My latest artsy comp

[plugsnpixels]

My latest artsy! This one combines three original images I took several years ago into a composite using layers and layer masks. The original window shot was skewed into a flat perspective and the left side window framed restored by cloning the right side.

The storm cloud sky had a bit of lens flare applied to match the location where the window's sun reflection is. The sparse-cloud sky layer was scaled vertically to compress the clouds at the top of the composition. A layer mask was used to blend the cloud images together, and a drop shadow was added to the window layer.

What I like about this piece is the "lucky accident" where it looks like the sunset is coming through the window, but that's actually a reflection from the opposite direction.

[Haver Lemez]

Cool!

[plugsnpixels]

Or maybe with water on top instead?

[bnnrcn]

Very nice and creative work Mike

[plugsnpixels]

Thanks guys!

[plugsnpixels]

Before I did the straight Photoshop comp I tried some PostworkShop interpretations.

[bnnrcn]

WOW! How did you do these Mike , just brushing out some parts in layers?

[vaez]

wow you do very well

[plugsnpixels]

Glad everyone likes these!

To answer Binnur's question, the first two versions were done in Photoshop with layer blending modes and a basic gradient mask (see layers palette attached). The 3 very artsy ones just above were done using 1-click presets in PostworkShop, working through the options offered under the Drawing, Painting, Graphics Arts (etc.) sections. In these cases you see the immediate results; I sometimes go back in PS and blend two or three of the PWS effects together, or you can do this in PWS itself (see a tutorial about this in issue #24 here).

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[John 2]

Interesting and well done. Like all of the versions.

[plugsnpixels]

Thanks! My college-age daughter (who's in a photography class at the moment) asked me why the window is floating in the sky... Good question, but this is ART! ;-)

The earliest version of this work had me placing the window in the doorway of an old Western storefront and adding a PostworkShop effect. That juxtaposition made a *little* more sense...

[bnnrcn]

Nice version