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[Vafann]

I had this idea that I would try to incorperate parts of one of my old poems into a picture. I don´t think it turned out so well, and it´s scaring even me :lol:.

This actually took quite a lot of work, and I don´t want to throw this one away, but I don´t know what to do with it.

Please give me some suggestions?

I am having a ball though, since I became a member of this site, and have been sucking in all the advice I have been given here, I´m starting to feel like Photoshop is kind of like learning to read, or telling time. It´s getting easier and easier, and my hands are moving faster and faster through the tools and things for every attempt I make. Coooooool .

 

[Hoogle]

I like it all though I would suggest a border maybe it is because I have the dark theme on but left side seems to get lost into the background but love the colours and composistion

 

[Vafann]

Oh, thank you Hoogleman! I will try to add a border. I think it needs something between the text part and the picture, again I have the same problem as usual to make things blend together.

 

[ibclare]

I think if you enlarged the fade from text to picture it might work better, maybe give it a bit more than 1/3 of the area. My first reaction? shudder. and I like spiders. Bu it's not the arachnid; it's the "baby" who doesn't seem to be floating in a basket on the water, but sinking below it. But maybe I'm being too literal, lol.

 

[Vafann]

Oh! Thank you Ibclare! How do I do that?

 

[ibclare]

well, I guess there'd be several ways (as so it goes in Photoshop! theme of the day; on other threads too). It depends. If you don't mind what size the document is, you could increase the canvas size to the right and transform the area. You'd be best to use the marquis tool and make a layer via copy to preserve your original though you can always backtrack via history, then transform that by lengthening it out, so long as it doesn't distort too much, but you could play with that. I don't know what you've got on what layer but of course you'd have to move the parchment all the way to the right. You could use a mask with a black and white gradient to make the fade. I think that might be the crucial part.

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Fiance bought a new car yesterday and we went cruising. :mrgreen:

 

[ibclare]

OK, so that's one way. Alternatively you could stretch out the right and shrink the left area a bit. That could be done in a subtle way so that you don't distort those figures much. That would be if you want to keep the same proportions.

BTW, in the first example, you don't have to be too careful about the canvas size since you can always crop it. Uhm, and you might consider a feather on the marquis when you layer via copy or cut. If you extend the selection to the area on blank canvas you won't feather and blur the right margin of your image on the layer above. Is that clear?

 

[Vafann]

Ok Iblare! I´ll try all of that!

 

[ibclare]

If you want a more precise image size than cropping will give you, use the canvas size adjustment and watch the positioning arrows. Then you can finagle your image to fit, if you have that leeway in your design.

We are in entirely different time zones I see. Where are you located? Somewhere in Europe? Let me guess... Austria, Hungaria... I'm not gonna guess UK (just becuz)... :mrgreen:

Or maybe you just stay up late . . .

 

[Vafann]

If you want a more precise image size than cropping will give you, use the canvas size adjustment and watch the positioning arrows. Then you can finagle your image to fit, if you have that leeway in your design.

We are in entirely different time zones I see. Where are you located? Somewhere in Europe? Let me guess... Austria, Hungaria... I'm not gonna guess UK (just becuz)... :mrgreen:

Or maybe you just stay up late . . .

Hello Ibclare! Thank you again! For one thing I wouldn´t exactly call it "my design", it´s more like experimental practicing, so changing the canvas size would not be any kind of problem. I just didn´t know that you could do that. When I have tried to enlarge or shrink an image, I have gone to the image size thing, and I get mixed up there all the time, with the ppi, and the dpi, and the resolution. I have been making the original backgrounds like huge, because I don´t see very well at the moment, and I also want a lot of space to work with. If I can have a larger canvas without having to have the whole image gigantic like 50x70 cm that would be great.

I will check out and try to find the thing with the positioning arrows, that sounds really good.

And yes, I am in Sweden, I keep forgetting to put that in my avatar place thing.

You mentioned ":mrgreen:", I don´t know what you mean by that, but there is a swedish online casino called that, but if were to spend my time there I would end up on the street starving to death. LOL!

Thank you so much again! / vafann

 

[Vafann]

OH! I just saw that mrgreen is a smiley!! Lmao!

 

[ibclare]

If I can have a larger canvas without having to have the whole image gigantic like 50x70 cm that would be great. /QUOTE]

Well, I am not sure what you mean exactly, but just try it. I'm not sure why you have to have a gigantic image, but I seem to misunderstand written explanations anyway. I just pull out the handles and zoom the image to whatever size I want to see for working, so I'm not sure what you mean (I'm floundering here LOL).

You mentioned ":mrgreen:", I don´t know what you mean by that, but there is a swedish online casino called that, but if were to spend my time there I would end up on the street starving to death. LOL!

OH! I just saw that mrgreen is a smiley!! Lmao!
/QUOTE]

heh heh, luv ya