Vegas Pictures

[Mr Noble]

A few pics from a recent trip to Sin City and a Harley cruise up to the Valley of Fire.

Comments and criticism welcome for newbie.














>> Edited by Mr Noble on Monday 24th October 23:09

[kojak]

Some great shots.

[_VTEC_]

Really like 1 & 3.

[cvp]

Number 2 is calling out for a bit of spot colour treatment and I really like numbers 4 and 5, both well executed.

chris

[antonyb]

very nice indeed.

i personally would go for consistancy with simple thin black borders on all of them... the orange line on the street scene really detracts. The photos are well enough framed to hold their own without any help IMHO

>> Edited by antonyb on Tuesday 25th October 08:44

[Mrs Fish]

I like them all

I've said it before and I'll say it again I WANT TO GO TO VEGAS

[Mr Noble]

Agreed about the orange boarder.

I struggle to make a thinner black boarder in PS. use the crop method, selecting the whole pic then expanding slightly and it fils in with what ever background colour I pre-selected, but I find that that is the thinnest I can make the crop extension.

Any tips?

GN

[Mr Noble]

cvp said:

Number 2 is calling out for a bit of spot colour treatment and I really like numbers 4 and 5, both well executed. chris

Meaning? Is that like, desaturate, hostory brush just on flag type of thing?

GN

[Mrs Fish]

Mr Noble said:

cvp said: Number 2 is calling out for a bit of spot colour treatment and I really like numbers 4 and 5, both well executed. chris Meaning? Is that like, desaturate, hostory brush just on flag type of thing? GN

Simplest way, Duplicate layer, top layer desaturate then you can use the eraser tool or lasso to delete whatever you want to show colour from the layer underneath.

If you get what I mean?

[Gruffy]

Mr Noble said:

I struggle to make a thinner black boarder in PS. Any tips?

Easiest way is to 'select all', then go to 'edit > stroke'. Set it to 'inside' and choose your width (I go for 5 pixels at screen res).

While not changing the dimensions of the image, this does of course encroach into your crop. If absolute precision is needed then you also just use 'canvas size' and expand it by 10 pixels in both directions.

Gruffy

[bacchus180]

don't spot colour them... love the rich saturation.. if you do SC it will ruin them... make you look like a relic from the 80's with your first lesson in PS

[Bacardi]

bacchus180 said:

don't spot colour them... love the rich saturation.. if you do SC it will ruin them... make you look like a relic from the 80's with your first lesson in PS

Agree. I thought it was just be me, feed up with seeing 'spot colour' on every other thread. Will star burst filters be the next fad?

[Gruffy]

Bacardi said:

bacchus180 said: don't spot colour them... love the rich saturation.. if you do SC it will ruin them... make you look like a relic from the 80's with your first lesson in PS Agree. I thought it was just be me, fed up with seeing 'spot colour' on every other thread.

[bacchus180]

how about vignetting with soft focus and sepia toning...

[Gruffy]

Cough

Gruffy

[antonyb]

Mr Noble said:

Agreed about the orange boarder. I struggle to make a thinner black boarder in PS. use the crop method, selecting the whole pic then expanding slightly and it fils in with what ever background colour I pre-selected, but I find that that is the thinnest I can make the crop extension. Any tips? GN

easiest way is to use the marquee select tool - ctrl+A for select all - right click in the selected area and choose "stroke" from the menu... making sure you use black as the colour.



that said the thickness you have on the first pic is fine, looks good.

>> Edited by antonyb on Tuesday 25th October 12:19

[Bacardi]

Gruffy said:

Cough Gruffy

It's a fair cop.... you cheeky so and so .

Although, I think he meant all three together, you only get a house point for soft focus (although not done with filters, PS or any other currently available software), no vignetting or sepia there.

There's nothing wrong with soft/selective focus, vignetting, toning, spot colour or combinations, as long as it's tastefully done and used in moderation.... not add nauseum.

IMHO

[Gruffy]

I'm only toying with you

Gruffy

[matt gravy]

bacchus180 said:

don't spot colour them... love the rich saturation.. if you do SC it will ruin them... make you look like a relic from the 80's with your first lesson in PS

SPOT COLOUR IS THE GREATEST THING EVER.

loser

[Bacardi]

[robertdeniro] "you toying with me?..... you toying with me?"[/robertdeniro]

By the way, just to keep on topic, I like Mr Nobles pics just as they are .