Gerryatrics
03-18-2007, 11:02 AM
I picked up a copy of Photoshop CS2 a while back, mostly as a way to crop and touch up photos without too much hassle. I've messed around with some of the more advance features before, but never figured out... well anything, so I gave up. A couple of days ago I decided to give it another try, I needed to make an image for a contest, and I can't sketch or anything like that, so I decided to edit it together with Photoshop. I actually did better than I thought I would, the end result was more or less what I was going for, though pretty sloppy as far as photoshops go. I think I used the clone tool more than anything else, both to color certain areas that I couldn't figure out how to color otherwise and to blend stuff together that didn't blend too well on their own.
Here's what I started with:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b84/DCTORN/SpidermanOnSet.jpg
And here's what I ended up with:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b84/DCTORN/CaptainSpider-Man.jpg
No matter how hard I tried I couldn't get the pants the same color as the upper part of the shirt, same with the sides of the shirt. All the white stuff looks really bad and I smudged a couple of areas trying to get everything to match up correctly. Trying to change one color to another was by far the hardest part.
So, any tips on how to improve my photoshopping? Feel free to be brutally honest. Any tweaks that can be made to the final product? Now that I'm starting to get comfortable with using Photoshop I want expand my skills as much as possible.
Here's what I started with:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b84/DCTORN/SpidermanOnSet.jpg
And here's what I ended up with:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b84/DCTORN/CaptainSpider-Man.jpg
No matter how hard I tried I couldn't get the pants the same color as the upper part of the shirt, same with the sides of the shirt. All the white stuff looks really bad and I smudged a couple of areas trying to get everything to match up correctly. Trying to change one color to another was by far the hardest part.
So, any tips on how to improve my photoshopping? Feel free to be brutally honest. Any tweaks that can be made to the final product? Now that I'm starting to get comfortable with using Photoshop I want expand my skills as much as possible.