Comments on: My diffuse glow story, thoughts and confessions

By: Frans Charming

Frans Charming — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:03:00 +0000

Hey,
Thanks for the tutorial, I put it in practice here:
http://flickr.com/photos/mrfrans/2251830124/

By: Bella March

Bella March — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:04:35 +0000

I did know the RL trick with the nylon panty, but the inverse ?
What’s wrong with admitting I learned something new ? I wish people would do this more often …

Ehm Vint, I guess you scared me with your RL photoshoot proposal, lol. No serious, there was no hi-res version accessible on your Flickr account. Need the same material as you, in order to have a fair chance at beating you …

Looking back, I don’t think it’s a good idea, I would only make a fool of myself. I’ll let you and Wrath live happily until I have more skills.

/me goes back in protective mode

By: October Hush

October Hush — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:32:21 +0000

Hahahaha!

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:30:49 +0000

You printed from negatives in stead of converted raw? Ow my god! You didn’t look that old on the real life picture… ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

By: October Hush

October Hush — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:18:41 +0000

You’re right, Vint…this is something I learned when I was still a photographer in rl. You can use a diffusion filter on your lens when you take the photo and it’ll diffuse the highlights (or at least, it will diffuse the highlights more noticeably). If you use a diffusion filter when you go to print from the negative, it will diffuse the shadows. =)

By: Vint

Vint — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:39:17 +0000

Dedric, that’s where the text inbetween the picture-steps is for! ;)

And Bella, that early?! ;) The Reversed Diffuse Effect has an official name somewhere, it is actually one of the techniques to get a soft focus effect on B&W photographs. Should look up what it’s name is though. :d (And yes, maybe it is Invert Diffuse Glow, who knows… )

On Avarian Caves, I like it, not so sure on Pile-Up of Lex, but might also be that the Orton treatment is to blame. I don’t really ‘love’ the effect in the demo that your blog links to either. Might want to have a go on that portrait picture myself… *grins* (But the links end ‘dead’ because I’m nog logged in, here?)

Ow, and what happened with Wrath and I? :d

By: Dedric Mauriac

Dedric Mauriac — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:20:13 +0000

Love the diffuse glow story. My eyes are having a hard time telling the difference between some of the steps you took. Still, awesome.

By: Bella March

Bella March — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:15:29 +0000

Don’t know how to bring this ..

I baptised your technique the ‘Inverse Diffuse Glow’.
I was a bit sceptical at the start, then started to experiment with it.
And … it blew me from my chair.

Avarian Caves is a good example. It did miracles to this snapshot. Watch the zoomed part to look closer at the effect.

Or the Pile-Up of Lex where some blending of this technique on top of a Orton treatment, produced a watercolor effect and a nice healthy shadow.

That’s what I call ‘keeping me inspired’ !

By: kesseret

kesseret — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:50:43 +0000

Once again a photoshop tutorial that blows me away! Thank you for these! Not only do I learn how to clean up my SL photographs but it helps me learn something new in an application I need to learn so much about!

*mews*

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