"Frog" figurine with digital manipulation.

 

Original frog figurine image taken in DJ Liquidators in Pasadena, Maryland.

 

This explanation of how I added additional elements via PS using paint brushes, is a duplicate of what I recently posted to Duke referring to the "Tinker Bell" post...

 

Since this is a first, I'm learning as I go. The reason that Tinker Bell became set back that far was because of the experimental paint brush technique of inserting other elements or objects. The more of these objects added in front of the main subject (Tinker Bell), the further away she becomes by the end result if you don't want WVs. With experience, this should become more controlled.

 

Some may not be aware (as I was not at first), that you can download paint brushes for PS (for free or buy them) that are of different subjects, shapes, etc. You can even make your own. We think of paint brushes as something to paint with, which you can, but if a paint brush is created as a shape or subject, you can also use it in place as a type of stamp. This is how I used it to create foliage, grass, etc.

 

This technique is straight forward for a 2D image but to create depth in a 3D image you of course must be able to insert the paint brush shape for each L & R side of the stereo pair. After placing the image on the left side, you can then insert it again on the right but moving it left or right at that point will determine the depth of the object being inserted. The main problem is keeping the object at the same vertical position on each L & R chip. The best solution I've found thus far is to use a grid in Photoshop.

 

Hopefully this short explanation should give you a better idea of what I've been doing recently. My first experiment with paintbrush was simply cloning to convert the object from 2D to 3D just to see how it would look. The Tinker Bell image is a full stereo without the conversion process. My next post will be of a frog figurine (like Tinker Bell) that I photographed in DJ Liquidators, extracted the background, added a gradient background and additional grass elements via the PS paint brush technique described above.

 

W1, SPM, PS, IrfanView.

Cheers,
Brian
 

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