When clients or fellow photographers pop by my studio I am always getting hit with suggestions on making my studio more......"professional looking"....So I thought I would post my reasoning for not spending a lot of money on a set up....
I know I may get in some trouble with the studio creators out there....and there is nothing wrong with them...sure they serve a purpose with their fancy gadgets, backgrounds and the like...and if you can get a hold of a freebie studio...have at it:) But if you are like myself, who uses sim backgrounds and don't need pre-made backgrounds or use a custom light setting...a simple box made by your own widdle hands will do just fine...
Total cost of my studio? 10$L for the texture upload...lol
My process is very simple...Avatar on blue screen....background taken separate at sim of choice then drag and free transform Avatar...easy peasy:) For those going "Free transform? easy wha?" Fear not...it's not as hard as you think...
I open a new doc....usually a large size like say, 4000wx6000h.......HUGE....lol I open my background pic....drag it onto the new layer.....then up in Edit at the top of your interface, middle of the drop down menu is Free Transform. What that will do is select the background layer, framing it with lines with little boxes in the corners....just pull and stretch those lines until you background fills the new document......you will have to eye the proportions...make sure you aren't stretching it too thin, wide, tall....but you can stretch this to an unbelievably large size and move the background pic around to focus on something in particular in that pic....or just to fit.....but the awesome thing about this tool is this.....It will stretch that picture WITHOUT loosing resolution!!!
If you have tried to resize a pic to fit a larger document, then dragged it to the doc...you will notice it's blurry....not crisp.....that's because it's lost it's resolution.....Free Transform eliminates that all together.....
Now...when you get more confident with this tool you can play with the warp feature....perspective, distort...all kinds of fun things..and soon....it will be a tool you can't live without.
Give it a try!
i've always said there's no reason for those expensive studio setups.. no offence to the people who have made them, but a huge box that you can colour change, and a pose stand that lets you easily flip though poses is good enough for me!
ReplyDelete*nods* I remember back in the day I sprung for one of those NEO studios or N3O whatever they are....hasn't left my inventory for a year...lol All I used on it were the chroma key backgrounds anyway...and it was SO bulky....
ReplyDeleteI think if people want to FEEL like they are in a real studio in world, to enhance the experience or just for fun, then these things are fine...but they need to know they are spending money on ambience and not necessity...
Thanx for your comment Nimil:) *hugs*