I bet you spent longer than 15 minutes with giving all your observations about the image. Why not take that time and write an explanation of what you did to arrive at your result? IMHO that would be far more useful and answer the OP's initial query. I, for one, would like to see your process, as I, took a very simple approach without benefit of all the knowledge you have. Thanks
That's pretty close Chris! Great job!
But it's all for naught if we can't explain what we did to our OP!
Dig deep and try to explain!