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Published: 2017-11-18 00:28:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 1644; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 6
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Photoshop and lots of experience lol
The cybermen are pulled from a couple different photos, the one up front was the one that had the most work done since I had to switch the light source and adjust all the shadows. All of it is Photoshop, much as I wish I had props and costumes.
The props/etc are cut from the original image and assembled in layers. The image is then ether converted to black and white, or if it's going to be left in colour the layers will be adjusted until they match.
Once I've gotten everything right for position and scale, light sources are adjusted as needed and hightlights/shadows added.
The camera focus is adjusted using the blur tool, and the edges of any inserted objects are softened to allow them to merge with the layers underneath and look like they were part of the original picture.
Since I'm primarily working with images I get online or screencaps, the quality of the parts varies considerably. That's where the artificial aging comes in- aside from just looking really cool (as far as I'm concerned, I really like old photos) it allows me to hide lower quality images under the processing.
I decide when I want the media to come from- early 1900s, 1950s, 1970s-80s, or modern media.
When it's from determines how much blur, interference, edge fading, etc I will apply. Once any additional effects have been added, I add grain filters. The grain breaks down the pixelation from lower quality images, as well as making the photograph look as though it was taken on film.
Once the grain has been applied and I'm happy with it, the image is flattened and another fine layer of grain applied. With a colour image, it's done.
If the image is 'monochrome', like this one, I've been working in black and white up to that point, but photos from the 1900s-1950s (as we see them today, certainly, even if not originally) are usually not actually black and white, they have varying brown and yellow tones, so the black and white image is converted to colour and then balanced for the right chemical mix.
With some of them there is a colour and a monochrome image, those are ones where the quality of the inserts was close enough to the quality of my photo that nothing needed to be hidden. The colour ones with K-9 usually mimic photos from the 1980s since that's when he appeared on the show.
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Nice work.
BTW K-9 has appeared much more recently thanks to the Sarah Jane Adventures and their crossovers with Dr Who.
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lol Yeah, I know. There was an older series with K-9 and Sara Jane as well, made shortly after she left the show, and in 2009 they tried a k-9 series but it didn't get past the first season.
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I know the Sara Jane appeared in a few special episodes and the ill-fated K-9 and company. But her new show was turning out to be quite popular, and even brought back Jo Grant before it had to end due to her untimely death.
I didn't know about the 2nd K-9 series, apparently didn't get much exposure in the US.
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It was...not good lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8uqKL…
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I'll go get a clothespin for the nose before viewing.
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Wow great photoshop skills! I didn't even know this was a photomanipulation until I read your tags.
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Good! lol The Daleks, Cybermen, K-9, Tardis, all of that is edited in.
I've ben using Photoshop for over 20 years.
Thats actually why I go for the old photo look. I can use screengrabs and fairly low quality or small images and then when the age and grain is applied it evens out. And I dont have to try and adjust colours. Alot of it is making sure the egdes are a little soft, adjusting the camera focus, and correcting light and shadow. Intry to match light sources but with this one I had to change the direction of light for the cyberman in front a bit. Throwing the shadow over his legs puts him behind the fender on the trailer and where I'm looking.
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Very well done putting the pictures together. Cybermen are one of my favorites in the show's history. They appeared three times in my own Doctor Who fan fiction tales beating out the one-time appearance by the Daleks.
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Well done! Time to get on your horse Time Lady and ride! We all know a Cyberman cant hit a moving target.
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lol Funny you should mention that, I just started on a Doctor Who western- story, that is, not photos.
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I'm working on a time traveling western but not the doctor.
most of the old doctors could easily be mistaken for a snake oil peddler. But I'm not sure how the local medicine man would react to him. Just be sure to leave the white buffalo alone.
The lady doctor could be impersonating a pony express rider.
Of course meeting Liver eatin' Johnson or Judge Roy Bean could be interesting.
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lol There's a snake oil man in there, but it's not the Doctor. Doc and co will be moonlighting as Pinkerton agents, I like doing the mystery/crime type stories and that's basically your Scotland Yard of the old West.
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OMG! The story I'm working on is also a crime mystery. But mine is set in the present and past.
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lol I've got Old West and New Shanghai, which is 2250s cyberpunk.
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..a MOST awesome picture!! Incredible Photoshop work - looks absolutely real!!
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XD Thank you. I was a bit worried about the Cyberman there in front, I had to do quite a bit of light source adjusting on him lol
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Photoshop, unfortunately.
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Still completely awesome.
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