finished the globe

[mel]

Here's the outcome of Wendy's globe tut.

The baby in the globe is my beautiful nephew and I thought he looked great in this image :)

http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/2478/ajinglobe3cp.th.jpg (http://img471.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ajinglobe3cp.jpg)

Comments welcome :)

Mel

[Jodi Frye]

Oh how cute is that !! Well done !

[ThomasT]

Great Job!

It looks great!


Thomas

[Daviskw]

Mel

With the gradient behind I get the impression of

YEEHAA WORLD HERE I COME

Butch

[mel]

Thanks guys for the comments.

Butch, that's exactly the impression I was trying to get across........

glad it worked :D :D

Mel

[Wendy]

Hi Mel ...

You really have made an excellent job of doing that ... it a great photograph and that background just finishes it off ..

Butch's comment of ... YEEHAA WORLD HERE I COME. Would make a great title for it !!

I have only one more suggestion ... Work as good as that needs signing :)

Wendy

[mel]

Thanks for the compliment Wendy :)

I will work on that title because it's exactly what I tried to bring across :D

Mel

[Diana]

Mel,

GOOD JOB with the tutorial. The result are terrific and your little nephew is so cute.

Diana

[Jan Ruthig]

Mel,

I love that gradient effect!! Now I have to do that tutorial too!!! It seems there are so many tutorials and so little time. What a great way to learn though!!:D

[NMarti]

Very nicley done! What a little cutie. I like the way the gradient pushes the globe to the foreground.

[Carbone]

This is cute !!

Ray

[kevq]

Mel,
really nice.
Gorgeous baby!
Kev:)

[Teri]

Your nephew is so adorable. How did you make your beautiful gradient?

[Wendy]

Hi Teri ...

Here is a link to a tutorial on making gradients ...

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?p=53422

In the second paragraph it mentions changing the gradient from solid to noise .. I suspect that Mel used an Angle gradient set to noise to get the effect :)

Wendy

[Teri]

Wendy, I followed the instructions in your tutorial. Noise has different choices than Smoothness. I cannot get the colors I want. I moved the slider to adjust the Roughness and moved the color R G B sliders and tried both the Restrict Colors and Randomize options. Noise does use the preset background and foreground colors.

I will try this again tomorrow. I will be watching the Winter Olympics tonight from 8 pm to midnight.

[mel]

In the second paragraph it mentions changing the gradient from solid to noise .. I suspect that Mel used an Angle gradient set to noise to get the effect :)

Wendy

That's exactly how I did it :) I just kept playing around with all the different gradients and angles till I came up with something I really liked for this image.

Just trying out all these different effects is also a good way to learn and see what they are all about ;)

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Mel

[Ellen]

Mel,
I'd like to echo all the praise of your image and others I've seen of yours- especially the duck.
Ellen

[Wendy]

Hi Teri ...

You do need to experiment to get different colours ... try changing the original gradient colours. One its done try adding a Hue & Saturation layer (just sides you shades of the same colour) ow put a white layer below it and reduce the opacity of the gradient layer ... that gives you softer shades ...

Do let us know how you go on :)

Wendy

[bjorg]

Mel,
Cute picture! What I want to know...How did you put the picture into your post? I know how to put in a link but am embarrasssed to say I have no idea how to put the actual thumbnail at the end of a message. Thanks.
Again, Good job on the globe.
BJ

[mel]

Ellen, thank you very much for the compliment :)

BJ, I put the picture in my post through Image shack.
http://imageshack.us/

Upload your picture and then click 'host it', you'll be linked to the next page........once you're there use the first hotlink for forum 1 and copy that link. When you post your message here just paste the link and the thumbnail will be shown in your message. That's all there is to it ;)

Thank you also for the compliment.

Mel

[bjorg]

Thank you mel. I will try and see if I can figure it out.
BJ

[Teri]

Thanks Wendy and Mel. Adjusting the noise radient with hue/saturation and reducing the opacity is an excellent way to get the colors I want. I made an error in my previous post when I said that Noise does use the preset background and foreground colors. What I meant to say is that Noise does NOT use the preset background and foreground colors.