Comments on: Episode 075: Urban Paradise (1)

By: littletank

littletank — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:32:59 +0000

That really is back to the paper and darkroom days.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:19:11 +0000

Perhaps an old habit? I don’t know, I like the “black paper strip” method more.

By: Florian Ludwig

Florian Ludwig — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:19:17 +0000

Hi,

while testing your crop-decision you created a new layer with a black rectangle. Is there a reason why not to use the crop tool it self? I found it to be very usefull as its hides (to a leve you decide!) the stuff you would crop.

Greetz

By: Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:42:02 +0000

There are more than one ways to crop an image. And perhaps it’s even easier to do good with no knowledge of the location and the shooting.

Here http://forum.meetthegimp.org/index.php/topic,181.msg1396.html#msg1396 is a different crop from the forum. Perhaps you can post yours too?

By: peterson

peterson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:26:51 +0000

Thanks a lot for the show!

I just started to read Welcome to Oz and was delighted to see you go through an example.

Concerning the “crop-decision” I played with the .xcf file and really would like to include as much of the neon sign and the corresponding reflection as possible. I think it works well for the atmosphere and is a nice symmetry/line (whatever you call it) connecting foreground and background. Those reflections really come out nice, when you darken the border (e.g. a soft light layer to vignette and focus on the person in the background).

Looking forward to next week

peterson.

By: Ger

Ger — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:43:52 +0000

Before I downloaded and watched the video I was doing some revision.
I had been looking he video about selective sharpening. Then I looked into the website from tipsfromthetopfloor dot com.
(feeling homesick?… maybe a little )
This episode is just the thing I liked to see.
Concerning the path. No, I don’t make layers with comments for what to improve or change. Yes, I think everyone does, I look, study and decide what to change or to improve thinking about the aim of the photo. Where or how will it be placed or viewed.
So I say, you presented a nice and welcome episode again!

By: Bob K.

Bob K. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:41:42 +0000

Good episode Rolf. Nice to see how you are taking a single image and teaching allot of the basics of image editing with this and future episodes.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:17 +0000

Right, you have to find your own path – and adapt at every image. And I am no real photographer, just an amateur. So this can’t be real advice, just an example.

Versace stresses the need to build a conscious workflow that then sinks into the automatic behavior repertoire. I am far away from that point.

By: jgack

jgack — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:31:49 +0000

I really enjoyed getting a look at your thinking processs in this epiosode.

Not that everyone will follow the same mental path nor that the questions will even be the same for every photo but nevertheless it’s a great example of how one might “find the picture” in the photo.

..jim