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Title: New Mairead Banner Post by: BrianH_2009 on May 03, 2009, 08:02PM And here's one for the little firecracker. If you like it and want to use it, go ahead!
(http://i720.photobucket.com/albums/ww205/BrianH_2009/Banners/Mairead1.jpg) Title: Re: New Mairead Banner Post by: jillebeans on May 03, 2009, 08:04PM WOW! I like your banners. :)
Title: Re: New Mairead Banner Post by: Bluefire on May 03, 2009, 08:06PM Very nice.
Title: Re: New Mairead Banner Post by: BrianH_2009 on May 03, 2009, 08:13PM Wow that was a fast response :) Thank you!
Title: Re: New Mairead Banner Post by: Ggunsailor on May 03, 2009, 11:22PM Ooooooooooh! Nice!
Let's see; you've done David, Chloe, Mairead, and Lisa (I think). Who's next? Title: Re: New Mairead Banner Post by: MaryNorth93 on May 04, 2009, 02:32AM Awesome! ;D
Title: Re: New Mairead Banner Post by: jessicar on May 05, 2009, 09:26PM Those are so cool! :D How did you do them? ???
Title: Re: New Mairead Banner Post by: BrianH_2009 on May 06, 2009, 03:55AM Those are so cool! :D How did you do them? ??? Hello jessicar and thank you. I don't want to get too philosophical here but basically I start out with an idea of what I to convey then I search through the dvds to find the shots I want. I then take the screen captures from the dvds into Photoshop or the Gimp and I arrange them on a large Photoshop document until I arrive at a pleasing composition. At this point I pretty much know where I want the blending and fading to occur. I assign layer masks to all of the images and with a big soft brush I "paint out" all of the image borders so everything blends together seamlessly. At this point it's pretty much just tweaking. I'll burn the shadows and dodge the highlights to heighten the drama a bit. I'll "paint out" or blur elements that are too distracting. I'll hand paint elements that need fixing. I'll add text and assign effects to them. At this point i'll stand back about five feet or so and just stair at the image for a few minutes just the way I would if I was painting at the easel. If I think it looks good i'll scale the image down to about 600x200 upload it to photobucket then come to the forum and create a post in the appropriate thread and write a wonderfully pithy description ::) and paste the link and voila! And just hope people enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it :) Again I don't want to get too philosophical here, hehe. Perhaps i'll write a tutorial on the creation of one of these things, that might be helpful to some of you. Hope that answers your question. Ooooooooooh! Nice! Let's see; you've done David, Chloe, Mairead, and Lisa (I think). Who's next? Yep I did a Lisa and it is somewhat crude in comparison to my newer ones ;) So i'll have to do another Lisa perhaps some shots from "Caledonia" and or "The blessing." I just did one for Ray and Nicky and i've just started on one for Órlagh and if it turns out like i'm envisioning it should be pretty darn cool if I do say so myself :) |