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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