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I worked with this picture today....
Your advice and critique are very welcome...
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Wow, that looks really good on a few different levels! Firstly, the tone and lighting is fantastic. Secondly, the watercolour effect is really nice!
Well done!
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I really like the strong key line around the outside of the fruit and basket. The background is also wonderful. Smart Blur and ink outlines?
When I do strong simplification and processing on photos like this, I find that they cannot be enlarged very much without losing quality. If you do not already have a large file of this photo - blow it up to 11x14 @ 300 dpi (or similar high resolution) and see how it looks.
At this resolution and size, it looks great.
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Looks just like a drawing/painting - wonderful work.
Canon stuff.
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This is lovely. I like the tones and the painted quality.
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Thanks so much. I am very happy you liked it ...
Jules,
I took the picture with an umbrella and my flash. I tried first with black background. That was the original idea but my black background is so ugly... I will go and buy some cardboards today. I have seen some pictures worked with black background that turn out very beautiful.
Toad,
I worked this time with artistic>paint daubs filter. It simpliflies the colors and detail and sharps the edges. It gave me a pink color in the displace area so I refined with clone tool. Then to give a bit of color in the edges I worked with find edges and the regular treatment desaturate and levels, but this time I worked with threshold too, to have clean lines and no mid tones in the background. The black lines is where I was a bit unsure, since I don't know if they look good that dark or less darker would be better.
When I cropped my picture I didn't set the resolution, and I work with the picture without resizing. Here is what I have in the image size. Should I change it to 300 dpi?
Thanks Jim, Chris, Aine for your comment...
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No further cropping needed. I was suggesting that 300 dpi was a minimum nopt a maximum. I think the black key lines look good - thanks for showing your workflow for this technique.
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Toad Wrote:No further cropping needed. I was suggesting that 300 dpi was a minimum nopt a maximum. I think the black key lines look good - thanks for showing your workflow for this technique.
Thank you...
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I like the backdrop and the effect you applied, and the picture seems to have been beautifully lit to begin with.
the only thing I slightly dislike are the strong edged of some of the fruit, can you soften them a bit?
Uli
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Thanks Uli....
Yes, I know what you mean. The black line is not even in all fruits. I'll take that into account and correct it in my next try...
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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