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That first one makes a nice intro shot if you were to throw up a proper project gallery :banana:

The last two pics here are great. The BW is the winner for me. The shades are in the right spots and composition is very strong. I don't think you could have improved it easily. nice work.. so did you get around to taking all of these over this weekend?

Kory, thats amazing man! You have some serious skill, dude. How was the keyboard shot achieved? I noticed you rearranged your keyboard to spell PROJECT 365, but how did you get them to "glow"?

Random photoshoot I did today of my car, nothing special but found a few interesting locations and did what I could:

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Basis of my new sig:

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And this is something I thought about as I was leaving, so turned around and gave it a go. Havent decided if I love it or not, but we all need to try something new, right?

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Rest are here

Thanks Mat and Rhys :ermm:

Yeah i'm digging the black and white also! It was weird, that couple was out there for about 3 minutes and they randomly stood still (relatively) for 25 seconds haha. I didn't even notice them.

I took 2 of these for 2 days ( been so busy!) and didn't want to miss a day. I Was going to try an idea where if i missed a day i would use a placeholder (like a post-it note with the day) but i didn't want that :banana:

Yeah i got a project 365 gallery on my website! I could change it. It would be cool, i'll try it out, thanks for the idea.

As for how i PP'd it. I wanted to use the keyboard and black everything out except PROJECT 365 but then i knew it would just look like a black image with the text and you wouldn't be able to tell it was a keyboard. Tried to clone everything around, but would take way too long because lighting on each key was so different and cbf lol.. So i did it the easy way and just ripped the keys off.

To get it to "pop" I just duplicated a layer changed the blending mode to Screen (lightens it) and used a layer mask and painted PROJECT 365. Then duplicated another layer and changed the blending mode to multiply (darkens) and painted the rest of the keyboard. IF you hold alt then click layer mask it inverts it, so that you can paint in parts you want, without the rest of the image being affected. In my case, painted project 365 instead of painting the whole keyboard (if that makes sense, probably just confused you.. never mind!).

Haha sorry.. Forgot to comment on your photos also! Nice pics. Nice, simple, clean and sharp :D Although i think i might of preferred it without the headlights on maybe?

Well pretty much open the image in photoshop - CTRL + J duplicate the layer, at the top of the layer palette will be opacity etc.. there will be a drop down menu that says "Normal" change that to multiply/screen/wahtever you want. Thats how you change blending modes.

Layer masks - Down the bottom of the layers palette there will be a icon that kind of looks like a camera this is the layer mask icon. Click that and it adds a layer mask to your current layer. It will be white or black. Press B for brush and change your colour to the opposite colour (white or black or just press D to get white black then X to alternate) and paint as you wish :) To see what you have painted press the "\" key, underneath backspace.

Hope this has helped.

I am adding a DESKTOPS section to my website if anyone would like desktops, just tell me which ones. Will be up in about 2 days.

Thanks!

Kory

Howdy. After being happy with the clean up I found the location to be uninspiring and gay. (not that there's anything wrong with that haha)

SO here's the final product (probably) with that pic I had up earlier.

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CC please. How can I make it better? What parts of it work for you?

Howdy. After being happy with the clean up I found the location to be uninspiring and gay. (not that there's anything wrong with that haha)

SO here's the final product (probably) with that pic I had up earlier.

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CC please. How can I make it better? What parts of it work for you?

hey mat i dont know if you take criticism from a teenager but i got some suggestions...the setting being a sunset, the car should be quite a bit darker....and to make it look that little bit more realistic you should cut the stuff you see from the old background in the windows out and then darken the new parts behind the windows to make it look real..

CC please. How can I make it better? What parts of it work for you?

Probably not too much you can do about it but the number plate is annoying. Being one of the lighter big things your eyes are drawn to it and it shouldn't be the main focus. Other thing I would do is delete the stickers on the windscreen (the two corner ones anyway - owner might want the middle one). CS5 Content Aware Fill FTW

Normally the letters on the plate would be there. just took them off because a certain somone is anal about having plates on the net for no real reason. it's just easier for me to blank them ;/

so next time i'll try to darken the rear of car a bit so it doesn't stick out as much and that should do fine. thanks for the input African Americans :down:

Looks the goods, Mat. Damn I wish had those photoshop skills!

Anyway, I'd try to delete the front plate, maybe darken it so its just a "black hole" if that makes sense, then continue the background into the rear windows.

The rest of it looks fine, because when using umbrella lighting in a real situation like that, the whole car will be lit like that anyway.

The desktop section is finally up on my site! Please see this link: Desktops!

Please comment and let me know what you think and if you would like to see more desktops i'd be open to suggestions but looking at adding 2-3 a week hopefully :/

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