Ghost!

[pursuer]

ok, not quite but my niece asked me to create an image of her that looked like an old photo of a ghost, what do you guys think. Any tips on making the photo look old?

 

[lazarus219]

i think youve done a great job making it look old- the bleak colors and grain help alot, maybe dropping some more color or brightness could help?

 

[Midnight Reign]

Great job on the ghosting effect.

 

[mentos_007]

wow amazing effect! great job!

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

looks great!

 

[aprilraven]

i just love this shot...that is so cool... i would love to have a shot of my child like this...or since my father is gone..i would love to have one of him at his favorite place...that would be great.....thanks for the idea....maybe i can get a friend to do it!! (hint hint...)

 

[pursuer]

Thanks a lot guys, she really liked it. As for the ghost effect I just stopped down so I could take a long exposure and got her to move out of the way half way through.

 

[BadRotation]

Only thing to make it look older is getting rid of that newer chair, and maybe adding some dust/scratches to it.

 

[thebeginning]

nice effect! i love doing this kind of stuff, it really surprises people sometimes.

 

[LaFoto]

For some unknown reason, echo.cx refuses to open photos up for me. Not even the "non-direct approach" will work...
Not to be able to see a photo by pursuer kind of ruins my morning :cry::cry::cry:

 

[vixenta]

This photo couldn't get any ghostlier, to me! what a great effect

 

[John E.]

Well done, the effect, conversion and even apart from the effect well framed and good expression, she looks like a ghost bored of haunting.

 

[emayd]

Nice shot, but
for better ghost imitation you should apply a different transparencies for different part of image. Simmilar as picture with fog. It's quite easy in PS

 

[pursuer]

For some unknown reason, echo.cx refuses to open photos up for me. Not even the "non-direct approach" will work...
Not to be able to see a photo by pursuer kind of ruins my morning :cry::cry::cry:

LaFoto I wish I had a solution for you, this is the same host I use for all my images. It is very strange that you should suddenly have a problem with it.
If it happens again in the future let me know and I will look for a different host. You not being able to see my photo puts a damper on my morning as well

BadRotation I thought about adding dust and scatches but wasn't sure how to go about it. Im more acustomed to removing them then adding them Any suggestions?

Emayd, thanks for the idea. I suppose I could have taken a picture of her in the chair and then another of just the chair then combined them in PS using a layer mask to control different areas of transparency. However Im not sure how I could go about changing the transparency level of the image I have without doing a lot of work, it is a single exposure.

Thanks again everyone

 

[Chiller]

Great job pursuer. The effect is amazing.