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- versa
ok, maybe not so trick, as i think i know some ways to go about this, but can someone definitively tell me the proper technique to do what many magazines do, where the photo is doubled or part of it double layered so that the mag title is behind part of the pic...i mean many times it is SOOO cleanly done that it seems like there must be one, very methodical technique to this that i haven't thought of...
i am interested in employing the same technique in some drawings i want to do...where swirly ghost like shapes are moving around a person in a pict....
thanks !
- Mick0
Give us some smaples of what you mean? Scan in some of your mags you've seen it in.
usually if it looks perfect, it's lots of manual labor. If it's a front cover of a high profile mag, it's not unusual for a photoshop guru to spend 40 hours plus on the image.
- zeroblade0
you could do a bluescreen if you were the photographer. The source image basically dictates how much work you gotta put in.
- versa0
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- rasko40
most magazine shots where just the head goes infront of the title is a basic clipping path around the hair and then just position exactly over the top of the original image within Quark. I'm not exactly sure what you are after but perhaps it is layer masking you need to look into if it is more complex.
- GreedoLives0
you mean stuff like this?
- versa0
Greedo - yeah...
i have been assuming it is achieved by an "over" layer clipped very precisely, but after examing some mag covers very very closely, the amount of precision startled me....so then i though there is prolly a more specific method being used...
sorry if this sorta a n00b question, but i've never pulled this effect off before
- GreedoLives0
airbrush the edges after clipping them. spend countless hours on it. done.
- versa0
wyrd..thx
- rasko40
it depends on the image but oif its really fine masking then a clipping path wont do it. You need to look into using channels to create masks, you are basically wanting to duplicate a channel and then adjust its contrast and burn in the hair and remove the background so that you can then make duplicate layers and mask out what you dont want, so in effect if that pic was on a white background you would mask out just her and then create the pink background/type under the mask.. does thatmake sense?
- thosethat0
OR...
paint the title of the magazine large on a wall... ask the lady on the cover to stand in front of it... then take the picture...
robert's yer mothers brother...
as it were...
- versa0
well, i am just using that effect as a stepping stool to other effects i want to achieve, like i was saying earlier.......thought learning the process of this would help in the latter
thx