nancymarti

[huntress]

I just finished looking at your album and wanted to let you know that I thought it was awsome. I love your work. I really loved the card. That looked like a photo of real card not something put together with a software program. I'm assuming you have additional plug-ins. How did you do the tool?

I was also impressed with the Homecoming page. I assume you had a page in mind when you asked them to pose for photos.

Of course nature and wildlife always strike a cord with me.

[Robyn]

Hi Lynn,

Yes Nancy is one of our 'stars' on the forum. Her gallery is one of my favourites.

[NMarti]

Huntress
Thank you so much. Actually the collage is all fake. Let me explain - the picture of them in the top left where she is pinning on his corsage was cut out of a picture taken in the dining room. The lower left was taken there by the lake but it had a dead tree in it so I had to remove the tree. The two in the upper right are just shots with frames. Now the confusing part. The picture of Ryan holding the frame is actually one cut from another shot and I moved his arm from the elbow down to "hold" the frame. The picture of Trisha is actually the same one from the top right - just flipped, shadow reversed and then I cut her arm off at the elbow, rotated it and repaired it to make it look like she was holding the frame. The picture they are holding is fake - I took the waterfall picture in Nashville and then cut them out of another picture and added them to make it look like they were standing there. This was then moved into the frame. That whole section has about 10 layers so I could get things positioned right. I spent several days on it but it is one of my favorite things I have done.

[NMarti]

:o Thank you Robyn. The feeling is mutual.

[Wendy]

Hi Nancy ...

That is such a great montage ... sometime when you are doing images one just seems to work out perfectly and that certainly is one of those images.

I love the last one that you have added .... neat idea and it looks really good :)

Wendy

[huntress]

Robyn, I enjoyed looking through yours too. I remember your black and white squares from the pheudo challange.

I figured the background were changed but wouldn't have guessed about the arms etc. I did that with a class project but changed objects not body parts. We had to combine 5 or more photos to make a beast. The cave (same cave from the gallery) and person in front are real the rest is not. I used a bush for the body, tree trunk for the face, parts of street lights for the eyes, a back hoe for the arms which I changed via edits like you described so they weren't all in the same position. The legs were a vent from the side of a building and the wings from another structure. I can appreciate your efforts after doing this one.

Can you tell me about the fabric around the card? Is that faux too?

[NMarti]

If you mean the mother's day card - well - there are several elements there.

The green stripe, the tulle ribbon and the frayed edge frame are from Linda Sattgast's scrappers site. I joined over there and there are monthly downloads for members. This was from April I believe. The cutout was a custom shape that Wendy did to help me out. The charm was just a stock custom shape and I applied a bevel and a layer style to give it the 3-d look. I downloaded some from about.com that had silver centers with gold edge trim and I liked the way it looked on there. Just added text and that's about it. Oh - the picture is mine from my birthday flowers.

[Wendy]

Just thought I would mention that I have done a mini tutorial on how to do the cut out effect on a card ... and I'm hoping that it will be very posted very early next month.

I promised that I would do one at the time but other thing overtook it ... so I do appologise for the delay ...

Wendy

[NRiceDesigns]

Nancy - FAKE? What? You mean some of the creations on the forum/gallery are F-A-K-E? :D What is the world coming to when you can't believe everything you see? ;) Chuckle, chuckle <LOL>

Seriously, I tend to question evey photograph / design / creation whether online or in magazines or TV b/c you never really know, do you?

By the way Nancy... the Mother's Day card is a fav of mine.

[NMarti]

Nita,
Thank you. Of course now when I DO happen to take a really good picture and show it to my family they say "yeah right - its fake" or "well anyone can make it look good with that software you use". I get no respect.:rolleyes: :D

[huntress]

NMati, I had to laugh at your comment. When I was working on my butterfly stained glass (http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/view_img.php?id=8496) my husband asked me if I was working on a fake photo. I told him the photo was very real but I was just embelishing it with a stained glass effect.

The tulle ribbon and the frayed edge frame are what interested me most. I was affraid you say something like that. I thought about joining Linda Sattgast's scrappers site but was holding off on that (just upgraded to 4, subscribe to this site and hardly scratched the surface of the tutorials here) but maybe I'll break down and subscribe there too. I've been neglecting all else since I borrowed that dump book on PE3 which got me started on this and eventually lead me here :rolleyes: I promised myself I would concentrate on a project I started long ago but haven't touched in nearly two years and my son is getting impatient. Now I wish I could use elements to finish his room instead of painting it (http://members.aol.com/craft2decor8/SeaRoom.html) If I subscribe to that and learn all sorts of new things I may never get back to painting and woodworking.

Nancy "Seriously, I tend to question evey photograph / design / creation whether online or in magazines or TV b/c you never really know, do you?" How true! My cousin is always sending me photos and tell her they are fakes but sometimes I cannot really tell.

[NRiceDesigns]

Huntress, I checked out your Sea Room in progress & it is beautiful! I hope you share photos with us upon completion of the project.