Photoshop fun - Before and After

I'm slowly learning a few tricks with Photoshop and Elements. Here are the before and after pics of my 8 Ball male lemon pastel.

Before (lame photographic and lighting skills)

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...0/2/Before.jpg

After

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../0/2/After.jpg

That's excellent...you got skillz!!!

that's a good photoshop, not too extreme or fake looking. using lights that are balanced for daylight or as close as possible will eliminate the need for photoshop.



vaughn

ah but the real question here is... does your snake look like the photoshopped image?

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

ah but the real question here is... does your snake look like the photoshopped image?

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Heh, thats why Im afraid of good pictures of snakes :)

Good stuff Lawrence!

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

ah but the real question here is... does your snake look like the photoshopped image?

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Actually, it looks very much like the photoshopped one. Here, let me take a picture and I'll show you. :P

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Originally Posted by kavmon

using lights that are balanced for daylight or as close as possible will eliminate the need for photoshop.

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True, but I found that it's much easier for me to "fix" a photo and make it look like the subject than it is to adjust the camera and lighting to get the same results. I might be able to get it exact if I had the right lighting and enough time to adjust the settings on something that is a little more stationary, but with my snakes I'm lucky if I can get them in focus half the time. :oops:

hahahahaha

Photochopped or not, that's a nice looking lemon pastel anyday. :thumbsup:

The two pictures look the same to me :confuzd:

wow so thats how they do that. i guess thats one more thing i have to learn to do in the next 3 yrs.

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Originally Posted by cueball

The two pictures look the same to me :confuzd:

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No, the second one has a logo. Sheesh. :P

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Originally Posted by xdeus

No, the second one has a logo. Sheesh. :P

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Its got some 8 Ball feel to it..Was that intentional? :)

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Its got some 8 Ball feel to it..Was that intentional? :)

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Not at all, but maybe I stumbled on some of Adam's secrets by mistake. :gj:

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Originally Posted by xdeus

Not at all, but maybe I stumbled on some of Adam's secrets by mistake. :gj:

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It's all in the borders :gj: ... I've got no secrets about that ;) ... Ask some of the "pro's" out there, they like my style as well ... LMAO!

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

It's all in the borders :gj: ... I've got no secrets about that ;) ... Ask some of the "pro's" out there, they like my style as well ... LMAO!

-adam

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I like your style..Wait, that didn't sound right...

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

It's all in the borders :gj: ... I've got no secrets about that ;) ... Ask some of the "pro's" out there, they like my style as well ... LMAO!

-adam

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I finally found an easy way to make cool looking borders on photoshop. Although I'm going to change it slightly from the pic I posted... instead of using percent I'm going to use pixels.

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Originally Posted by xdeus

I finally found an easy way to make cool looking borders on photoshop.

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Not stroke? ... I really just stumble my way through that bloated POS ... The idea of software that poweful designed to run on desktops is just moronic ... but Adobe is makin the big bucks, so what do I know. :P

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Not stroke? ... I really just stumble my way through that bloated POS ... The idea of software that poweful designed to run on desktops is just moronic ... but Adobe is makin the big bucks, so what do I know. :P

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What major piece of software isn't bloatware? Still, it's neat to stumble across some feature that you never new about and at the same time annoying for not having discovered it sooner.

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Originally Posted by xdeus

What major piece of software isn't bloatware?

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I just switched to QuickBooks this year and I'm really impressed with it ... it covers EVERYTHING, but still "feels" very small ... and it's always snappy with a very small memory footprint compared to most of the garbage that I run.

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Still, it's neat to stumble across some feature that you never new about and at the same time annoying for not having discovered it sooner.

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I know EXACTLY what you mean Neo. ;)

-adam

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Not stroke? ...

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Doh, forgot about your question. It's a little easier than stroke and you can save an action for it so you can make all of your pics the same. Go to Canvas Size, select 'Relative', then the border size and Canvas Extension Color.