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Posted on 13/04/13 7:06:57 PM |
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Sjef
Flying Dutchman Posts: 571 Reply  |
Covering a locomotive
Info System: Windows 7 - 64 bits - Intel i5 - SDD-drive - 8 GB RAM File size: 8000 x 5344 px - 713 Mb Number of layers: 656 To load the file in CS5 - 64 bits: 12 seconds Loading the file in CS6 - 64 bits: 295 seconds! Saving from CS5 - 64 bits: 9 seconds Saving from CS6 - 64 bits: 80 seconds Original image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_Class_U_locomotive_Number_U127.JPG To download the photoshop image, uploaded as JPEG (10 Mb): http://members.ziggo.nl/t.rus/index.htm  |
Posted on 13/04/13 8:17:57 PM |
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Artwel
Satire Supremo Posts: 607 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Sjef.. The detail in your work is bordering on insanity  Amazing!_________________ "Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future" |
Posted on 14/04/13 12:24:34 PM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2884 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Absolutely incredible Sjef. Im gobsmacked!! Well done  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 14/04/13 1:03:33 PM |
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Sjef
Flying Dutchman Posts: 571 Reply |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Thanks, photoshop souls. There are a lot of faults in it though, but from them you learn the way to do things the right way, I think. And details, that's what it's all about. Thanks again Steve for your book 100% Photoshop, because that's what made me dare to do jobs like this. |
Posted on 14/04/13 3:26:58 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Sjef, Great work! A great work is never finished, but have to breakaway some time, even if to come back... As you can observe my 100% has not gone very far, but Steve a great inspiration. |
Posted on 14/04/13 3:29:45 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Covering a locomotive
I've got a photo of Pacific Class Loco in England (steam buffs). Not as shiny as that. It seems to have done some serious work and not very clean  |
Posted on 14/04/13 4:16:51 PM |
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Luis
Six-String Synthesist Posts: 236 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Sjef, I must say, that is incredible!! The detail that you put into this image is amazing. How long did it take you to create this? Luis |
Posted on 14/04/13 5:07:32 PM |
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Sjef
Flying Dutchman Posts: 571 Reply |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Thanks guys. I downloaded the picture on the 23th of january, so it took some months, but how many hours? Sorry, didn't keep count  |
Posted on 14/04/13 5:22:52 PM |
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Artwel
Satire Supremo Posts: 607 Reply |
Re: Covering a locomotive
It's all about that feeling of completion at the end. Photoshop can sometimes be like an endurance challenge. This would look great framed on your wall I'm sure. _________________ "Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future" |
Posted on 14/04/13 7:42:26 PM |
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Lorenzo1977
Montage Maximus Posts: 54 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
This is absolutely Amazing,congratulations it's terrific,im spechless |
Posted on 14/04/13 9:34:20 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1733 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
FANTASTIC--Mind blowing project Sjef -- congratulations --- 656 layers WOW!!! A tut on this would take a whole book. Frank |
Posted on 15/04/13 02:09:38 AM |
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joeysala
Perfect Palmist Posts: 604 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Yeah, I spotted the faults right away! There's the....ummmm....and the.......ummmm......and, of ourse, the......uhhhh. Well, anyway, they are SOOO obvious a child could spot them! Seriously, like everyone else, I'm completely amazed and in awe! _________________ "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art........" Joseph Conrad |
Posted on 15/04/13 06:33:24 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2998 Reply  |
Covering a locomotive
Sjef, what a marathon! Brilliant detail! Congratulations! |
Posted on 15/04/13 07:17:33 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6987 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Dazzling work. A hugely impressive drawing. You should consider moving into medical illustration! |
Posted on 15/04/13 09:35:52 AM |
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Sjef
Flying Dutchman Posts: 571 Reply |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Well, thanks all for those lovely words. It was quite a (time)challenge work to the end of a certain, steady model. I admire your weekly reactions on Steve's challenges, they're something different! I experience your ideas to be a lot more difficult and particularly: original! |
Posted on 15/04/13 1:21:28 PM |
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puffin31939
Montage Mariner Posts: 383 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Wow! Fantastic. Mind boggling! I am about to embark on the watch in Desk drawer and that is daunting!. I can't begin to imagine the talent you have. _________________ Man cannot change the direction of the wind but he can adjust the sails |
Posted on 15/04/13 3:45:25 PM |
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Sjef
Flying Dutchman Posts: 571 Reply |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Now now, talent... It's the time you spend on a job and most of all: practising mr. Caplin's 100% - book. Really every action I applied is written there! And I found THAT mind boggling. |
Posted on 15/04/13 9:17:09 PM |
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Paul 2007 thru 2010
Lego Legend Posts: 361 Reply |
Re: Covering a locomotive
I think I must be missing something here. The original photo was of a loco in a shed. Your final work is the same photo cut out from the background and placed on a map. Why all the adulation? Yes I see from the large image that you have recreated every detail of the original image. But the end result to anyone is that it looks like you have just cut out the original loco from its background. If this was just a practice/showcase of your skills/patience then shouldn't you have done it from a different angle or something? |
Posted on 17/04/13 08:45:44 AM |
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Sjef
Flying Dutchman Posts: 571 Reply |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Ha, at last some criticism. Thanks Paul. You're right about the practice/showcase what this kind of images concerns. You see, I use Photoshop for some years now, but only to enhance my photos and sometimes headings for articles (DTP). But since I purchased Steve's books, I discovered there's a lot more. So actually I'm just a beginner and I like creating this kind of graphical stuff, just to stretch my abilities and to get the routine in the way things are going using the Photoshop tools and the results they distribute. With posting this result on Steve's forum (I don't deny with some pride) I hope some of the visitors would say: hey, you'd better do this or that another way, so I'd learn new ways of getting results. On the other hand, I do this for my own pleasure and when Steve doesn't like it he removes my humble contribution and that's it. I don't mind, live is too short! 
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Posted on 17/04/13 09:37:37 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3959 Reply  |
Re: Covering a locomotive
Constructive criticism is an excellent thing but I'm sorry Paul I have to disagree with what you say. Many artists in the past have had praise heaped upon them because of their fantastic rendering of detail and perspective in both portraits and landscapes; they used a camera obscura to enable this detail. Are you saying that their work was any less good because of this? Many artists base their work on a photograph for the same reasons. I totally fail to see a problem with this. It's their artistic ability that is being critiqued. Sjef used the original photograph as a template. The merit in his work is based on the Photoshop techniques he developed, practiced and used to great effect. Anyone can trace around a photograph; for the less artistically able the resulting image would be just a parody of the original. Steve suggested that Sjef try his hand at medical illustration; a specialised field if ever there was one! If you are illustrating, for example, a heart, you wouldn't draw a heart shape and present that as your completed work; and you wouldn't try to draw one from memory. Chances are you would start with a photograph of a real heart that shows the point to be made for an article in a learned publication. The file created in Photoshop or Illustrator or even a 3D programme would be based on that template and is used to clarify various elements. Mention of 3D programmes reminds me that when I create, say, an aircraft, I have to start with a set of 3-view drawings. Should I just throw them away and draw from memory? May I ask why we never see any of your own work on this site? Sjef, I think your work is excellent. Continue to develop it and it will become even better. Gordon _________________  |
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