Activity for User 480 - Alan Kaplan - akaplan973@gmail.com

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54 Jul 23 Reply Thank you for your feedback. I agree. We are not looking for realism here. I use Photoshop Creative Cloud which is a subscription model of Photoshop. I pay a monthly fee and have access to upgrades as Adobe provides them. In my description of my image I said that I use "a standard shadow technique," not "the standard shadow technique" as you wrote. I point this difference out only because there are a few shadow techniques using Photoshop, many which have several steps. I found the one I use by Googling "Photoshop shadow techniques" and picked one that I felt comfortable with. Happy hunting. Jul 10th
54 Jul 23 Reply I'm happy you see this as a successful image. I had so much fun playing with the mannequins and their shadows that there is another mannequin fantasy in progress. Jul 8th
54 Jul 23 Reply Thank you for your comments. I agree that the viewer should be seeing a darker side of the mannequins, but as the title suggests, I did not want a more realistic look. Mannequins, themselves, do not imply realism. I'm working on another mannequin fantasy. So far, it's still a work in progress. Jul 8th
54 Jul 23 Comment Today in the northeast United States it is 93F/34C. This composite gives some respite from the heat. The absence of leaves, the snowflakes, and the snow on the ground all contribute to a sense of cold comfort. However, there are a few elements that distract me. The butterflies and the frog are distractions from the feeling of a cold day which you have presented so well and keep the viewer from wandering into the scene to get to the house. On a snowy day, the wonderful little house would not be seen so clearly. Perhaps reducing its opacity would help it fit in better. Finally, there's a branch which looks like the right side of a parenthesis and seems out of place. This is the winter equivalent of your Wyeth scenes and would be better served with a little editing. Lots of potential here. Jul 5th
54 Jul 23 Comment Exuberance is the one word description I would give this explosion of petals. One can't help but be tickled by what you have accomplished here. You have to smile looking at the petals zooming across the room. My wife loves having fresh flowers in our living room. This is the next best thing! Jul 5th
54 Jul 23 Comment The purpose of art is to pose questions that the viewer must wrestle with. Otherwise the image is just decoration. This is art. Well done! My background preferences are illustrated in the attachment below. Just a difference in style, but I feel there is more focus on the psychological effect with less background. Jul 5th
54 Jul 23 Comment This is a good example of "less is more." Your technique works pretty well with the flowers, and they should be the focus of your efforts. Including the child, the dog, and the woman with the umbrella detracts from the colorful flowers that attract the viewer's eye so easily. I've attached a Monet painting of flowers for comparison. The many wonderful colors in your flowers deserve the focus of your attention. Jul 5th
54 Jul 23 Reply Thank you for your kind feedback. Actually, in the Photoshop toolbar that runs across the top, choose Select and then Subject in the dropdown menu. Photoshop does most of the work in selecting the subject, in this case mannequins. Jul 4th
54 Jul 23 Comment I see a lot of potential in your ghostly image. You have a nice diagonal in this composite, but you were right, there's so much sky that the diagonal is lost. The ghost in the foreground detracts from the ghost on the hill as she is too close to its line of sight. I moved her forward, reduced her size accordingly, and darkened the whole scene to emphasize her whiteness. Perhaps reducing her opacity might also make her more ghost-like. With the woman forward and the sky cropped, the diagonal stands out more. The revised version gives the viewer 2 ghosts to focus on and neither blocks the other. I hope you don't mind my revising your image so much. There, indeed, is a lot of potential here. Jul 1st
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