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Marky_Mark said:
Picture I took myself: West Bay, Porthcawl, South Wales :)
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Thats a really beautiful real photo (you know what I mean, not photoshopped or 3D'd or anything!) Last time I was in Wales I was at Aber and Borth doing shore surveys! Had some lovely views over the hills behind the town, but nothing like that on the coast.

Lovely shot. Well taken,
 
Gil_Grissom said:
Thats a really beautiful real photo (you know what I mean, not photoshopped or 3D'd or anything!) Last time I was in Wales I was at Aber and Borth doing shore surveys! Had some lovely views over the hills behind the town, but nothing like that on the coast.

Lovely shot. Well taken,
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Thanks very much. I'd gone to take the sunset, and got more and more depressed as the clouds built up over the course of an hour. I was about to pack up my camera and suddenly these shafts of sunlight blazed down. It was all over in a couple of minutes, tops. I just had time to make a couple of white balance adjustments as I ran off a dozen or so shots, and this was the best one, as the gold was just a little more saturated. Other than that, what you see was what was there.

Thanks again for your kind words.
 
Marky_Mark said:
Thanks very much. I'd gone to take the sunset, and got more and more depressed as the clouds built up over the course of an hour. I was about to pack up my camera and suddenly these shafts of sunlight blazed down. It was all over in a couple of minutes, tops. I just had time to make a couple of white balance adjustments as I ran off a dozen or so shots, and this was the best one, as the gold was just a little more saturated. Other than that, what you see was what was there.

Thanks again for your kind words.
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No problem!

Are you willing to share the original? Many thanks!

(I keep trying to take nice shots like that, I don't have fancy equipment but I do what I can!)
 
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DJMastaWes said:
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Did you make that background image on your own? I've been looking for something similar to that but couldn't find one. Then again I could just photoshop one for myself but I'm lazy like that.
 
I have a string of pictures with my son that gradually colorize over 5 or 6 images....there are 10 different sets. I set it to change every 30 seconds...its an awesome effect.

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Gil_Grissom said:
Are you willing to share the original? Many thanks!
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If I get a chance at the weekend I'll post up a link. I'm away on business presently and this is just a flying visit to the forum.
 
My desk tops!
 

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Boggle said:
It certainly is cool. That's just a setting change?
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I'm at work so this is a quick and dirty guide on how i did it.

Its actually pretty easy...

1.Take an image and and photoshop areas into B&W with the Layer mask tool (See June MacWorld for details)... You can make as many steps as you want...each step is its own image. I start all B&W... then i can fade in just a couple bushes at a time...then the grass...etc.

2.Take each photo and place them in order alphabetically by file name (I used 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc) so they change in order) in their own folder.

3.Then go into System Preferences (desktop/ScrSav) and choose the folder with these images.

4. Set it to change every 5 seconds or however you choose. Because the images are the same in each transtion...all you see is the color fade.

If anyone has questions you can PM me. I will clean this up later on.
 
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