-: zero :- ([info]zero_gravity) wrote,
@ 2007-11-19 11:43:00
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Contagion. Illness. Kentucky.
so in one of those: haha moments, I subbed the following photo over to:
[info]photocontest

this week's subject was CONTAGION.
and i've been sick ever since.

anyway, I'll cut it for the squeamish.. but I'll have you all know - no husbands were damaged in the making of this photo. It only took about an hour of photoshopping to tweak out the colours I wanted, and i'm pretty happy... but still sick. some kind of virus? I actually missed work ! stayed home. lay about. held down some soup. got The Bad to look after me. read. Spent the ENTIRE weekend at home - didn't eve step outside.

anyway, still staggering around now... and am very behind on correspondence, alas. I've seen the Doctor who has prescribed me a fistful of meds. lovely. Seems part of the problems with my throat have been due to the last set of steroids they prescribed. Great. Take drug #1 to fix problem A. Take drug #2 and #3 to fix problem B caused by drug #1. If there are any problems caused by drugs 2 and 3 I'll kill something.

but not right now though.... cause tomorrow we are heading down to Kentucky for the week! Yay! Vacation! I've not seen my inlaws for over a year. We'll probably eat too much turkey and have food like: cornbread and biscuits. Canada just doesn't do biscuits like they do in the US. I'll probably get the chance to do some target shooting in the back woods. Rumour has it too that it will be warmer there then here... which makes me happy. I'm not a great fan of the cold.

anyway my "zombie / contagion / eek! photo is behind the cut. The blood is all photoshop! really... i wouldn't hurt TheBad just for a photo... really!


Contagion



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[info]buymeaclue
2007-11-19 06:39 pm UTC (link)
...whoa. That's quite a pic.l

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[info]livia_llewellyn
2007-11-19 07:39 pm UTC (link)
Hope the trip to Kentucky goes smoothly - flying this time of the year is always such a bitch. Keep your meds close, and your temper closer. :P

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[info]mattshortforbob
2007-11-19 08:19 pm UTC (link)
How did you do all the photoshopping? The zombie-grey skin and the nice brown-red blood are very effective. Seems like it would take a lot of photoshop to create. Did you use dye for the blood as a marker (in the actual photo) to edit in photoshop, or what?

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[info]zero_gravity
2007-11-19 09:45 pm UTC (link)
actually I did a few photoshop tricks. the original is just soap!
first i ran a bunch of colour adjustments to get the blue tones - dropped it into LAB Colour and then tweaked the layers - gave the shadows more blues, the reds a bit more in the midtone range and more blue tones in the highlights.

lets see...
i saved a version then after converting it back to RBG mode. flattened everything and resaved it as a jpeg (cant do that with lab mode). Then I used the sponge tool....... sucked out all the colour of josh's skin... and any pink that showed through the bubbles. I wasn't sure what I was going to do then but had an idea...

I used the "history brush" on the red areas - and then used "fade history brush" BUT used Colour Burn. This gave the areas an intensely red colour... which i had to fade out.

There might be other ways of doing the Sponging. Since it was a small area basically I wanted to just leave a bit of pink (you can see some in the larger size).

all in all it didn't take long. mostly just twiddling around with some grain afterwards and some noise.

I just googled up the Blend Modes for you if you are interested:
http://www.arraich.com/ref/tool_blend_modes.htm



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[info]gi_jules
2007-11-19 10:49 pm UTC (link)
You are the goddess of photoshop. That picture is wicked nasty. I love it. :)

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[info]srain
2007-11-20 03:09 am UTC (link)
Now that it's all over I think I am allowed to admit that I totally chose the theme in honor of you. I was extremely pleased with your picture and thrilled that you won. Hooray!

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