PET Comments on Creative Homework Week #41

[lisabee]

Please post your comments and questions here.

Here is the link to the thread for your images
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?p=326160#post326160

[Martha]

Lisa, thanks for the tutorial. I like your photo-very Halloweenish (is this a word?)
Tony, Like yours and the orange color you added to the lens flare. My brush did not work so well.
Smiles, I love that tree! Very appropriate for Halloween-kinda spooky-looking! Great photo!
Martha

[lisabee]

Tony - thanks for showing the before and after of this. I very much like the added effects you got from the levels adj layer and photo filter, something I shall try later :). The picture with the light has more atmosphere and moodiness imho, also succeeds in taking the eye to front standing stone.

Smiles - wow, that worked well behind the moon, your picture looks great!

Martha - thanks for your kind words. :)
I very much like the effects you have achieved and thanks for sharing the steps you took. Overall spooky and extremely suitable for halloween. :D

Lisa

[smiles]

Just wanted to say Thanks Lisa for your time and compliments!
Martha thanks for the compliment!
This really adds great touch to the late evening and night shots!

[lisabee]

Bamagirl
lovely photo and the lights look wonderful. :)

Lisa

[Aussie Nan]

Oh dear, every crowd has one!

I am missing something. Where it says control D to get rid of selection, and then use the move tool on your lens layer to move it about - my whole picture moves, not just the lens flare. Sorry, I have tried a few times before posting.:confused: (I have two layers in my pallet, the original and the lens flare layer)

Toni

[lisabee]

Oh dear, every crowd has one!

I am missing something. Where it says control D to get rid of selection, and then use the move tool on your lens layer to move it about - my whole picture moves, not just the lens flare. Sorry, I have tried a few times before posting.:confused: (I have two layers in my pallet, the original and the lens flare layer)

Toni

Hi Toni,
if the whole picture is moving, then that picture layer is active.
In your layers palette click on the lens flare layer to make that active, then select the move tool, you will see an outline around the area that was the black square and you can move that.
If you accidentally click outside that area with the move tool selected then it will move the picture layer.
hth

Lisa :)

[Aussie Nan]

Thanks Lisa. I went away for a cuppa and came back to it. Duh! Where it says make new layer....yup, you guessed it.....I was actually duplicating the image layer!:rolleyes:

Toni

[lisabee]

Toni,
I'm glad you got the right layer to move - that happens to me too :).

I like your second image better, how the light has the ripple of the water in it looks really good.
I was wondering whether tweaking the opacity of the lens flare layer makes much difference thinking of how light you might want something to be, I haven't tried that. Or I guess you can do a hue sat adjustment layer to affect just the lens flare layer, to alter the lightness or change the colour slightly.
If you are like me you try all these things and then often decide it is best the way you had it first of all :rolleyes:

Lisa

[Aussie Nan]

Oh Lisa, you have made me feel as though I am finally getting somewhere with all this PSE'ing.......you see, I had already lowered the opacity, and done a hue/sat to change the colour of the lens flare slightly. (It was much more pink before)
Now, I may not have done it expertly:), but I am already pleased that I thought of doing it at all, it means I must be on the right track. thank you thank you thank you

Toni

[lisabee]

Bill - lovely car shot - as always - and I like the straight lines emanating from the lens flare :)

Coco - wow, two great night shots, particularly like the sunset one.
Yeah, don't worry about the brush, I tried several before I got one I liked and then ended up just using it for a kind of highlighting effect.

Lisa

[qcocoq]

Thanks, Lisa

It's so nice of you to take the time for all of us. At least I'm lucky to have subscribed when I did. I've already learned so much here and I never even got a newsletter.

[Bamagirl]

Lisa,

Thanks for the compliment and thanks for such a fun assignment. I have used this technique several times since the homework. I can now put lighting effects exactly where I want them.

Clara

[lisabee]

Lisa,

Thanks for the compliment and thanks for such a fun assignment. I have used this technique several times since the homework. I can now put lighting effects exactly where I want them.

Clara

thanks Clara, :)

I'm really glad it's useful.
It's not something that perhaps suits every photo (like an arty style), but when you need a light point or highlight, then it is spot on - pardon the pun :D :D

Lisa

[lisabee]

San - your woodland shot looks very tranquil and the light works well I think :).

Martha - lovely car shot and style. I'm presuming it is something to do with the blend modes why a faint square edge is showing up, but I don't know which combination would create that.

Lisa

[qcocoq]

Martha,

It's a cool picture. You might want to start out with a circle selection instead of a square. That's what I did to create the sun in mine.

[lisabee]

Nolan,

lovely to have you join us :)
I wonder have you get a blend mode on your flower picture other than normal?
why I'm asking is that the light effect is hard to see (unless it is my eyes) and the blend modes do react differently with one another.

do join us again on Wednesday, new assignment day :D

Lisa

[lisabee]

Jo,

lovely image, I really like the colours and composition and how you've used the lights :)
I haven't tried that 'European' effect from the mag yet, will have to have a go, it's lovely on your picture :)

Lisa

[jojo99]

Thanks Lisa, doing the background was fun. I forgot to mention I actually lowered the opacity of the background to let some of the main image through, just seemed to be too much of the blue right beside the bottle.
Jo

[emkayess65]

Hi,
I wrestled with this one.
But it was still fun.

Everyones images are great.
Amazing ideas and imagination.

Coco, I think you are on to something - starting with a circle.
Then the square outline would not be so noticable.
I also had problems with the brush. The image was not centered so the selection went over the sides. Which means part of it was cut off by the straight side. Numerous redos.
Coco your sunset is super.

mks

[lisabee]

Hi Marie,

your image is really interesting :), I like it.
Yeah I'm not sure why sometimes the edge of the square shows through :confused:, I tried on several pics and didn't have that happen.
I thought about whether it is possible to erase the edges a little, but you say you tried that. I thought it might be different blending modes reacting together, but I'm not sure, if I find out I'll let you know,

Lisa

PS tomorrow's is more straightforward

[Martha]

Qcocoq, I didn't think to try a circle-thanks for your suggestion.
Your sunset is lovely!
Martha

[qcocoq]

Thanks mks and Martha.
Coming from you 2 that's quite a compliment because both of your galleries are dynamic.
Looking forward to it Lisa. I thought you were a night owl like me Lisa but then I figured out you're a few time zones away. This is definitely keeping me up nights.