| Not as easy as this looks, quite a few selected and blended layers, only external helicopter made of 2 sources & PS work. |
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digitalpharaoh
So, exactly WHAT kind of storms do you have across the pond?!?!?!?!
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blade_in_exile
i had same idea yours just looks better way to go tesch me how to make it snow please !!!!!!!!!!!!
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bigbuck
Cool Marco!
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mrchili
splendid
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Govan
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Patre
I like the way your theme matches the change of weather conditions in the image...I also believe that this was not nearly so easy as it might look...
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Will_E_Makit
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ece
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CarlC
santa's got a new ride
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dfwsusan
wow..really bad weather :D
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FootFungas
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Serps
Cool
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vokaris
I like it. Looks more like rain than snow. Maybe the sky needs to be a bit greyer, less contrast in the shadows, darker trees and less blur on the snow (or more blur on the chopper blades)
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point_n_click
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Scrumpy
Yeah, this does look quite easy, but what the hell, I'll give yer a vote ;)
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dumbat
excellent
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centurius
I Would like to see it in motion...
? Can U do IT?
That would fix all the problems...
Loving snow 100%
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Sulemi
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Relic Oboogie
Cool Marco.
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goofball84887
Ooooh a chance to give creative criticism to a chopper god! - If its coming down like this perhaps some seemingly more dense weather in the distance (as per perspective), obscuring the bridge, distant water, and far away mountains? Otherwise a great pic.
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Zorak
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Granulated
wtf ? just noticed I hadn't voted..which must have made you think my PM was a bit off. Great dynamics.
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Heinlein
Mice one Marco
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the burning couch
no, but good chopping weather, hahah..uhhh,.... ya I know ...that was dumb:p Nice chop, marco!...a bit o work there,eh?
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bsoholic
nice!
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Sassy
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Kansas
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marcoballistic
lol DP
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marcoballistic
thanks Blade, the actual effect that I went for of covering the hillside and all thats around it in light snowfall was a bit of a chore. I started by selecting areas of the image and using masking and layer styles to enhances the depth of the effect...
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marcoballistic
...then I set about using the healing brush to give the treelines more texture where they would have looked flat before. Next I set up several more layers and painted using normal brushes at varying opacities onto the tree, harbour, sky...
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marcoballistic
... viewing platform and hillside. Then I adjusted these layers' brightness, saturation and gamma levels to enhance the snow look. To add more depth I gave some distance to the far background, & added the chopper to give more depth & a bit more story...
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marcoballistic
...Finally I went about creating 4 layers of snow, this was always going to be a worry with my chosen theme, as the danger was the detail could be lost from the main image, for a similar method of what I did to make the snow effect see the...
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marcoballistic
...tutorials section Blade :o)
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marcoballistic
tried alot of that Voks before I posted, was constantly battling with this, but more grey equals nearly all the image being lost and just becoming a total and utter mess of grey :oD
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vokaris
grey all the way :) [img] ramblers.ab.ca...
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marcoballistic
hmmmm maybe, yet like I said, it is meant to be a burst blizzard, thats why the chopper is still flying anf banking hard to find land. And also why colours are still exposed... I don't know, maybe too much to get from a single still image
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Scrumpy
Marco, sir, you are outta control!!!
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marcoballistic
ha, dodn't think that at all Gran, no worries.... And good point goof, that would have been a good idea, cheers
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Not Flying Weather...
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by marcoballistic
Created September 28, 2006
27 votes
11 comments
880w x 960h (507KB)
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