"O" Wallpapers plus tutorial

GrumpyOne · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:19 am Post subject: "O" Wallpapers plus tutorial

There is only one TF girl starting with O. I selected this one to demonstrate how to deal with a severe color cast in the original image. This is the final product, and I will take anyone that is interested through the process I used to get there.

GrumpyOne · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:27 am Post subject: Original image

This is the original image. It is one of the earlier TF images and was shot in a studio with a red backdrop. The boot is cut off on the left side and the top is right up against the right edge, there is a little problem with the drop cloth covering the sole of the boot and the logo is close to her leg. Nothing too difficult here.

GrumpyOne · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:33 am Post subject: Extracted image

Once the image has been extracted and cleaned up, there is an obvious problem. The red color from the photo set has polluted the image with reflected red. The white background brings this out clearly.

The hair, the boots, her skin and top show the red.

GrumpyOne · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: Background

I can "hide" the color cast by using a red background. I used two layers. The top layer is a pattern. I set the opacity to 80% and put a bright red layer beneath it to get the color effect that I wanted.

GrumpyOne · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:47 am Post subject: Add extracted image

Next step was to add the extracted image and clean up the hair and add the name. I find that there is something missing - the image seems too bare.

The color cast is still there, but is well hidden by the red in the background.

GrumpyOne · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: Add some noise

I added some noise to the image to take away from the bare expanse of red. All the layers were combined to make the final image.

GrumpyOne · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: Olya

Another Met-Art girl

GrumpyOne · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:15 am Post subject: Ogenennaja

Ogenennja, a cute redhead appeared on Met-Art for the first time a few days ago. It was fun coming up with a background that complemented this colorful set.

GrumpyOne · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: Olga G

I've been far too busy to work on wallpapers lately, but I came across a set of images from Met Art that just said "turn me into a wallpaper".

A gorgeous body, yet the only part of her face that we can see are her eyes. Very mysterious in a way.

This is Olga G.

GrumpyOne · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: More Olga G

A bit more experimentation with this Met-Art model.

Abraxas · Administrator Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 2308

Nice work, GrumpyOne. I really like the work on that final image.