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Attached is what I think is an illusion - does it count?
It is not done "in the camera", so I am not sure it meets the intent.
When I took the picture of the girl I only had an office chair to work with in the back of an industrial building. I took her picture as one layer removing all but her.
I had a picture of a yellow hibiscus that I removed some of the "too busy" leaves and branches.
The background is two gradations with tan at the bottom to simulate sand and blue at the top to simulate sky.
The butterfly was added after all the other layers had been merged together.
When I merge each layer over another I use a small smoothing brush to mix the edges of the top layer with the background layer underneath. This makes the picture look like it was taken in a digital camera even when you zoom in with a viewer. Also you have to be careful of light angles and shadows (which can also be added to some extent).
I am amazed when I see a production where tens of millions of dollars were invested in Hollywood and they don't take the time to get rid of the interface edges - Raiders of the Lost Ark was the worst offender by far!
I have used Paint Shop Pro forever, stopping at version 9 when JASC sold out. In the old days (circa 1986) PSP was able to handle all file formats and allowed working on 24-bit images with EGA graphics cards.
I always carry a camera looking for pictures, foregrounds and backgrounds.
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Last edited by johnj45586; 11-17-2007 at 11:25 AM.
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