Calling All Photo-shop Pros

[KaluMinati]

took a crack at it for fun

Edited December 11, 2004 by KaluMinati

[Leldorion]

 

Did I recreate the effect: No.

Did I have fun messing with the cat pic: Yes.

[Silverfox]

@ leldorion: very cool! that is actually very very useful.

 

 

let me provide you with the slight smaller original (the original i 5meg!) this one is 200kb-ish and on imageshack

 

 

wow, im very happy with the responses - i have pointed the guy using the picture to this thread. if anyone manupiulates the large image, repost the image via good ol' shack.

 

 

thanks again people - very very helpful

 

edit: its kinda big eh?! sorry!

[Leldorion]

hmm...I was wondering...is it okay to use this pic on my site? This is slightly compressed btw.

 

[Vasto]

The original photo was at a Stock site. That means you can use it in non-profit things for free. If you use it in a mag cover, you need permission. If you use it in a devPrint you need permission.

[JakSmit]

Hello,

Thanks very much for helping me out.

I am the person who has asked to use the pic.

 

What I am trying to do is take these elements frem the devart pic:

glowing blue eyes, blue glow on the rest of the body and lastly

the very vibrant white wiskers.

 

I am not going to do what they have done and make the cat

contrasting light on its face and dark the rest of it.

 

So far I have changed the colour of the eyes and the nose, by

duplicating the layer, selecting the two eyes and nose, inverting

the selection and deleting the selection. I then inverted the selection

again so I have the eyes and nose selected and then used the colour replacement

tool to make them blue. Once I had done that I applied an outer glow of

the same colour and set the blending mode to colour.

 

Sounds complex, but its not, I am not a brilliant designer, I am better at

flash as you'l probably see from my website which is currently being

redesigned.

 

Here is what I have come up with so far:

 

 

If any of you know how I would do those wiskers vibrant white then it would

be a great help. I hope to have the wiskers really white and the background

really dark.

 

Thanks!

[Silverfox]

The original photo was at a Stock site. That means you can use it in non-profit things for free. If you use it in a mag cover, you need permission. If you use it in a devPrint you need permission.

as quoted from another forum: the bumposaurus is back!

 

No, i set the picture up as to ask permission for all use. you can set the level of rights - JakSmit kindly asked my permission, be it commercial or not as commercial work can be non-profit too.

 

JakSmit, that looks awesome - i like it a lot.

 

Ledlorian, so long as you give credit where it is due, feel free to use the picture for your site. A link to:

 

http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=profile&l=ja_kemp

 

is my gallery page.

[JakSmit]

Ok,

I have messed around with the colour, contrast and levels a bit

and started work on dodging the wiskers to make them glow:

 

I don't know why I said snow cat as I don't want it to look like it

is in the snow, I guess its just because its winter...

[Leldorion]

The whiskers are a little out of focus as far as the pic goes and a good deal of contrast is needed in order to get them to look like the ones in the deviant art pic.

[JakSmit]

how would I go about increasing the contrast?

Make the background darker?

[Joost27]

here is waht i came up with sorry for the wait i had to work today so it delayed my progress..

 

 

56k warning do not wait for this unles u want 1.39MB

 

 

[JakSmit]

Thanks very much for taking the time to put something together.

Would you mind explaining the different techniques that you used

in order to create it? I am guessing that you used colour dodging

on the eyes, but I am not sure about what you did with the fur.

Thanks.