This post has been edited by shinchan^^: Oct 6 2008, 03:53 PM

This post has been edited by shinchan^^: Sep 18 2008, 10:21 AM

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waaahahhhhh....
zio overtook me n timmy!!!!
zio...congrats...u super spammer in d300 V3!

bwahaha yes i was. But now I shall quietly retire

retire?
hahahaha...
u may not have the d300 anymore....
but u r one of the original owners...
so u must stay...

dont be selfish zio. share your pics here too. i see that u post at d40 a lot.
jump ship and abandon your shipmates ala the current political scene?

Zio is one who actively takes photos no matter which camera he uses. Great work too. Kudos to him!

lol then must get shinchan to call Henry come here too



Haha got rating system ma. AFter post shots from other camera, then i kena negative rating



thanks man I just have more time recently. The rest busy working ma. thats why can afford D300

In while I'm still in the first page!

me too i just woke up btw

while you are still groggy, perhaps you would divulge how u pp-ed the titen works and morning dew. very nice

after wyluxx mentioned it...
yeah...
ur workflow is indeed interesting!

yea, do share. do not tell us about fracti??llus (cant even remember the word). i got enuf natural wrinkles already.
in fact you can make an e-book ala dr TBH. i would buy one if reasonable priced la...

This post has been edited by WyLuxx: Sep 18 2008, 11:25 AM

I think Zio is secretly saving up to get the new Canon 5d MkII

alirty for that cat shot, i used two plugins mainly. lucisart and fractalius. first of all, it always have to start with a relatively good photo. Or at least a photo with some kind of mood. it doesn't have to have perfect lighting. just get it close to where you want it to be in your head. spot metered on the cat's white fur to keep ze details. and that's about it camera wise.

now in photoshop. the main thing to do is get rid of some stuff mainly the noise. I use noiseware. the right side of the cat which i filled with black had some ubat nyamuk there. so after lucisizing the cat a bit, duplicate layer, added a levels adjustment layer and pulled in the shadows and pushed the highlights. Masked out the cat with a low opacity brush.

next copy paste all layers, and yeah this is why i get such huge files, i'm using the non destructive method. ok so now i use the eye dropper tool and clicked it on the darkes part of the phot just in case. and used a brush to completely blacken the right side of the photo. at the edges near the cat i switched to a lower opacity.

okay now that we're almost there, i fired up fractalius, adjusted it so that it covers only the highlights with some saturation and applied. and finally a hue/saturation adjustment layer to get rid of excess color.

some dodge and burn on the highlights and shadows, from the window frames all the way to the curtains and cat. and another levels layer for extra punch on the highlights.

phew!! ok for the morning dew, is almost something like the cat but less. much less.

edit: and yeah i don't think fractalius works well with people shots. XD but im working on it tho. I love the higlights it covers.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Sep 18 2008, 11:31 AM

thanks 1=1 for the in-depth steps. have to admit i will need a few reads to understand the steps. now i have to google lucisart... what the ---- is that?

NEVER! I love Nikon colours too much to jump to any other brand



you lost me after the camera wise part thats why noobs like me will end up with plain shots while amir goes around sending wow factor