by john_uk » Mon May 21, 2007 1:20 pm
first of, the plane stands out like a big sore thumb. i can see how you tried to make it look photo realistic by useing sharpen. if you sharpen to much it does nothing but degrade the edges of the pic! in this case the plane. im not sure if you did a composite here as it looks as if everything has been sharpened.
i would recomend starting again. get your back ground (no aircraft just scenery or a photo if you want)
get a nice angle on a plane on a cloudless sky! so its easy to cut out.
paste the aircraft onto the background, sharpen it a LITTLE! as this can help but to much and the edges will start to glow and look crappy!
once the aircraft is on the background, play around with levels on BOTH layers, also playing with brightness and contrast can help a bit!
as for shadows, i have never realy tried them, but ive got a brief idea on how to do it, and i will attempt it once my exams are out the way for the week (wensday) so i will try and get a tut up by sat if my idea works.
thats all for now
cheers
john
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