cat portrait

StvShoop · Jun 17, 2004

fat cats are the cool ones. I really like this photo and i want to make a print of it for my family. I don't really like the black background though (and the junk in the background, which has to go of course).
This is manipulated a little in photoshop, desaturated and messed with the levels a bit. The "junk" in the background was more visible before editing. I'm contemplating bringing that stuff back, or maybe constructing some kind of dark wall/floor/i_dunno in photoshop.
or maybe a simple crop? thx ppl

here's a bigger one

before making brighter...
http://rpi.edu/~shoopr/files/photo/images/pic9.jpg

LaFoto · Jun 17, 2004

Erm, weeeeeellll, how do I express myself here.... um, all I see is black with a little bit of foreground. I even closed the blinds as to minimize reflection on my screen, but it doesn't help any... How am I to critique a photo on which I don't see anything???

StvShoop · Jun 17, 2004

ack, sorry.
i can see it fine on my screen, but I admit i noticed that it looked lighter/darker when viewed thru different applications.

it's a really tight balance that i'm shooting for, but if you can't see it at all, that's no good. i'll brighten it and hope for the best

edit: ok, fixed i hope

usayit · Jun 17, 2004

I can see the cat on my screen. It is pretty dark though. I see glimmers of light in the almost totally black background but I cannot tell what is in the background.

StvShoop · Jun 17, 2004

i plugged my laptop in to my desktop monitor and surely enough, the image was invisible.
i guess i learned some things i hadn't expected to :roll: always view a web graphic on multiple monitors before publishing.
hopefully this one is visible. if not, i'm out of ideas, aside from getting masichistic with the brightness setting.

Gatsby · Jun 18, 2004

StvShoop,

This was hit with the auto contrast in PS. Seems a lot clearer, but if you were going for the "smoky" look, prolly won't be want you wanted...

PS - cloned out your "junk" left the floor as is .... imvho it would look a bit floaty (?) without ..

Hope you don't mind.

Cheers,
Gatsby

StvShoop · Jun 18, 2004

thanks man
nice job with the ps. i was planning on having it really... maybe muted is the right word. but i hadn't seen this image with such a richness of different values, so that's something more for me to think about, thx man
the floatiness is what i was worried about earlier. i guess that existing bit of floor does something for it, but it's kind of wierd, like you can't tell if it's the floor or what. i need to get up off my butt and try different things with this image. bed first though