----------------------------------- josh Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:51 pm Making an Immage darker and scarrier ----------------------------------- I am making a background for the school play in photoshop that is going to be projected as a background on the stage and I need to take an immage of a forest and make it very greyish and dark. I was wondering how to make a filter so that an immage becomes more dank (I have tried burning the immage but it didn't get the look I wanted). Any help would be appreciated. I have photoshop 7.0 ----------------------------------- Genesis Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:26 pm ----------------------------------- Did you try adujusting the levels? I'm not sure what effect you're looking for, but you could try that. Also try the lighting effects filter and see if you can acheive the effect you want by playing around with different types and values. You could also try desaturating it a bit, in combination with the ohter methods if you're going for a greyish/dark look. ----------------------------------- josh Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:30 pm ----------------------------------- kk I will try thta, I am kinda going for the look of the foirest in Harry Potter at nite or Fangorn forest in LOTR. ----------------------------------- Paul Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:48 pm ----------------------------------- If u turned it into greyscale, I'm sure everything will be greyish and dark :lol: ----------------------------------- josh Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:31 pm ----------------------------------- well I was thinking about tha but then it is to grey adn dark. I just wanted a musty sort of grey look that wasn't quite black. I really wanted Fangorn Forest form the Two Towers but all the shots I could find had characters taking up half of the shot. ----------------------------------- Genesis Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:15 pm ----------------------------------- Send me the pic (or post a link) and I'll show you some cool techniques. ----------------------------------- josh Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:56 am ----------------------------------- kk I will after I get bak fom skool. there is 2 of them. One is a daytime shot that I tried to burn and the other is the 1 where I tried to blur she outline of the characters out. thanx ----------------------------------- Genesis Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:11 pm ----------------------------------- Got those pics. Although the larger one is pretty difficult to do much with because of the odd lighting. But I'll work on it tomorow when I have some more time. (While I was looking for possible alternative forest pics to use I found one that already looks somewhat 'eerie'. I'm assuming that you're trying to achieve an effect similar to [url=http://www.cpawscalgary.org/graphics/cw2001-chow.jpg]this one.) ----------------------------------- Amailer Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:14 pm ----------------------------------- Wow, I never seen this topic. How come? So what do you want? To make a picture gray? Change the image type. Darker? CTRL+B (or is it CTRL+U see whcih one) and change the lightnes and etc. Depends on what you want. :) need help ask. ----------------------------------- josh Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:23 pm ----------------------------------- exactly, (me=bad at describing things) errie was the word I was searching for. That one is good. I think we are going to use a fog machine on the stage an stuff so I was tryig to get it to look like that. Thanks for the help. ----------------------------------- Genesis Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:30 pm ----------------------------------- Anytime. Though even with that one I posted, you can do a little photoshopping to make it look even darker/foggier. (Try some of the techniques I mentioned earlier.) And in combination with real fog I'm sure it will do a fine job achieving the desired effect. ----------------------------------- josh Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:31 pm ----------------------------------- I was playing around with the lighting on this one andI got this: http://tinypic.com/aqddt ----------------------------------- Amailer Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:41 pm ----------------------------------- Well, I downloaded the image you attached here.. (or i think its attached). And ill try and see what I can do, so um you want to make the image darker, basically night and add fog? lets see what i can do. ----------------------------------- josh Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:48 pm ----------------------------------- well this 1 I mae darker from the original immage but I can't figure out how to add a little fog ----------------------------------- Genesis Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:41 pm ----------------------------------- With a brush set to low opacity and low flow. (Is how I would do it.) I'll post my version tomorrow. ----------------------------------- josh Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:43 am ----------------------------------- kk, I will try that. Thanx