Share your homemade Christmas card!

[Danoz]

Do you make a Christmas card at all? This year I'm going for some photoshop madness:

http://www.facebook.com/danieljport...736853624&set=a.889947865414.2509806.23308717

Mostly this was for my students, but I'm getting some prints of it to mail around. Only took about an hour w/ a tripod and photoshop.

Show us your Crhistmas card!

 

[TrekkieMonster]

Very cute, and a fun idea.

This was actually mine from last year (not as happy with this year's). Everything is real, except for the Santa hats, which were added in PhotoShop.

Not nearly as creative as yours, but I'm a relative PS novice, and I thought it came out pretty well.

 

[Danoz]

Love it!!! The hats are great --- love how you isolated the read. Both labs? My cousin and his wife have a black lab, a yellow lab, and a red lab (they are insane... NOW she gets pregnant lol).

 

[TrekkieMonster]

Love it!!! The hats are great --- love how you isolated the read. Both labs? My cousin and his wife have a black lab, a yellow lab, and a red lab (they are insane... NOW she gets pregnant lol).

Yup, both labs: yellow and chocolate (can't really tell that in the B&W version), and litter-mates, believe it or not.

had the idea clearly in mind, and learned the technique via Google, believe it or not. The original pic was color, and I essentially layered the B&W converted version over the original color version (on which I cranked up the red saturation a bit) and then "erased" the areas of the B&W layer where I wanted the red to show through. The hats were just "pasted" on, though I also did that on the color version before doing the B&W conversion, and used the same "erasing" technique in an effort to make the effect consistent. Was a bit tedious, but fun at the same time, and I loved the result. I'm glad you liked it, too.

I have to say that I love what you did. I've tried, but have never been able to achieve the realistic lighting and shadow effects you were able to achieve with your "clones". Kudos!

 

[Danoz]

I have to say that I love what you did. I've tried, but have never been able to achieve the realistic lighting and shadow effects you were able to achieve with your "clones". Kudos!

Lighting was tough, only because of the giant window and the changes in lighting/cloud cover over the 4-5 minutes of shooting and changing positions. In total I layered 16 photos overtop of oneanother and then just carefully selected and removed the parts of the background necessary to expose the next stuffed animal location. Pretty fun-- hardest part is consistent lighting when you're dealing with outdoors--- I upped the exposure a little to compensate.