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Freshwater Films
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6025
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 10:03 am: | 
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I am not adept at manipulating images and I need to do so as soon as possible. What I need is to take an image of an avenue or street in NYC with towering skyscrapers on each side of the street and replace the street between the buildings with a river. So that the image looks like 42nd street has turned into a river.
If anyone can help me do that I am a pretty fast learner.
I appreciate any and all assistance.
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Blew
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1379
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 10:27 am: |
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I could do that type of work or give you guidance on how to use Photoshop if you have specific questions. But clearly PS is a complex program and the tutorial would take a long time (ESPECIALLY if we did it on MOL through posts).
Do you have the source images you want to use? If not where do you plan on getting them? What will you be using the image for ultimately? Online website? or Print? Because doing it for print would be a little more complicated in some ways (mostly because you are dealing with a bigger file and you need to be a bit more precise. Also if your using the images commercially you might need to get permission to use the source imagery. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 8950
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 2:39 pm: |
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There's no good way to do it DIY or on the cheap without it looking kinda hokey. If it were my baby, I would use Bryce (fractal terrain generator) and Photoshop and would budget $300-500 for the perfect nyc stock photo. |
Freshwater Films
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6033
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 4:38 pm: |
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hmmmm
thanks for the info you two.
I think I am screwed.
I just need it for a presentation to investors for the film Naked by the River. I wanted to have the two distinct worlds represented in the image, that of the bustling cutthroat world of NYC Law Firms as juxtaposed with the serenity and peace of a meandering river. So I thought that a nice way to do that was with an image as I described above.
I will think on't. |
Blew
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1388
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 4:55 pm: |
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A presentation to investors is fine to use copyrighted material (that you've adulterated), and when you say a presentation do you mean print or on-screen?
I would say start looking for the PERFECT images compositionally and size-wise (for an onscreen presentation that would mean not super huge 800x600 or so -- whatever your screen dimensions are set for). Once you found them we can take a look to determine the amount of work.
Do you have a copy of Photoshop? If not what program are you planning on using? I'm not saying I can do the work for you, but maybe if it is small (after seeing your assets I might know better) I can knock it out for you quickly. |
Freshwater Films
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6034
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 5:08 pm: |
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It's for print. And I do have photoshop. Even tried to muck around with it, so far, to no avail. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 8952
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 5:37 pm: |
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You'll spend 3 weeks searching for a river photo that was taken at the same angle and similar light source as some hypothetical cityscape photo. If you're lucky.
Another issue is that NY streets are angular and rivers are curved. It won't look serene. It will look like a flood. |
Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 4178
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 6:12 pm: |
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Duncan, if you get the images for me I can try to spend a few hours in Photoshop putting it together for you. PL me if you are interested. |
Eponymous
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Username: Eponymous
Post Number: 145
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 6:32 pm: |
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The GIMP is free and good. Not something to learn in a few minutes, of course. |
Blew
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1391
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 2:07 am: |
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When I had a 8 month stint on a PC doing NON-Graphics work I decided to rely on The GIMP. I agree it is useful, but I didn't feel that it was good nor did I think it was a substitute for the real thing. PS blows it away in a million ways (which i suppose is to be expect for very many hundreds of dollars more. But I literally couldn't do a lot of things well that I could do in PS easily. |
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