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  1. Hello Clicker, I must admit that I was a bit daunted when I first saw that desktop. I looked on YT and found a simple 'how to' followed it using two windows and the next day did this. I only ever use about 5% of the program, just one small figure at a time. The 'downside' of the program is the time it takes to render an image. An ordinary graphic card like those built into GPU will take ages I bought a used Nvidia one, with 4000px high figure even that takes about an hour, at 1080px to fit in a video frame is faster at about 10 to fifteen minuties. I did go to the Brum Royal Ballet and ask if I could take some pics to montage into others. The answer handed down from 'Madame' was emphatic NO! I got the feeling that ballet to the standard of the BRB and others like it exist only in a parallel universe. How the sculptor managed to get this amazes me every time I look at it. Margot Fonteyn's statue in her home town Reigate She flows into that pose and floats. And not even one finger position is unplanned the whole thing is her construct learned after many years of practice and being able to do this from one movement to another time after time and make it look just SO easy. Cheers - J
  2. Hello Cheryl, https://www.daz3d.com/ is some free software that includes some basic stuff, including a few figures that can be posed down to individual finger joints This is not the default pose one gets this one has had quite a lot done to it, but is not finished, it needs to be spun round and the fingers and toes need to be attended to. The figures can then be lit using the lighting function and then rendered as a PNG and pasted into an image. Doing this is quite difficult as well otherwise they will look as thought they are just floating. Does it make do for a proper ballet dancer, it doesn't but does go somewhere towards it. Cheers - J
  3. Hello there, Some years ago I downloaded the trial version of Poser it was rubbish. A few weeks ago I thought I would have a look again and found DAZ3D which is free (hooray) Things have improved and one can alter a figure down to finger joints. I've always thought that ballet dancers did the best poses making difficult stuff look so natural. Well try to engage one in a shoot one needs deep pockets not only to pay the dancer but also the studio to take the pics. And will the photographs be OK to montage into a particular scene, I doubt it. DAZ3D is free and they make money by selling clothes and stuff Ballet dancers don't wear very much so that doesn't cost very much. Google Images is a great place to find poses and to copy them, well try at least. My wife looked at the one above and said that's K.Thorn OK I said. Well she is only an enthusiastic amateur, but she always turns up, is never late and will always have a really good go at a pose. Might post another soon Cheers - J
  4. Hello all, Out of interest I loaded my copy of Ps7 from 2002 To see if it would work on Win10 and if it was as fast as CS6 And what would happen to a Save As with a JPEG It does work and works blazingly fast A Saved As JPEG shows no difference at all The save for web does a GIF so I didn't bother with that I did reduce it to 800 x 600 and that shows no difference This was all done with the 'out of box' program I do like CS6 but think I wasted my money, I bought into a group licence purchase. And I only paid £25 for a genuine Ps7, such is life Cheers
  5. Hello Fuji, The clone tool can be used to get this effect and lots of others too, use it upon itself and choose various modes. Cheers
  6. Thanks Clicker that works with a JPEG Cheers
  7. Hello Phil, Tried this myself in CS6; JPEG Save as - get both on screen at 100% the opposite of what you get, desaturation and blur TIFF Save as - get both on screen at 100% both exactly the same. I've noticed this before and always use Unsharp Mask and Hue/Saturation to get the same images, again at 100%. If that's one of the cloud versions your using looks as though they've over compensated. Or vice versa if you are using an older version. Cheers
  8. Hello Mary and Hello all, I did some street photography a few years I went to our local town and wandered around taking pics of whatever took my eye. After a few weeks I sat down to and looked through all my pics to find a theme, something that I could grab and use to go off in one direction. I also looked for what I was not doing and realised that I'd only got a few pics of old people and concentrated on that as well. It's quite easy to pursue say three projects I found that one just gets boring. The result of photographing the old I called The Unobserved, here's a pic below and the link leads to the 29 others I just put up a quick slide show: http://www.jemraid.co.uk/unobserved.html Cheers
  9. Hello all, I make my own using the Japanese Stab Binding method easy to do and surprisingly strong. Cheers
  10. Hello Stravinsky, This maybe of some help, I use XN View the free version, it works like a fast file manager, all I have to do open an image in Ps is to press ALT+1, easy to set that up and will open multiple images by using CTRL. https://www.xnview.com/en/ Cheers
  11. Hello KC, I walk the same paths for years and never get tired of it, the light, the time of year, the time of day all change. My ideas of what I want change as well and when they do I know exactly where to go. I will say a bit more going to an area for the first time this results in skimming the surface, taking the 'nice' images in the manner of Francis Frith, go again, you can't take those, so you look for something else, eventually you get to taking really thoughtful and personal images that are far more satisfying than the 'postcard' pics. A rather extreme example of this is Thomas Joshua Cooper, Prof of photography at Glasgow School of Art. He takes his 1898 field camera and one sheet of film to a pre-planned spot and sits and waits for the photograph to come to him. Sounds a bit daft but when I first tried it feeling like a complete fool I looked behind the tree I was sitting against and there it was :-) Cheers
  12. Thanks for the interest all, Thanks Fuji, Nice of you to say that, like you I love experimenting. Hello Kev, The wood was at one time filled with 4WD idiots until the farmer fenced it. Those lines coincided with the sun and made it just right for what I wanted. Hello Korky, There is a (hidden?) history of the figure in the landscape, where the figure is part of the image and not just its subject, I pose as my characters Everyman and Everywoman, I've been doing it now for 6 years and got used to the idea although it's 500 years old. I use Ps CS6 it's the fastest one I've come across I used Ps7 2002 and Ps4 1994 prior to that. Hello Ryewolf, I think Anne has had an enormous influence on photographers perhaps as much as JMC, photographers today have no idea whose images they are emulating there seems to be dreadful lack of historical photographic knowledge. The worst thing about it is that it's much easier to find now that it ever was, the photographers of the pivotal photo secession are well documented all over the web. In this image I was not trying to make anything like Claude, Bill and Anne but trying to find out if I could get someway into creating the light and how to do it, the brown paper worked quite well. I can only use my own source materials and what's between my ears, the problem I faced was using light pouring into the image which would render a figure almost as a silhouette and I wanted both lit so I had to 'cheat' in the same way Claude and Bill did. That is the beauty in stepping away from the single image and into a creation of my own making I begin to understand what they did and how difficult it was. Cheers
  13. Hello all, Pydale wood in November, I took the pic with the space for a figure on the right. This is my first attempt at a legacy image. I see in my mind Claude Lorrain's images and Turner's early one's, in his will Turner asked that two of his paintings should be shown next to two of Claude's so that people could see where Turner came from, they are still there in the National Gallery. The other part of the legacy is the work of Anne W Brigman who posed nude in the landscape for a self portrait called 'The Soul of the Blasted Pine' in 1908. A wonderfully evocative image of her stretching to the sky with all the tautness she could muster. Everyone has to start somewhere and I'm no exception, I began this with the light which I brightened even to drawing a yellow circle, yellow looking brighter than white. I wasn't happy with just that so added some stained brown paper under the sky and trees bit, tried a few blend modes 'Color' worked and I used a Reveal All mask to improve the sunlight. I used a partial Paint filtration to give the trees on the right that feathery look and brightened the foreground with the Clonne tool. The lighting on the figure was the wrong way round I have to pose in a one position in a room and use a couple of speedlights so I had to darken the right and do the rim lighting on the left. Every time though I learn a little bit more and now have a better idea of what to do. Cheers
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