Image Hospital: Help With Image Problems Here!

[Aislin]

For an image I am doing right now, I wanted to use the Alpha blur, for some fading effect, now, a part of the selection does not blur, I do not know If I do something wrong or that there is a bug... I'll show you:

I started off with this one. a background and a woman (both on a different layer

Now I added a new layer - copied a small selection from the background and added it on the layer on top of the woman as shown here :

I got the rectangle select tool from around middle height till bottom of the image (to speed up) and set the alpha blur setting to 45, and next is the result of that:

you see in the right corner it's not been blurred, even if I set the settings to 100 that part does not blur at all...

After testing all of my blurs (I think I have them all) just the Gaussian blur+ and the Alpha blur gave me this weird result at the right bottom corner

so, just try and smudge it? or is there somewhere a bug?

[yellowman]

I am trying to follow your steps but never get your result, the right edge effect is what I am getting with Alpha Blur but on the whole selection, I can't understand, how could you get that faded edge on the left part? All Blur tools won't give the effect that you have achieved.

EDIT: BTW, have you tried to repro it on another file? Because I noticed that you are using two different selections in the last two images, they are not the same exactly. Is it possible to provide a screen shot for the Layers window?

Edited January 27, 2012 by yellowman

[Aislin]

sure I'll post a screenshot with the layers, but there are many ;-) by the end of the day (europian time) I'll have it posted, I must now clean and study, unfortunatly...

[Aislin]

a screenshot of pdn, while doing alpha blur (I first finished all the rest of the image and put all that in one layer, otherwise it would have been too much) and yes, that is my entire screen, two screens actually, the one I use pdn for is a computer flat screen plugged into my acer aspire one, where pdn is running on and on the right side is my acer screen did not had the mood to cut that part away...

EDIT: click the image you will be linked to my flickr, right click and choose bigger size

[Aislin]

by the way... with gaussianblur + it comes with this weird result ONLY if I set the setting to: Alpha channel only

[Aislin]

hated the waiting, so I fixed it in a different way... I erased the part with the weird result, copied a good part, pasted it on a diff layer, and stretched it with the selection tool... so it looks a lot what I had in mind ;-)

[Race Pro Kid]

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Edited June 23, 2013 by Race Pro Kid
NO we can't. ShutterStock are entitled to protect their images.

[minners71]

Here's a quick try at it.

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Edited June 23, 2013 by Ego Eram Reputo
ShutterStock have EVERY right to protect their images. Do not remove the watermarks except by paying for the image.

[pdnnoob]

Not sure what to do with this...http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/172/0/2/butterfly_by_agentbunni-d6a3ggx.png

I feel it could become so much more, but I can't seem to add anything without upsetting the clarity.

[HELEN]

Pdnnoob, how about a few more grass blades to the left to balance the image out or maybe round stones? By the way, the simplicity is perfect.

[barbieq25]

I agree, some pebbles & blades of grass or even sort of curvy line (like a brush stroke) for a horizon line. I think it needs a bit of a horizon line but other than that - I love it! 

[pdnnoob]

Added a "horizon" and "stones" and did a little shifting. I think it looks quite a bit better. Thanks guys!

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/174/5/2/butterfly_by_agentbunni-d6a3ggx.png

Interestingly, even with the huge size, it only takes up less than 50kb...the thing would probably load faster than most 800x600 images on the forum xD Talk about minimalism!

[HELEN]

It makes me smile. It's lovely. To me, it's perfect.

[barbieq25]

Hey, well done! Now it looks "balanced". It makes me smile too Helen The flowers look like they are smiling. A simplistic image but a very good one.

[babypoodle]

As you can see its a 4 'next' buttons with different styles. How can i do the same styles in a 4 buttons too, but with this shape? So i can attach it like this.

Edited June 25, 2013 by babypoodle

[yellowman]

@ babypoodle, Try this technique, use the built in Emboss for more flexiblity to the light direction:

http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/22702-make-a-3d-shield-icon/

[ErnieEarnshaw]

Im working on a sig, i found a cool stock of a viper and im trying to work with it, but im just not sure how i should use it. what i did looks terrible.... im stuck. I wanted kinda a dark color scheme for the background, then the car to be the main focal point.

edit:well..this is much better, but still not right...iono what it needs.

edit: alright im gona edit this one more time, im not sure if im going down the right path, input please

 

The last one theres looking very good.

[phenomenaldeath]

Need some help with how to make the letters pop a little bit more. 

[phenomenaldeath]

thx welsh def will try that

[BoltBait]

Here is my first try at an ambigram signature. I did it all by hand (and it looks it).

Can anyone help me make a better one?

Send help!

[Ego Eram Reputo]

My attempt:

 

 

Ok - so it's a bit hairy

 

The "o" could lose the bottom nub and the "i" should have a longer tail.  I found it dang hard to make the combination "lt" into a "b".

 

Lots of fun!  This should be a competition.

[BoltBait]

Wow, EER! That's WAAAAAY better than mine! +1 from me.

[david.atwell]

Very Tolkienesque, EER.  Maybe try taking the top of the ascender off of the a?  Then as an o, it would look a bit less strange, without sacrificing any readability as an a (less like "baltbait").

[BoltBait]

This is the one that always blew me away:

https://d2nh4f9cbhlobh.cloudfront.net/_uploads/galleries/17874/the-princess-bride-poster.jpg

It doesn't even look like a lame attempt... it looks perfect. One of the best one's I've ever seen.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Cleaned it up a bit.

 

 

Then I had to go and fiddle with it