Topic: How was this done? / changing multiple images from colour to black / white

This worked perfectly for me, and refreshed my mind on automating processes. Many thanks Craig, and well done for writing it out so clearly without access to the computer.

Topic: How was this done? / changing multiple images from colour to black / white

Firstly you need to set up an automated action.
Open any file:
Go to the action panel (the ‘play button’ near the history button) – and create a new action by clicking on the new page icon at the bottom of the box.
Name your new action ‘black and white’ (or whatever) and press ‘record’
Do your black and white conversion on the file you have opened – however you do it (desaturate, b/w filter, adjustments, etc)
Save your file then press ‘stop’ on the action panel.

You now have an automated action that will do all the steps you take to do a black and white conversion at the click of a button, all you need to do in the future is to go into the actions panel, select ‘black and white’ and press play.

To automate it for multiple files at a time:
File>Automate>Batch – this will bring up a box with a few different areas to fill out.
Top left corner is ‘actioin set’ or something similar (I don’t have PS in front of me at the moment) – select the action you want to use (in this case, the one you just created – black and white)
Source can either be opened files (if you have them all sitting in the window in PS already. Or can be folder (and select a whole folder at a time to convert)
Destination – obvious really. Where you want them to end up.
Then a bunch of drop down boxes to determine how you want them all named

Mate, I hope that all makes sense. I’m on the computer at work and don’t have PS handy to look at. If you have any troubles, let me know and I’ll try and explain better.

Topic: How was this done? / changing multiple images from colour to black / white

ok so no-one knows…….goody something i can challenge against myself !!

Topic: How was this done? / changing multiple images from colour to black / white

thanks Alison,
any chance of more detail !
is this done automatically

Topic: How was this done? / changing multiple images from colour to black / white

File>Automate>Batch ?

Topic: How was this done? / changing multiple images from colour to black / white

i’ve had a look around and fail to find a topic on the fact of changing multiple images from colour to black and white.
I’m sure there must be a batch editing way of doing this.
I shoot weddings and part of my package supplies the customer with all images taken on the day given in colour and black and white, i’m looking at converting 500 plus images !
i can convert a single image, but want to do a bulk load in the one hit
If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Topic: How was this done? / Dreamy Glow Look

I believe that is a combination of a very short depth of field (low f-stop) and some post processing blurring?
That would be my guess….
Try duplicating your photo layer, adding a decent blur and then making the new layer slightly transparent…. that will allow the original layer to show through so there’s still some clarity, but give it a softer feel. That’s what I do sometimes.

Topic: How was this done? / Dreamy Glow Look

I’ve been trying to achieve a dreamy glow in some of my photos without much luck. I even downloaded a freebie dream glow plugin for Photoshop Element, but I didn’t like the result. Here is an example of what I am talking about:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/jackyp
Was this achieved using software, camera settings or equiptment.

Any help you can provide would be helpful.

Thanks in advance!

Topic: How was this done? / Multiple shot merge with Photoshop CS3 extended.

Thanks deisel, I read somewhere else a very similar technique.
I was just hoping there was an easy way around it for someone like myself who doesnt know all the tricky stuff on photoshop yet.
I tried it in “Image stack” but it didnt quite work out, it came close but no cigar, 6 images with only the 1st and 6th image containing my friend jumping off the cliff.
Thank you for your reply.

Topic: How was this done? / Multiple shot merge with Photoshop CS3 extended.

I would do this by using the tripod and fast shutter speed as you mentioned, and then grabbing the multiple images you want to use – in the above case 6 photos should have been used.

Once you have each photo aligned perfectly on 6 different layers (using the background as a line up tool) the next step is to mask or cut away the background from each shot, so each layer has ONLY the skateboarder and his shadow (and maybe a little bit of background that doesnt overlay the next skateboarder image).

If any skaters overlap (as this does before he ollies) you will need to cut closely around the ABOVE skater to allow the skater behind him to ‘hide behind’ – as you can see with his arm being hidden behind the other skater before the ollie)

It may take a bit of time to do, but the main thing that may take up your time will be aligning the images perfectly, let’s just hope your tripod holds perfectly still :)

Hope that helps.

D

Topic: How was this done? / Multiple shot merge with Photoshop CS3 extended.

Just wondering if anyone out there knows how to stitch these kind of photos together easily?

I have a Nikon D300, tripod and Photoshop CS3 extended and cannot for the life of me figure out how its done. All I know is that a tripod is needed and a fast frame rate. I have a sequence of shots of a friend jumping off a gorge into water that I would like to merge into 1 photo.

I am not very technically minded with the program yet, but any help (in lay terms) would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

(a) Yes blending 2 images is possible in Elements – I have helped people to do it …

(b) Don’t forget in Photoshop that the opacity slider is not the only way to blend images . . . if you right click on the layer you wish to blend, up comes a box which has MANY optiions, the most unused of which is the ‘blend if’ option down the bottom. Hold the ‘alt’ key down while you click on any of the sliders and it will SPLIT them so you can now slide and make very tiny changes to the blended image. This is an amazing tool but it takes a lot of practise to get a handle on how it really works. It is worth the effort!!!

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

Great instructions Jon!

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

This might be something like what you mean.

Original girl shot.

Original TV shot.

Final composition, blending the two.

Here are the basic steps I took:

1) I opened this photo of the girl, and this photo of the TV screen.

2) Background layer (TV photo): Using the ‘clone’ and ‘healing’ brushes on the TV photo, I removed the white text across the screen.

3) Layer 1 (girl photo): Using the ‘move’ tool, I moved the photo of the girl onto the photo of the TV. The photo of the girl was now ‘Layer 1’ on top of the original ‘Background’ layer of the TV photo. I resized the photo of the girl using the ‘transform’ controls (including the very useful ‘distort’ control), until it fitted in the TV screen.

3) Background layer (TV photo): Using the ‘pen’ tool, I drew a path around the section of the TV into which I wanted to place the photo of the girl. I turned this into a selection using the ‘path’ tools. Using ‘select inverse’, I deleted the pixels outside the selection area.

4) Layer 1 (girl photo): I changed the blending option of this layer to ‘Overlay’ using the blending options menu.

The original tutorial I followed is here. I used this same technique to compose the following two shots (click for originals).

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

HELLO
Now in Adobe Elements and Photoshop CS3 ,you have what is called : layers and calques! They are very great tools and are used to create what used to be called : "sandwich images ".Those were achieved in the argentic period ,by putting 2 negatives together or more! 1 would be a bit over exposed and the other one under exposed .They were inserted in the enlarger and worked from there.
Today, we can with, these softwares and using layers and calques , make "composite"photographs and photomontages.

There are basically 3 differant types of layers.
-the chromatic ones
- the direct tone ones and
the alpha layer

They have commons points but their work is very differant.

-The chromatic layer keep all the informations which are of colorimetric value ( of all the printed colours)
which are the red , green and blue! for a photograph ;

When you paint ,or edit or or put a filter; you change the information of that colour in each one of the chromatic layer.

- The direct layer is seen on the documents that will be printed with other colours or adding colours to the existing ones.
In the printing process , they will use the brand name of the ink which will be used .(pantone for exemple)

Only special documents will show this

-The alpha layer is a registered selection.

You will find the layers and calques appear on the top right corner of the menu bar in adobe elements
-———- for composites :
-photo elements…
-photoshop

When you import a photo, and then an other one,if you look at your calque palette you will see the last one appear as a small vignette.

You can clic, and take it with you onto the other photograph!
Now you have 2, on top of each other.

They are called “calques”; You must make a copy of the 1st one you put on your working space, so as to keep the original safe and untouched.
Then you can workon the 2nd one which is a calque now , by going to the edition on top of your Task bar and select,transormation by hand! you can resize, ect

If you have photoshop, you clic on the top menu for calques and go to styles of calques;

You can superimpose or manipulate other wise, all the “menu” should
be played with ,so that, you get familiar with the diverse possibilities!
When you have selected the effect you want , you can play with differant options: like the density and so on…
.
The purpose of all those calques and layers as I said is too be able to keep the original work untouched , while adding or correcting the photo and using it that way for publication or not.

MORE LATER.

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Topic: How was this done? / Experts with time needed!!!

I believe they have selected the outlines of the image and put them on the top layer, put a STYLE layer over them (including bevels, shadow etc)
and then blurred the image on the layer underneath. What they have also done, is on the image underneath, is increase the contrast, increased the saturation (to get those colours) and then finally put on a diffuse glow effect all in photoshop.

Hope this helps.

Topic: How was this done? / Experts with time needed!!!

You know I’m going to try this out. I think I see what some of the effects are. I don’t want to say until I try this out thought. see ya

Is there a larger picture of this by any chance. Then I can see if things turn out the same.

Topic: How was this done? / Experts with time needed!!!

www.pencilpixels.com/fretri/sg1.jpg

I want to create this. You can buy the action for $95, but I ain’t gonna! I just need a step by step on how it was done. Anyone?

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

Hi actnatural,

It is certainly possible to do it with PS7, I don’t know much about Elements though but expect that if you knew your way around the programme that it could be done.

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

hi i have photoshop elements 5 and photoshop 7 is it possible to do the same with them?

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

Cheers for those Ideas, will fiddle & see what happens.

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

to get this effect I place one layer [a face] over the other [a sky] with opacity at about 75 – I then use the eraser on opacity 10 to erase the outline of the top layer [face] to blend it in. I then swithch to the bottom layer [sky] and again use the eraser to erase parts where I want face detail to take priority. then I merge and flatten.

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

Is it possible to have a low res version of the images to have a look at ?

The background of the second would need to be masked out using a gradient I would say. Mostly depends on the images.

The problem with PS is that there are so many ways to do things (which is good) that the images you have available will determine which is the best route to take.

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

Hi Paul

If you have two (or more) images opened in photoshop Use the move tool
and drag an image (keep curser down) over to the other one that is opened and drop
You now have got two layers Click on second layer and turn the opasity down.

Good luck

Liv

Topic: How was this done? / Need help - Two images into one

Hi,
I have seen here in RB group the use of say two images e.g. 1- Being a face with say black background , 2. then below that say a shot of flower.
The end result is the face being partly transparent but with detail still there but the 2. image showing through.

If someone could point me in the right direction for steps in CS2 I would be grateful.

I am self taught in CS2 so know a little bit.
Regards

Paul