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| Andy Forrester 2006-06-27, 9:05 pm |
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Hey Pop!
Welcome....put your feet up, have a beer and make yorself at home!
Great image ......but in my day all mustangs were red.....couldn't you have
'thieved' a red one <G>
Regards Andy
"POP" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message news:44906eb2_3@cnews...
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've gotten a tremendous amount of help from thjis group, so I figured I'd
> show off (or not) one of what I consider my first successes. Our first
> brand new car was a 68 Mustang GTCS with Shelby influences and one of the
> things we didn't get was photographs of it. Since I was unable to find
> any photographs on the web the right color, I took creating that photo as
> my first task.
>
> The first attachment is my first try; not very good but I loved the color
> so much I thought I'd paste it here. It was shortly after that I
> discovered this newsgroup. About all I did for this one was remove
> anything non-metallic and play with hue & saturation.
>
> The second attachment is my "final product" but is an optimized JPG. I
> think you'll get an idea anyway of how it came out. I started out to
> remove the background completely since it's a "thieved" pic, but then
> liked this effect so much I stuck with it.
> I've done so much to this one I couldn't even begin to describe how I
> did it! And redid it. And redid the redid, then redid it again<g>
> et-cet-e-ra.
>
> I know most people are into flowers at the moment, but ... when I was
> young, MY fancies turned to gals & cars in the spring, so ... <G>.
> Besides, all those wild roses outside my bedroom window are too picky!!
>
> Next: My 55 ford Fairlane. Then I hope to have received the rest of the
> pics for the collage I said I was working on.
>
> Be kind please, I'm a complete newbie here & at this stuff.
>
> Pop
>
>
> --
> I'm broke: Don't even ask!
>
>
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| Adriaan Barel 2006-06-27, 9:05 pm |
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"POP" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:44906eb2_3@cnews
> Hi All,
>
> I've gotten a tremendous amount of help from thjis group, so I
> figured I'd show off (or not) one of what I consider my first
> successes. Our first brand new car was a 68 Mustang GTCS with
> Shelby influences and one of the things we didn't get was
> photographs of it. Since I was unable to find any photographs on
> the web the right color, I took creating that photo as my first
> task.
>
> The first attachment is my first try; not very good but I loved
> the color so much I thought I'd paste it here. It was shortly
> after that I discovered this newsgroup. About all I did for this
> one was remove anything non-metallic and play with hue &
> saturation.
>
> The second attachment is my "final product" but is an optimized
> JPG. I think you'll get an idea anyway of how it came out. I
> started out to remove the background completely since it's a
> "thieved" pic, but then liked this effect so much I stuck with
> it.
> I've done so much to this one I couldn't even begin to
> describe how I did it! And redid it. And redid the redid, then
> redid it again<g> et-cet-e-ra.
>
> I know most people are into flowers at the moment, but ... when I
> was young, MY fancies turned to gals & cars in the spring, so ...
> <G>. Besides, all those wild roses outside my bedroom window are
> too picky!!
>
> Next: My 55 ford Fairlane. Then I hope to have received the
> rest of the pics for the collage I said I was working on.
>
> Be kind please, I'm a complete newbie here & at this stuff.
>
> Pop
Nice work Pop. :-)
--
----oooOOOooo----
Adriaan Barel
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| Michelle 2006-06-27, 9:05 pm |
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"POP" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:44906eb2_3@cnews...
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've gotten a tremendous amount of help from thjis group, so I
> figured I'd show off (or not) one of what I consider my first
> successes. Our first brand new car was a 68 Mustang GTCS with
> Shelby influences and one of the things we didn't get was
> photographs of it. Since I was unable to find any photographs
on
> the web the right color, I took creating that photo as my first
> task.
>
> The first attachment is my first try; not very good but I loved
> the color so much I thought I'd paste it here. It was shortly
> after that I discovered this newsgroup. About all I did for
this
> one was remove anything non-metallic and play with hue &
> saturation.
>
> The second attachment is my "final product" but is an optimized
> JPG. I think you'll get an idea anyway of how it came out. I
> started out to remove the background completely since it's a
> "thieved" pic, but then liked this effect so much I stuck with
> it.
> I've done so much to this one I couldn't even begin to
> describe how I did it! And redid it. And redid the redid,
then
> redid it again<g> et-cet-e-ra.
>
> I know most people are into flowers at the moment, but ... when
I
> was young, MY fancies turned to gals & cars in the spring, so
.....
> <G>. Besides, all those wild roses outside my bedroom window
are
> too picky!!
>
> Next: My 55 ford Fairlane. Then I hope to have received the
> rest of the pics for the collage I said I was working on.
>
> Be kind please, I'm a complete newbie here & at this stuff.
>
> Pop
>
>
> --
> I'm broke: Don't even ask!
>
Nice job, Pop. My first efforts at anything in PSP were very
hard on my eyes, you did well :-)
--
Michelle ;-)
Michelle's Paint Shop Pro & More!
http://hometown.aol.com/Mish234/index.html
Original tubes, links to plugins, tutorials, fonts & more.
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| Andy Forrester wrote:
> Hey Pop!
>
> Welcome....put your feet up, have a beer and make yorself
> at home!
Thanks; even though I put this in the wrong group? I could NOT
figure out where my post was, then came here, and bingo! There
it was. Hope that wasn't too big a faux pas.
>
> Great image ......but in my day all mustangs were
> red.....couldn't you have 'thieved' a red one <G>
OUCH! The original was red! A lousy color, for me at least, to
"engolden", at that!
If you're looking for cars, I found my pics over in
alt.binaries.pictures.autos. Those nuts over there flood with
about anything ever created; a real stash of photos. Usually, if
you can't find what you want, ask and within a day or so there
will be an actual flood of that model/year<g>. So I mean it when
I say they're "dedicated". There's about a 99% chance what you
want is already there though. How about a wooden motorcycle?
Harley, I think it was. There's one of those there, too<g>.
If there's any flyboys here, alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
has a lot, too; commercial and military. Being ex Naval Air
Force I've even contributed a bunch myself. Differnt nick
though; forget which one I used; it was a long time ago.
Caution: Limit the quantities on your downloads or you'll be
there a long time waiting for it to finish! Much better to
Search than peruse though.
Cheers,
Pop
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POP wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've gotten a tremendous amount of help from thjis group, so I
> figured I'd show off (or not) one of what I consider my first
> successes. Our first brand new car was a 68 Mustang GTCS with
> Shelby influences and one of the things we didn't get was
> photographs of it. Since I was unable to find any photographs on
> the web the right color, I took creating that photo as my first
> task.
> The first attachment is my first try; not very good but I loved
> the color so much I thought I'd paste it here. It was shortly
> after that I discovered this newsgroup. About all I did for this
> one was remove anything non-metallic and play with hue &
> saturation.
> The second attachment is my "final product" but is an optimized
> JPG. I think you'll get an idea anyway of how it came out. I
> started out to remove the background completely since it's a
> "thieved" pic, but then liked this effect so much I stuck with
> it.
> I know most people are into flowers at the moment, but ... when I
> was young, MY fancies turned to gals & cars in the spring, so ...
> <G>. Besides, all those wild roses outside my bedroom window are
> too picky!!
> Next: My 55 ford Fairlane. Then I hope to have received the
> rest of the pics for the collage I said I was working on.
> Be kind please, I'm a complete newbie here & at this stuff.
Then hopefully you will not perceive as unkind when I say that as an
image, I like your first try better than the final? :-)
The color of the first car is probably not bright enough for you,
but I like it. To me, the color of the second is too harsh. This is
mainly because it is everywhere, on the black stripe on the side, on
the headlights, the windows, the grille... (forgive me if I use the
wrong technical terms, not meaning to offend car lovers but am not a
native writer). I think that it was just on the body, the part that
would be painted, it would blend in better. That is what I like
better about your first image, the details of the car are not
colored and distinctive - it makes the yellow (ochre?) stand out
better. Another thing about the second car is that, understandably,
the tires have become a little 'blocky' by erasing around the car.
Was this bad? :-) I usually prefer to be straightforward if I see
something that might be different or better - though I'll equally
say it if I think something is good. It doesn't necessarily stop me
whether posters ask for comments or not :-) My take is, there are
dozens of graphics groups where people are just nice about anything
posted, but this is the only one by Corel for our learning, and
sharing knowledge, experience.
Joske
--
http://members.home.nl/j.a.c.backer/
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Joske wrote:
> I think that it was just on the body, the part that would be
> painted, it would blend in better.
Shoud be:
I think that if it was just on the body etc
Joske :-)
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Joske wrote:
> Joske wrote:
[color=darkred]
> Shoud be:
Grrr.
Joske :-)
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Joske wrote:
> Then hopefully you will not perceive as unkind when I say that as an
> image, I like your first try better than the final? :-)
If you look at the filenames, the one that shows up first in his message=20
seems to in fact be his final. :-) I like that one better, too.
--=20
Tanja S=E4ily, http://www.iki.fi/tape/
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tape wrote:
> Joske wrote:
[color=darkred]
> If you look at the filenames, the one that shows up first in his
> message seems to in fact be his final. :-) I like that one
> better, too.
Oh dear, you're right :-) Sorry Pop.
Joske
--
http://members.home.nl/j.a.c.backer/
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| Michelle wrote:
......
>
> Nice job, Pop. My first efforts at anything in PSP were
> very hard on my eyes, you did well :-)
Hard on the eyes? HARD on the EYES? Boy, you can say that
again? There's a lot of edumication in those here pics; lots of
hours of it in fact.
NOW I have to learn to remember to save presets! I'm having a
devil of a time recreating that color again. Guess I'll have to
just copy it; oh well. I'm not quite done anyway because the
actual paint job had a silvery "fleck" appearance that was very
pronounced in the sunlight. I -think- from what I've read that
'noise' is the way to do that, but I can't get the effect quite
right. Yet.
We put 2,200 miles/month on that poor car, give or take, for
one and a half years and then spent three weeks driving from San
Diego to New York! Bad weather's over; guess my playtime is too,
for awhile<g>.
Thanks,
Pop
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"Joske" <j.backer@home.nl> wrote in message
news:4492ced9$1_1@cnews...
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> tape wrote:
>
>
>
> Oh dear, you're right :-) Sorry Pop.
>
> Joske
> --
> http://members.home.nl/j.a.c.backer/
>
>
>
>
>
Yup; didn't bother to look at the attached sequence; that'll
teach me not to use titles! Vaguery, the tool of the ego<g>.
Pop
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