990 Skylight

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.



Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode, and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes” at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

Nice. I just can't picture how to replace the bulb on that light

gordon
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Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.

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Member said:

Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB
color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode,
and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes”
at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Thanks Gordon. Changing the lamp needs a very tall ladder, and freedom from the fear of heights.

Cheers!

Furrukh

GC said:

gordon
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Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.

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Member said:

Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB
color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode,
and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes”
at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.

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Should call it Funhouse. I keep wanting to stand on my head
to look at it, but it looks best oriented the way it is.

Great effect you've achieved there.

ian

Cool! I like the colors, very subtle

Thanks.

Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.



Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB
color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode,
and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes”
at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Thanks Ian. I really like the effect of coloring grayscale images (converted to RGB) with the brush set to “normal” and a low opacity. I am thinking about coloring some of my older, drabber, images this way, to put some punch in them.

Cheers!

Furrukh

ian said:

Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.

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Should call it Funhouse. I keep wanting to stand on my head
to look at it, but it looks best oriented the way it is.

Great effect you've achieved there.

ian

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Thanks Imp. I tried to hold myself back on the colors, and keep everything subtle. It is very easy to get carried away in Photoshop.

Cheers!

Furrukh

Imp said:

Thanks.

Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.



Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB
color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode,
and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes”
at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Very pretty image, Furrukh.

How did you come up with the colors you chose here? I don't have any design background, and as such would be baffled as to how to 'paint' my images. I think you really got away with something here...

Greg

Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.



Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB
color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode,
and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes”
at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

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What did you use to create the borders for your pics on the zing web site? Great tool, whatever it is.

Andy

Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.



Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB
color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode,
and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes”
at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Greg, unfortunately I don’t have a rule as far as choosing colors are concerned. I have a long history of oil painting (won two national fist place awards back in my home country when I was in high school). I am sure there are books on the topic of graphic design and color. The only advice I can give is to hold your self back when using color. Color is more dangerous then black and white. The temptation to overdo colors is very strong.

When using the brush tool in Photoshop in “color” mode, and certain opacity value, the color gets laid on top of each stroke once you lift your fingers off the mouse button. Much like water color, each successive stroke gives stronger effect. So if you want to lay the color in one even layer (as I did in this photograph) then you should do the whole thing in one go without lifting your fingers off the button. If you keep the opacity to around 20% then the colors will be laid down in subtle pastel tones, without masking the texture of the image.

Wish I could help you more in choosing colors.

Cheers!

Furrukh

Greg Durrett said:

How did you come up with the colors you chose here? I don't have any
design background, and as such would be baffled as to how to 'paint' my
images. I think you really got away with something here...

Greg

Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.



Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB
color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode,
and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes”
at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Andy, for the fancy frames I used PhotoFrame by Extensis:
http://www.extensis.com/

The simple borders were drawn directly in Photoshop.

Cheers!

Furrukh

Andy said:

Andy

Furrukh said:

A Skylight above the staircase. Hope you enjoy it. Taken by a Nikon 990.



Ambient light. Converted to grayscale in Photoshop. Converted back to RGB
color, and painted by the brush tool, set to “color” mode,
and opacity of 20%.

Larger version, with better texture, in my album “990 Scenes”
at:
http://www.zing.com/member/?name=khanosu

Cheers!

Furrukh

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Furrukh,

Man, you shoot, you paint, you saw, what else can you do.

I always wanted to learn oil, but I'm blaming my geeky pursuit for robbing me the chance to learn while in school.

I have experimented with hand painted oil effect in photos. This is one of the experiments. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it more painting like? I used photoshop, wacom tablet with history brush tool and "paint" by hand one stroke at a time.



happy painting,
gordon
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Furrukh said:

Greg, unfortunately I don’t have a rule as far as choosing colors
are concerned. I have a long history of oil painting (won two national
fist place awards back in my home country when I was in high school). I
am sure there are books on the topic of graphic design and color. The
only advice I can give is to hold your self back when using color. Color
is more dangerous then black and white. The temptation to overdo colors
is very strong.

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Hi Gordon. The oil paint effect you have managed to give the image looks extremely good. I am impressed. You are also a man with many talents. I haven’t tried simulating oils in Photoshop. I remember seeing the work of some of my friends in Germany, who had done some incredible simulations of oil paintings. I think they used PaintPro (maybe I am confusing the name of the software). I mean the one, which uses fractals to implement brush strokes. The charcoals and paints in that program looked very natural. With a graphics tablet, it was possible to produce some pretty good oil paintings. You have probably tried out that software.

Cheers!

Furrukh

GC said:

Man, you shoot, you paint, you saw, what else can you do.

I always wanted to learn oil, but I'm blaming my geeky pursuit for
robbing me the chance to learn while in school.

I have experimented with hand painted oil effect in photos. This is one
of the experiments. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it more
painting like? I used photoshop, wacom tablet with history brush tool and
"paint" by hand one stroke at a time.



happy painting,
gordon
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Furrukh said:

Greg, unfortunately I don’t have a rule as far as choosing colors
are concerned. I have a long history of oil painting (won two national
fist place awards back in my home country when I was in high school). I
am sure there are books on the topic of graphic design and color. The
only advice I can give is to hold your self back when using color. Color
is more dangerous then black and white. The temptation to overdo colors
is very strong.

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