Been lurking for a while i thought i'd post a few
Been lurking for a while i thought i'd post a few
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jam101

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127 posts

270 months

Monday 24th July 2006
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Just thought i'd post these to see what you think, criticism is very welcome
Taken With a Cannon 350D (Rebel XT to me)









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GetCarter

31,293 posts

309 months

Monday 24th July 2006
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Very nice James.

Nice idea with the beetles.

Touching Cloth

11,706 posts

269 months

Monday 24th July 2006
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Lovely stuff.

job38

1,973 posts

266 months

Monday 24th July 2006
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Lovely stuff

Imperialism2024

1,596 posts

286 months

Monday 24th July 2006
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Lovely stuff

te51cle

2,342 posts

278 months

Monday 24th July 2006
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Like the trucks and the Beetles but the rusty car is a bit dark. One thing you (or anyone else lurking quietly around here!) might like to try in Photoshop is to use the gradient tool to create a bit of drama in the white sky.

1 - Select the gradient tool
2 - Make sure the Linear Gradient and Foreground to Transparent boxes are selected
3 - Select black as the foreground colour
4 - Open a new layer above any others you have open
5 - Decide where you want the gradient to start fading and where you want no fill-in at all
6 - Click where you want to start and drag to where you want to stop, release mouse button
7 - Adjust the opacity of the layer with the gradient in it. I find 6-12% is usually about right for colour but can use more in B&W
8 - If you don't like the position, angle or steepnes of gradient just delete the layer and repeat from step 4



You can combine a number of them at different opacities to get more powerful effects for example here with 2 gradients on the sky and one on the foreground to focus attention on the car: