Matt's tutorial

[apasskey]

I don't have any panorama pictures so I tried one with just a photo that I had on my computer. It was taken on our trip to Argentina but I think we were actually in Brazil when it was taken. Maybe....I actually can't remember for sure.


http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1XsJQwNJF0ZuXz5Il7zysrfEn7a8KG

I don't really like the white borders and I somehow got one photo's border off the edge of the photo but on the whole, I feel good about it.

[Norm F]

That works Andie. Very cool shot!

[kayser]

Good choice for this tutorial, and something different than we've all been doing.

[Wendy]

Hi Andie ...

Oh I like that ... its a good photograph and a neat twist on the original tutorial. Nice work !! :)

Wendy

[NMarti]

Andie
That is a cool alternate version. You did a very nice job on it and it is a really wonderful shot.

[crljean]

Andie - I love it! I haven't tried this one yet because I couldn't find a panorama. You've inspired me to try it with a "regular" shot.

[jo]

I probably made the small snapshots too tall and thin, but here's my try at it.

http://www.chambersofmyheart.com/thumbnails/elements03/manarola_windows_t.jpg (http://www.chambersofmyheart.com/bigpics/elements03/manarola_windows_f.jpg)

[NMarti]

Jo
I don't think they are too small at all. I think it is wonderful. Great job.

[Wendy]

Hi Jo ...

Oh I do like that ... I think that having the last image landscape instead of portrait is perfect in this one.

Its a nice little touch :)

Wendy

[mom to 4]

I think they are both great!

Jo:

I don't think they are too tall and narrow, they look terrific!

thanks to both of you for a mini vacation ....looking at your pics.....

[apasskey]

Hi Jo - I love how the last frame is lying down. It adds some more interest to the photo as a whole. Nice, nice work!!!

[kayser]

Jo-beautiful and the last picture turned is a nice touch.

[Wendy]

OK then ..

... here is my try:

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1SC6gpeh2AglwI1GpkDhK16CxzhGN7_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1SC6gpeh2AglwI1GpkDhK16CxzhGN7)

Umm that statue in the middle kind of reminds me of someone :eek:

Wendy

[karen donnybrook]

Wendy, "your try" is marvellous.

[jo]

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Wendy, your work is outstanding as usual!

[Bayla]

Umm that statue in the middle kind of reminds me of someone :eek:

Me too Wendy. I kept on expecting him to stick his tongue out, or wink an eye....come to think of it, bearing in mind the subject matter of the photo, maybe he should be wearing a red hat with white fur around it:D

Bayla

PS. Loved your version of the tut.

[Wendy]

Bayla ...

Now a winking eye would be kind of suitable :D :D :D

Wendy

[apasskey]

I made another one. It was a 4 X 6 " photo that I cropped to look panoramic.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1mcxAQUU8BqE6WY4PX4thH34lCfPt_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1mcxAQUU8BqE6WY4PX4thH34lCfPt)

Can someone PLEEEEZZZEE tell me how to get rid of the outlines of the roof from my first selection. I didn't notice them until I was all finished and now I can't get rid of them. I tried erasing them, selecting them, cloning over them, painting over them, choosing the background layer, each individual layer....

I wonder if I should flatten all of it and save it as a new photo and try cloning the sky over it that way??? Would that work?

[bwolford]

Andie, it looks like your selection was feathered when you first made it and not feathered when you removed it or moved.

Brice

[NMarti]

Wendy
That is very cool. I love how the elements of the picture all have their frame and yes - the statue does look familiar.....:p

[Robyn]

There are some great interpretations of Matt's tutorial in this thread. I especially love yours Jo.
This is my first try.......

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1FGpwczTXPSfIKx791KByCSttj8ScU0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1FGpwczTXPSfIKx791KByCSttj8ScU0)

[karen donnybrook]

Andie, love your image but I can not help with the problem of the outline :D

Robyn, your image is also very good and I like the way you have the frames taking in the islands and part of the mainlain.

[Robyn]

Second try. I think I like this one better........what do you think?

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/18cfCCTQBMQlVItwkHS6QwcrHUjVML0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=18cfCCTQBMQlVItwkHS6QwcrHUjVML0)

Thanks Karen for your comments.

[Wendy]

Oh Robyn ...

The first one makes a neat image but the second one ... well that is stunning !!! Its a great photograph and and this technique really adds to it ...

Very nice work !! :)

Wendy

[Wendy]

Nancy ...

Ummm .... I thought it was fun :D :D

Do hope that he doesn't mind :eek: :eek:

Wendy

[Robyn]

Thanks Wendy...........I find it very hard to judge my own stuff. The longer I look at it, the more critical I usually become. :)

[karen donnybrook]

Robyn, the first image was great but the second is absolutely stunning :)

[jo]

Robyn, your first one makes me dream of faraway places that I'll never see. But the second one is simply beautiful!

[jo]

I made another one. It was a 4 X 6 " photo that I cropped to look panoramic.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1mcxAQUU8BqE6WY4PX4thH34lCfPt_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1mcxAQUU8BqE6WY4PX4thH34lCfPt)

Can someone PLEEEEZZZEE tell me how to get rid of the outlines of the roof from my first selection. I didn't notice them until I was all finished and now I can't get rid of them. I tried erasing them, selecting them, cloning over them, painting over them, choosing the background layer, each individual layer....

I wonder if I should flatten all of it and save it as a new photo and try cloning the sky over it that way??? Would that work?
Andie, it looks as if you got your layers mixed up when you were working on it -- the outline in the center looks like a stroke layer by itself or maybe on the wrong layer. You might just start over.

[Robyn]

Thank you Jo.

This is getting a bit addictive. Here's another one.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/128Ofxjse6mdsY1V1jzTS0A3V1hUP0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=128Ofxjse6mdsY1V1jzTS0A3V1hUP0)

I find that it is far better to fill in the template 'shapes' with black or white and reduce the opacity.........then you can see better where you want to position them.

[Norm F]

Andie,

Those line look like they'd be fairly easy to remove with the clone tool.

Great work everyone. Some really neat stuff being posted here.

[Wendy]

Robyn ...

I love the way you have picked up the autumnal colours for the background ... the whole thing just looks so nice :)

Wendy

[NMarti]

Robyn
I like that but the one in your gallery is really beautiful. What a wonderful shot.

[Robyn]

Thank you Wendy and Nancy.

[apasskey]

Hi Norm - I tried cloning as that seems to be my favorite boo-boo tool but it won't do anything.

[kayser]

Robyn- Glad you joined in on this tutorial- yours are all beautiful!

[cathy]

not great but i did try,
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/cathymiller/birds-everywhere.jpg

hope pic not too big

[Wendy]

Hi Cathy ...

Oh you have done fine with it ... I like the way you have darkened the rest of the image, it certainly makes the birds stand out :)

Wendy

[Deborah]

Darn....I don't know who has the best one...they all look like you could frame them and hang them for art.

Excellent


I did a little different version Better go back and review the video again

Deborah

[jo]

If you mean the one in your gallery, Deborah, your different version looks great!

[Deborah]

Thank you Jo,
I guess there is no right way or wrong way....just a different view ...right?
One thing is if you don't like a project you don't have to save it. erase and start over.....

I like your gallery...especially the stain glass frog. beautiful

back to the drawing board....

Deborah

[ME100FINN]

Here's my version of the tutorial.

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e263/me100finn/?action=view&current=spring-day-pano.png

[Deborah]

Very nice Beatrice

Now I know I better go back and review mine. I'm no way close .....

Deborah

[Wendy]

Hi Beatrice ...

Oh that is so pretty :)

Wendy

[NMarti]

Very Pretty Beatrice. I would love to see that in full bloom. I'll bet it's gorgeous.

[Wendy]

I decided to try another but this time I took the image I made from Dave's tut and used that ...

With all those straight lines it didn't work if I tipped the images over so instead I moved them up and down :)

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1rZ8oihdRXToJvaCbOcCUJBTOnWCJh_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1rZ8oihdRXToJvaCbOcCUJBTOnWCJh)


Wendy

[Robyn]

Wendy.......that just works soooooo well!

[mom to 4]

Wow, Wendy, that is amazing. I need to try that tutorial!

[ME100FINN]

Thanks Deborah, Nancy, Wendy...

The blossoms in that photo ARE actually in full bloom! The trees are huge. They probably lasted the remainder of the week and high winds and rain brought them down more. The viewing season this year was quite short here--it was odd.

I do have another shot that is coveted by most persons stationed here - it has a fuller tree in the background -
http://www.picturetrail.com/gid10653195

I finally got those prints for sale and I need to add some more--hopeful start generating some sales!!

[judystowell]

I should have looked here before I tried Matt's video. I just did one (that I thought turned out pretty well - until I saw what others had done). Anyway, here it is. I guess I'll need to get a little more creative.

Judy

[kayser]

Judy- What are you talking about? You did a great job with this!

[NMarti]

Judy
Let me echo Kay - I think it's beautiful and don't see any need to change anything.

Wendy
That looks like it is straight out of a high-tech magazine of some sort. That is fantastic!

[apasskey]

I wonder if Matt had an inkling of what he would start when he posted this tutorial?? Judy - I love your Tetons photo. I haven't been there in awhile but it appears wonderfully unchabged. Is that old barn still there? I always thought that if I were a horse, I'd love to have that barn as my home - what a great view!!

I redid my picture of the Tower of London and put it in my gallery. This time I forgot to recolor my sky until after I had made all the mini pictures. :o I guess it looks OK, but it still isn't what I had in mind. I think it is tricky to do these multi-step projects in the right order. I sometimes get all finished and realize I want to make a change that will entail redoing everything. Does anyone else do that? Or is there a solution - a way to go back a redo a step in the middle of the project? Just wondering...

[mom to 4]

Anne:

The tower of London looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kayser]

Andie- It does look good!

On the problem of having to redo everything from scratch, I often duplicate layers that I'm making unalterable changes to so that I could go back to the "original" if necessary. On this one, I didn't delete my original shapes as instructed in the tutorial, just turned off the eyeball. That way, I could go back to them and move them around and start from that point rather than having to do EVERYTHING again.

I also don't flatten or merge my layers very often- if I need to do an overall effect I do the "stamp visible" CTRL SHIFT ALT E (or hold down the ALT key while selecting the merge visible command from the layers menu) so that I can play around with a merged copy of the layers but still have all my original layers as separate unharmed layers.

I'm sure more experienced users have more efficient methods but thought I would share mine in case they helped.

[Robyn]

Kay,
I usually do that too.

[Wendy]

Judy ...

You did a great job on it ... !!

... and Andie so did you :)

One of the things I like about this technique is that it is so versatile ... each time you did it you can change things and make it look different :)

Wendy

[NMarti]

Andie
Very nice job!

[Deborah]

Finally I tried Matt's tut. I had a hard time with the scan. found lots of noise in the back ground of my photo.....
Any way this is my attempt.

Deborah

[Wendy]

Deborah ...


Oh that works so well ... its a good image for the technique :)

Wendy

[bwolford]

Scans are tough. They can have noise that's hard to overcome without softening the image.

You can try a light noise reduction... Filter - Noise - Reduce Noise.

Brice

[Deborah]

Brice
Thanks for the tip.
I used the reduce noise, then used my blur tool to smooth it out a bit.
Didnt like the results so I just darken the back ground.
I'll just have to try again.

Thanks again
Deborah

[karen donnybrook]

I have finally had a go at Matt's tutorial and have added it to my gallery - it is the main image.

[Robyn]

That looks most attractive Karen. I love the crawling ants!

Gosh the Margaret River area looks gorgeous. Everyone I know who has been there raves about it.........I'd love to visit. I've only been to W.A. once, and that was about 5 years back I think.

[karen donnybrook]

Thanks for the comments Robyn. That was actually the first ever digital photo I took way back in 2001. I did not realise there were ants on the flowers until I put the image up on the computer :eek: :eek:. Margaret River is a great place to visit but very expensive to buy real estate; we were amazed at how expensive houses and land were :eek:

[jo]

That's beautiful, Karen! What kind of flower is it? I love seeing the unusual-to-me flowers from down under.

[Wendy]

Hey they are real crawling ants :eek:

Karen that is just so good ... nice work on the effect !! :)

Wendy

[kevq]

Karen,
just great!
Kev.:)

[mel]

I love the ants Karen!! Great job on the tutorial :)

[NMarti]

Karen
Wow! That is great work!

[karen donnybrook]

Jo, Wendy, Kev, Mel and Nancy, thanks for the kind comments. That plant has no common name and is the scraggliest, untidy looking plant in the bush with points on the leaves (:eek:) - the botanical name is Hakea amplexicaulis and it flowers between July and October.