The next photoshop challenge - icon negatives

shylock

You guys have icons down to a science -- I get the feeling many of you are bored with them. So let's approach them from
a new perspective and see if you're up to the challenge.

ellewood

Now that my friend is awesome. Quick job cause Sopranos are on in 5 mins!!!!! If I had time, I'd take out the date, words, etc.

MrSpud

MrSpud

I'm trying to find a way to mimic your shadowing effect in the cutout. I'm getting closer, not quite there though. Of course, I'm still cheating too.

MrSpud

michael

sweet

tedssupply

Not a cut out but I thought this was neat.

MrSpud

I don't know where I'm going with this . Just seeing what Picture-It 99 can do.

MrSpud

I think I'll stop now...

solid

Ok, I'll play!



Ken

MrSpud

Very cool!

relayer

<< <i>Ok, I'll play!



Ken >>

66RB

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Ken >>



That's really cool!


I wish I had Photoshop

shylock

Solid - awesome gif! Now that would make a great forum icon or sig line. Excellent work.

I'm trying to find a way to mimic your shadowing effect in the cutout. I'm getting closer, not quite there though.
Of course, I'm still cheating too.

MrSpud - one of the advantages of Photoshop is the Drop Shadow option, from any angle. Poorguy used it on all his Liberty
profiles in the first challenge post, as does Heritage in their Virtual Gallery. It creates the illusion of depth in the image.

It's one of the very few advantages us PS users have over you

shylock

PS: one of the cool things about a negative icon (PhotoShop "scrap metal") is what you can add to it.

BigTom

Some of those pics gave me flashbacks. THANKS!

MrSpud

<< <i>MrSpud - one of the advantages of Photoshop is the Drop Shadow option, from any angle. >>



I just looked in MrsSpud's Paintshop Pro and found the drop shadow button. I tried to make it work on an image and it made me try and convert it to a layer. It got really scary, something about 24 bit color and checkered screens, so I closed it real quickly and opened up Picture-It 99 again. After the panic subsided, I poked around a bit and then noticed that there is a shadow icon under the effects menu. I clicked on it and multiple pictures of a friendly rubber ducky with shadows of various lengths and angles appeared. I clicked on one and magicly the image I had opened of the Barber dime took on a reasonable facsimilie of the Photoshop Drop Shadow Effect. I figure if I play around a bit I can get it to look even more like yours (I already had a crude angled outline effect inside trying in vain to get the shadowing effect). I feel much better now

solid

Thanks, shylock - your photoshop work is outstanding (as are some of the other images
here), so I'll take that as quite a compliment!

After it was done I noticed a little jumpiness in the falling star, attributable to my trying
to center the star by eye. Just FYI, there are 29 separate images in the sequence.

Ken

MrSpud

Solid, I really like your animated image. I was trying to "suggest" just such an effect of a shrinking device with my ones where I tried to incorporate optical illusions that suggest movement. What kind of program do you use to create animations?

Smitty79

<< <i>PS: one of the cool things about a negative icon (PhotoShop "scrap metal") is what you can add to it.

>>



Now that is cool.

tmot99

I have this:



from this:



My cropping isn't that great as I don't have as much control on a touch pad rather than an actual mouse.

solid

Thanks, MrSpud - it probably won't be much help to you but I used Microsoft GIF Animator, which
was a tool included in Microsoft Image Composer, which was included with some older versions
of Frontpage.

I would imagine there are many free or cheap GIF Animator programs out there, but I haven't
looked for them.

Ken

KoinDawg

shylock

After it was done I noticed a little jumpiness in the falling star, attributable to my trying
to center the star by eye. Just FYI, there are 29 separate images in the sequence.

Solid - you're a bit too tough on yourself. I've never clicked on a "manipulated" coin image as
much as I have yours. Your fading star is a classic.

Gifs, or some more advanced format along the same line, are the next step in creative coin
photography and I'm fascinated with them. Someday auction coins will rotate at different
angles on our moniter, like we held and tilted them in our own hands.




MrSpud - I get the feeling Picture-It 99's drop shadow just doesn't work as well as Photoshop's.
I also get the feeling your "cheater" methods are making you lazy! You are too talented for work
like this.



Cleaned up a bit at the edges, and Drop Shadowed with PhotoShop.

MrSpud

<< <i>You are too talented for work >>



Thanks for the compliment . In all fairness though, that was my first attempt. By the time I got to the Barber dime I was a bit more satisfied, even though I couldn't get the shadow. I settled at first with a black outline on the inside giving a slight hint of an illusion of depth. Then I overcompensated for the lack of depth with the illusion pictures . It was after that that I found that Picture-It had a shadow feature, only I already had the black outline in it so I don't know how good or bad it really is until I get a chance to experiment more. Probably it won't work as well as the Photoshop one because the Photoshop has that layering thing that actually makes the images look like they were cut out by a coin jeweler! It is almost enough to make me want to figure out the whole layering thing in MrsSpud's Paintshop Pro. But even more, I'd love to figure out how to do one of those animated ones like Solid did, only using my image of the Barber Dime with the optical illusion background. It would look awesome to have the Head shrinking down the optical illusion tunnel.

Thanks for posting the challenges. They make me learn how to do new things. And yes, I am lazy, but stubborn too. For example, I started out just being able to make cheater cutouts of black and white Cameo proof pictures and then kept experimenting until I figured out how to make it work on business strikes with both cutouts and negative cutouts with fairly clean smooth edges on the cutouts. This Barber dime picture, to me at least, shows how "clean" of a cutout effect can be achieved using Picture-It 99's cutout by color feature. The middle outline silouette should give you enough information to figure out how I did it using a business strike, especially If I tell you that the technique will only work for business strikes that also have cameo proof examples with the same devices

rcjes

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