phil_royall1

The angel of the north, tried to get it so that the sun acted as a

halo adding more significance to the name of the statue,

Cheers,

Phil

What do you think?

Phil

For example..

To me the main problem with this one is the colour, dissentry biege is never a colour which is going to make people jump up and down! I think for instance if you had chosen an 80A (very blue) filter instead the serenity of the scene would have been conveyed much better.

On the whole though your photography is good, the tattoo parlour ones especially.

Cool, let me know how you get on. Feel free to mail with any questions,

Phil

Hi Stacey,

I too cannot afford photoshop, £600 is a hell of a lot for an amatuer! I use the GIMP, it's a freeware version of photoshop, quite easy to use (once you get up to speed) and it is FREE!!! I know that most professionals use Photoshop, but I'm fairly sure there isn't £600 worth of extra features if you're only doing occasional dabbling.

You can download the windows version from here http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/ I'm sure that there are fellow GIMPers on this board (including myself) would be happy to help out where we can.

Hope this helps,

Phil

Hi Stacey,

Firstly, nice balence between sky and sand. OK how I clean up scans is like this:

Scan in way bigger than you need, if possible, this will help greatly in the next step. Run the despecle filter in the GIMP/Photoshop, radius of one or two if it's really bad. This gets rid of all of the grain you didn't like.

Next use the unsharp filter to get the nice sharp edges back. Last time I used it the values were:

Radius: 1.8

Amount: <100% (photoshop) <1 GIMP

Threshold: Usually about 5

Try different amounts of these settings using undo/redo and pretty soon you have a sharper image than your original!

Now resize your image down to a nice size to post any you're on.

Hope this helps,

Phil

All womments appreciated, my first attempt at the painting with light

technique. Shot on Velvia, converted to B/W and adjusted with the

GIMP,

Cheers,

Phil