Fun with photoshop

[Sir Edward]

Added mugs and bottles to the cafepress shop with a Modern Chivalry logo.

http://www.cafepress.com/modernchivalry

Added logo shirts etc.

[Sir James A]

Tricky, but not impossible. If everyone took a photo with a plain grey surcoat, it wouldn't be hard to color-adjust them. I say grey, since white and black run the risk of being over or under exposed to the point of losing the fabric texture and wrinkle details. And with other colors, it can reflect on other parts of the armor. So if one person wears pink and someone else green, and then I color-adjust them all to be what we want, your eye can pick up on subtle details that are hard to fix, and thus it looks "fake".

Then again, sometimes there's a lot you can do as long as the lighting's pretty neutral.

It's been a long while since I've fiddled with photoshop for anything non-work (see: fun), and I still use PS7 (5 gens old?), but you can "select" the surcoat, then adjust > desaturate and it will make the color (red, green, blue, whatever) turn to grey. It would work best with single-color tunics without a COA of course, it's possible, but a little meticulous. I'm not sure if the newer CS versions handle it better, but I'd wager 20-30 minutes per person of effort with poster-sized images.

[Sir Edward]

Oh yeah, desaturation or color adjusting is pretty easy. I suggested grey just to avoid over- or under-exposure in the camera (and as a solid color to avoid having to remove details, etc).

[Sir Edward]

After posting in another thread about my "sword in the stone" wallpaper image, I thought I'd share how it went together. Here's the image again (clickable for the wallpaper-sized image), and the attachments are the images I started with:



The image is actually pretty heavily layered. I added a radial gradient that enhanced the color, putting an aqua tone in the lower left and a green tone in the upper right, but leaving the golden colors alone in the beams in the middle. There's a subtle dust layer following the sunbeam angles, and a glow around the glare on the rock and sword. Manually added some starbursts on the hilt. The rock's color balance is heavily tweaked (using three different tools) to make the grass color and illumination fit the theme a little better and take the blues out of the rock.

[Sir Brian]

OMG! I didn't realize you actually put that image together! I thought you found it on the
web somewhere!

That's freaking awesome!

My job causes me to miss to much stuff! 

[Sir Edward]

lol yeah, the first one in that other thread was one I found. Then I made this one.

[Sir Edward]

BTW, added the sword in the stone image to the cafepress shop, and made framed prints available as a second option for all the posters in there.

[Sir Wolf]

i set it as my desktop

[Sir Edward]

I ordered the poster-print of this from cafepress, and put it up in my cube at work. It's already receiving some compliments. The prints come out looking slightly darker than the image on-screen, but still not bad.

[Sir Wolf]

Sir Ace says you really need a copy of Roxio2011. it has a 3 D image maker with it. any picture  OR VIDEO can be converted. We were playing with it this evening. thank goodness the girls have their lil Barbie/Hanna Montana 3 D glasses hehehe. He even is working on your Excalibur image heheh

[Sir Edward]

I guess not all castles are ideal for photo ops.

[SirNathanQ]

What would be really great to do is add some french taunters in our castle shots! 

[Sir Edward]

I guess not all castles are ideal for photo ops.

Updating the image a little. Made the reflections slightly more natural in color/contrast, and added some wetness on the surcoats.

[Sir William]

I like it, Sir Edward.  I need to take new pics.

[Sir Matthew]

Now that I got my really cool plate armor, I need to get some pics for this. I'm hoping my buff coat comes this week, then hopefully I can get some good pics this weekend.