[ratpack] Re: Does this work?
- From: "Larry Knight" <Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:43:20 -0700
Ray,
I like it better, but that guy is still standing there, I am sorry to
say.
(sorry for this flurry of e-mails, I'll quit now)
Resend if you do clone brush him out, I like the shot!!
Lar
-----Original Message-----
From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Ray Buck
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 2:20 PM
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Does this work?
Larry, your comments about PhotoShop are exactly what I was describing.
But again, it may be a Mac mindset...or maybe you just have to use it so
much that it finally becomes intuitive.
I attached the shot of the bike with the whole background monochrome.
Maybe I'll just clone brush the guy out completely.
RtR
At 11:17 AM 11/2/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Ratpackers
>Well I am vertical again if a little wobbley. How was miller on sat?
>the weather looked wonderful, at least out or my bed room window with
>half swollen shut eyes (ok, maybe a little exaggeration). I need to see
>pics gentlemen!!! I have not checked all of my email yet, so forgive me
>if you already sent some. I just wanted to comment on Ray's de-colored
>photo.
>
>I like it. But, I think if you left the sky b&w too it would draw you
>eye more to just the motorcycle. My eye went from the bike to the sky
>and on the way to the sky it stopped at the guy in the background. Just
>my thoughts.
>
>As to your testing of Photoshop, thank you for sharing that. I have a
>copy of CS2 on my pc and struggle with the interface. It doesn't work
>like a lot of other photo editing tools. It can do amazing stuff, but
>some of the simple basic things I want done in a hurry: crop, sharpen,
>saturation, contrast Are a little harder to get too. The menu's are NOT
>intuitive to me. I like you have spent my career using windows and I
>have very little time on an apple/mac (although as buggy as windows is,
>I am not sure I haven't made a mistake) so maybe that is the crux of
>our problem. I found a feature in CS2 call liquify and it is amazing.
>You can take a woman with wide hips and shrink them in, truly amazing.
>But I think you have to commit to photoshop to really use it. I am not
>ready to commit (cost, time, works better on apple). I also use corel's
>product and it is more intuitive to me, but I use a few other products
>too. Windows Live Photo Gallery to sharpen, crop, straighten, contrast,
>saturation and a few others. I use paint.net to adjust the size of the
>files and take the color out like Ray has done in the picture he sent
>of the bike.
>I even use an old one called ACDSEE to grade some of my pics because it
>seems to give me a clearer picture with my monitor. Then I use
>photoshark to do the water marks. I think that Corel's product does all
>of this, if I would take the time to learn. My wife just bought
>photoshop elements, I have yet to play with it. Boy that was a ramble
>wasn't it.
>
>Later Larry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of Ray Buck
>Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:43 PM
>To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [ratpack] Does this work?
>
>I've begun going back to the photos I took at each salt flats event and
>looking at 'em a little closer cuz I'd reserved a space for the "rest
>of the story" on my web site. So I came up with this shot I'd taken of
>a bike at Speed Week:
>
>http://www.chevyasylum.com/temp/20090809_0094r8x.jpg
>
>I liked the shot of the bike (although it's a bit dark) but found my
>eyes going to the dude in the background with the video cam. So I
>played with things a little bit and decided to "uncolor" him and the
>other parts of the upper background. Then I realized that I'd wiped
>the sky out. So I had to redo it and leave the sky alone...more or
>less. This is the result.
>
>http://www.chevyasylum.com/temp/20090809_0094r8.jpg
>
>This is kind of a takeoff on Larry's "flaming Mazda" which I REALLY
>like. So whaddya think? Does it decrease the distraction of the guy
>with the camera? Or would ya just put the bike on a plain vanilla
>background? I could do that, but it would be a little more work.
>
>Thanks,
>
>RtR
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