Fantasy Valentine

[smoke665]

Continuing with my exploration of Firefly and Generative Text imaging. The background was the result of my strange mind trying to describe what I wanted. Phoebe was shot in front of a gray background to facilitate hair selection, but there was just enough gray in the fur, that I ended up having to do touch up with a hair brush. After that it was a simple process of pasting the image over the background using the new AI feature Neural Filters, Harmonization, to automatically blend the images, then the tone mapping.

no-image-available-grid.jpg by William Raber, on Flickr

 

[CherylL]

I haven't tried out the Nueral filter Haromization yet. Does it give you several options like the AI in Photoshop? Creative on the Firefly background. I would add shadow on the bottom of the pup. In the second photo I see a little. I usually add more at the base of the person or pup and then gradually less the farther away. Maybe clone a few of the floating purple hearts on top of the pup.

 

[smoke665]

I haven't tried out the Nueral filter Haromization yet. Does it give you several options like the AI in Photoshop? Creative on the Firefly background. I would add shadow on the bottom of the pup. In the second photo I see a little. I usually add more at the base of the person or pup and then gradually less the farther away. Maybe clone a few of the floating purple hearts on top of the pup.

I won't say that Harmonization is "better" than manual tone mapping but it is so close and so much faster that I'll be using it a lot more. It gives you sliders for Strength of the effect, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Saturation and Brightness. One thing I found is that it works cleaner if you do most of the processing on the subject then paste it in as a Smart Object. Otherwise it's easy to rack up a large document PSB file.

On the shadow I got lazy, to much going on, to many things to learn, and not enough time. I also didn't make any adjustments to light direction from the scene on the subject. Despite the fact that much of it is relatively easy to use, I ended up spending a lot of time rearranging work flow.

 

[CherylL]

I won't say that Harmonization is "better" than manual tone mapping but it is so close and so much faster that I'll be using it a lot more. It gives you sliders for Strength of the effect, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Saturation and Brightness. One thing I found is that it works cleaner if you do most of the processing on the subject then paste it in as a Smart Object. Otherwise it's easy to rack up a large document PSB file.

On the shadow I got lazy, to much going on, to many things to learn, and not enough time. I also didn't make any adjustments to light direction from the scene on the subject. Despite the fact that much of it is relatively easy to use, I ended up spending a lot of time rearranging work flow.

Even with AI there is still more to do manually. A composite I made for a friend placing him in the scene the AI contorted his hand and ears. Had to mask those areas.

 

[Jeff1574 74]

Lovely shots.....

 

[smoke665]

AI there is still more to do manually. A composite I made for a friend placing him in the scene the AI contorted his hand and ears. Had to mask those areas.

That's why I found it best to do my edits on the subject and selection seperate then transfer to the composite as a smart object.

 

[jeffashman35 8]

Cute shots, but I like the first one the best!