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From: "Brian Wallace Starg82343(-at-)hotmail.com [anaglyphs]" <anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com>
To: anaglyphs <anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 5:58 PM
Subject: [Anaglyphs] Shoreline [1 Attachment]

 

Downs Park Shoreline (rip rap) with fishing pier in the distance.

I felt the composition needed more balance as well as interest, so I added a gradient blue to the blank horizon sky, as well as the three flying gulls.  The details of the W1 were pretty weak, so I tried the HDR toning feature to bring out more details in the rocks.  This helped quite a bit to bring more life into the image.

Tip:  (Working with an alilgned side-by-side crossview of the image)... To add objects In Photoshop to a 3D X-View stereo such as the birds in this image, I first added a layer (per bird) in Photoshop (working with a lossless copy of the image such as BMP format),  then added the Photoshop bird "paintbrush" (free download from the internet).  Before adding each bird however, I used the tools in PS to orientate the bird in the direction I wanted as well as the size and shade.  Keeping the size of the birds small in this composition allows less concern for depth and details of the individual object.  Because the objects are back-lit, that is also less concern for individual details of the objects. 

Once I have the bird object in the layer, I duplicated the layer so that I could hold the shift key down and drag the object horizontally from the left to the right image.  Holding the Shift Key down while dragging prevents the object position from moving vertically resulting in a vertical misalignment.  While dragging the bird on the right image I cross my eyes so that I can sense the depth of the bird in the scene.  If I add a bird which I want to be further away, I make the size of the object smaller and drag it until the depth is a bit further away than the larger/nearer bird added before.

If the birds were large, resulting in close proximity of the virtual foreground, I would have to do much more tricky artwork to create a more detailed version of the object for realism.  Much of that may depend on your skill with digitally painting, etc.  It's more rare to find a Photoshop Paintbrush download of an object (such as the bird) that has nice details (especially a free download).  You could however use a bird that you photographed then cut and paste.  You would need to be concerned with how the object was lit, edges, etc. to provide a realistic view, otherwise the scene will look fake.


W1, SPM, PS-CS6, IrfanView, Noisefilter, HDR toning, Photoshop bird paintbrushes.

Cheers,

Brian

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