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Published: 2005-04-18 22:10:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 338; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 191
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Messing around with combining the different render modes in DAZ|Studio and doing horrible things to the rendered images in Photoshop in an attempt to achieve a more illustrated look.________________________________________ ______________________________
Rendered in DAZ|Studio
Postworked in PhotoShop 7
From DAZ3d: V3; Trixie for V3; V3/SP Clothing Pack; Chic Boutique; Urban Sprawl.
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Well your "messing" around has paid off, you've been able to get a really good illustrated look here. Well done.
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thanks!
and yeah. the illustrated look thingie is mostly due to a doing horrible things to the sky (which I replaced entirely with some photo from Image*After, and then tortured some more), and a strange (yet extremely useful!) discovery in PhotoShop's Smart Blur - somehow, if you play around with it enough, you will somehow reduce your image into a set of white on black borders of the main elements of the image. invert those colors, and voila! instant black borders.
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Next you'll be talking about tortured skies
You never cease to impress me with what you're able to do with Photohop, I tell myself I'll be able to learn how to do some of these things but I just never do.
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oh! that is a lovely title for some hyper-goth image! haha!
heh. thanks! nothing amazing to it, really. its just a matter of obsessively researching the effects of combining different layer blending modes with the various filters.
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Heh, I suppose it is
I'm sort of doing that but don't come up with such good results, I guess I could spend a bit more time messing around and actually try to remember what I'm doing
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Oh. I rarely have a clue what I've done exactly with stuff. Makes the process a little annoying, but also much more fun, because each image comes out differently.
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Messing around is fun yes, but there are times when I wish I had a clearer idea of what you can do with PS so that I could really go to town on my images, I've got a few tutes but I just never seem to get around to reading them. If I'm gonna get into the higher end apps then I guess it would be a good idea to learn how to use PS more effectively.
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i think its important to feel comfortable with the app enough so you're not just "duh, what does that do? kool!", but other than that, i think exploring is most of the fun.
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That's a fair point, and yes I do agree - to a point, for me, because of the way my mind works I prefer to have a good familiarity of the program so that I can then explore even furtehr and see what fun I can have. That's more down to the way my mind works that anything else though.
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Well I've bought an Adobe published book on learning Photoshop so all I've got to do is read it and apply what I learn. That sounds easy *smirks*
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oh. that guarantees an easy ride indeed! :-D
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The way things are going my free time could be limited for a short while, but it'd not be for long and would be a small sacrafice in the long run. (see my LJ for an update)
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yeah, saw that! congrats on the job offer! good luck!
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It's not an offer yet, but is a step in the right direction. If this one isn't successful then I'm optimistic the recruiment agency are going to be useful. Just waiting to see.
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ah. thats great! one way or another - trying never hurts!
good luck!
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