Graphics Editor, Before and After?

[alexander]

So today i'd like to open up another post, this one will contain things that you do, in you spare time, in your graphics editor. Now, i have worked with a few, Photoshop, Gimp, Pixel, Corel, etc, so i have an idea of what i like to do in it, but what do you do with it?

 

If you do photo manipulation, post some before and afters. If you generate stuff, I'd like to see that. If you have questions on how something was done, or would like to challenge someone by changing it in ways you see are best, please, ask, post, post, and ask :)

 

here's a start

 

Took a picture with my phone, and here's what i had before:

 

http://hypography.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2304&stc=1&d=1211568630

 

Some Gimp work later

 

After:

http://hypography.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2306&stc=1&d=1211568772

 

needs to be cropped, but i don't really care for the point is made anyways :)

[Monomer]

Here's one I did a while ago. I think I used picasa and I didn't really know what I was doing, but at least you can see the ducks better.

 

So, here's the original:

 

 

Here's what happened when I fiddled around with it:

 

[snoopy]

I use GIMP 2 to generate graphics

 

 

 

I use a button editor to generate buttons

 

 

 

retouched photo in GIMP

 

 

 

 

Peace

:shade:

[alexander]

retouched photo in gimp, sounds like a challenge, lets see what else we can make of it :shade:

[snoopy]

Its my daughter

 

isnt she a wee angel ??

 

altogether now awww...

 

Peace

:shade:

[alexander]

so um, here is before and after (though you will probably hate it)

 

couple of hours in gimp, nothing too extraordinary, but i dont have any more time, i wish it was a better picture (photography-wise), too :)

 

P.S. I don't know what color eyes she has, so i made my best guess

[snoopy]

ok alexander that is just creepy looking

 

and she has blue eyes

 

she is a wee blonde haired blue eyed baby

 

just dont dont give up your day job....

 

jeez louise....

 

what next ?

 

Peace out

[alexander]

It needs more work, as i said, i only had a little time, and there is lots of work that needs doing, i'll post progress as i go along btw.

 

Major step was to get as much noise out of the image, and soften the shadows, which, you'd have to admit, came out rather interestingly, next step is skin tones... And also, this is gimp, it's no photoshop, for image editing....

 

Ooops, i did the blending wrong on exporting that image, this is the after i wanted to post, here:

[alexander]

what i posted by accident is my correction layer, and yeah, you'd expect that to be rather creepy :phones:

[alexander]

Just so you don't think that i didnt spend my day doing nothing, i have done some more work on this, let's see what you have to say about this version:

 

worked on brightning up the dress, and the surrounding, also further working on getting a soft shadow and some work on hair :phones:

[modest]

Good thread idea Alexander,

 

I actually put myself through college doing logo creation, desktop publishing, and designing for a screen printing company.

 

It was all using on a PC - Corel mostly. I used Illustrator when a customer's file was so formatted. Of course, Photoshop was a must.

 

I'll try and find some better examples - something with more photo manipulation and before / after shown.

 

 

-modest