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Beverly Gustafson
{K:1572} 10/23/2002
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Russ, no majic just lots of careful pixel by pixel picking with quick mask, and a small brush. Time consuming, but worth it to get believable results. Thanks again for the suggestion. I actually put this version on my web site.
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Russ Cooper
{K:759} 10/22/2002
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Bev, I'm flattered that you tried my idea. Now tell me, how did you do such a good job of selecting the background for manipulation? Is that a matter of pixel-by-pixel carefulness or is there some Photoshop magic that I haven't discovered yet?
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Sue O'S
{K:12878} 10/21/2002
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Wow! Bev, even with the grey background, this is a very impressive photo! So crisp! Was the light on his/her/its face only reflected light from above onto the leaf? Amazing! Really nice details.
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Beverly Gustafson
{K:1572} 10/21/2002
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Russ, I took your suggestion and this is the result...better I think. Thanks! :-)
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Beverly Gustafson
{K:1572} 10/21/2002
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Thanks ya'll. Russ, thats a good idea, I've never been very fond of the background on this, I feel it almost kills the butterfly. I didn't do anything to this except crop, and resize.
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Russ Cooper
{K:759} 10/21/2002
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A backlit butterfly. You don't see that every day, and it's beautiful! I'd like to see the top cropped off just a little bit (seems like there's a little too much grey area).
It would be pain to do, but I also wonder what it would look like to give the gray area a bluish cast. That would put the background right across the color wheel from the butterfly, and also get a maybe-interesting red-green-blue thing going.
Did you manipulate the background already?
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Jeff Cable
{K:3599} 10/21/2002
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Excellent capture Beverly. I really like the translucency and the rim lit effect. You have a good eye. Nice work!
Cheers!
Jeff
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