Tara's fan art

[Tara]

I made a giant batch of icons yesterday for where_no_woman, and made this manip so I could have a young!Winona Kirk in Kelvin uniform icon.

(Inside my head, Jennifer Morrison grows up to be Gena Rowlands...)

 

[Kaiser]

I made a giant batch of icons yesterday for where_no_woman, and made this manip so I could have a young!Winona Kirk in Kelvin uniform icon.

(Inside my head, Jennifer Morrison grows up to be Gena Rowlands...)

Cool

 

[Tara]

New art!

 

[Kaiser]

WOW! How did you make the last one it looks so real...

 

[Tara]

WOW! How did you make the last one it looks so real...

Magic of Photoshop, and over a decade of practice?

 

[Kaiser]

ahh ok then

 

[judge alba]

these are pretty dam good

 

[Focus Abbey]

I'm totally geeking over these manips. I've actually contemplated writing about the future of Pike and Number One myself. I'm definitely going to find some time to read your fanfic.

 

[Tara]

I've actually contemplated writing about the future of Pike and Number One myself.

there can never be too much Pike & Number One! When you do, let me know and I'll add the story to the masterlist.

Their fates in the TOS universe depress me, so I tend to concentrate on their future in AOS instead, tho I have been writing Mirror Universe as well lately (one finished story, 3 in progress) which is deeply disturbing, but interesting.

 

[Focus Abbey]

Their fates in the TOS universe depress me...

Indeed. I try to ignore "The Menagerie." My own dissection of "The Cage"—it's technology, terminology, and implied timeline—led me to conclude that it's really incompatible with established Trek canon and, in my opinion, should be viewed as something else. An alternate universe or the like.

Thanks for the masterlist link!

 

[fleetcaptain]

Looks great again. Love the first one of Number One.

 

[Tara]

Looks great again. Love the first one of Number One.

I had RIDICULOUS amounts of fun with that! It's a combination of a half-dozen different images, with a lot of manipulation, particularly to the uniform and hair (and, erm... the curls on her shoulder are actually mine, because I couldn't find source I liked for hair!).

 

[fleetcaptain]

Nice. Glad to hear you had fun with that. I wish I could play around in photoshop lately since I don't have it here at home.

 

[Tara]

 

[Michael]

Tara, my hat is off to you. Some fantastic work there. I especially like that last pic of Mirror Pike.

 

[Kaiser]

very good Photomanips

 

[fleetcaptain]

I have to agree with them. You are impressive with that work of yours. Keep it up.

 

[Ziz]

Ok, I gotta ask this because I've fooled with it over and over and can't seem to get it right.

How do you balance skin tones? If a face is a little more red and a body is a little more green, how do you get them to match? Just play with Hue, Curves, something else? What's the easiest way vs. the best way?

 

[Tara]

I keep different elements of differnt layers, and usually experiment with the "Variations" in PhotoShop CS4--adding colour, and using "Fade Variations" until tone and temperature matches. I'll also tinker with saturation. My working .psd files end up having dozens of adjustment layers and effects layers, sometimes. I am a tinkerer--I just mess with things until they look the way I think they ought to look....

 

[Tara]

More art courtesy of st_respect's Bonus Round challenge last night.