I didn't mean to hijack the Post your recent photo thread for Pixel Bender to take it over. I suggested that we start one just for that, so here it is. Not just to be used for Pixel Bender, but any kind of Altered, Manipulated or Bent image. Which can include Composites, Pixel Bender images HDR and Faux HDRs
To start off this thread, here is one of a young Red Tailed Hawk I took a while back, and recently ran through Pixel Bender.
Hey Tim...I really like that shot! Great Idea to start this alternate thread..you know I will have some submissions...at least until I leave for Kauai on Saturday.
Funny you should start this now after I threw a bunch of bended images on the best shots thread!!
Gregg
This one is still wet, just finished my first painting.
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I don't think being altered of bent helped me with the flowers though.
Steve
Steve U
Wine, Food and Photography Student and Connoisseur
Steve...there you go!! Still wet!! That had me laughing for a bit!!
Okay...I've got another. This one from Italy...the Island of Ortigia, Syracusa, Sicily
Tone mapped and Pixel-Bended...
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Tim, which filter in Pixel Bender did you use for the hawk?
Originally Posted by Alan
Oil Painting, Which I believe is only available for the CS5 version of Pixel Bender.
Thanks, Tim.
Do you push the brush scale up high, and leave the other settings pretty much alone?
Also, do you use CPU more than GPU? I tried the GPU on a simple jpg, and it knocked my graphics card onto the ground.
I've been hoping for a hawk in flight, but they all seem to know that I want to take their picture, and no matter how stealth I am on creeping up to them, they have a sixth sense about me. []
I usually keep the Brush Scale to the low side. But you have to play around with all the adjustments going back and forth between them all. You can make an adjustment with one and it will have an effect on another that you may not like. So I just play around with them until I get something that pleases me.
I use GPU, But if I use a full size Raw it might revert to using CPU automatically which can be very slow. But I haven't had any problems with it really.
For performance issues using CS5 here is a good read.
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/photoshop/pdfs/PhotoshopCS5_performance.pdf
Hawks have good hearing and eye sight and do spook very easy. A lot of birds are like that! I did spook this one when I was slowly approaching it, just so happens when it took to flight it came across my field of view rather than away from it.
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