Welcome to the demonstration of my first image for BigStockPhoto.com. Here I will guide you through the processes that I followed to turn my first image into something that was worthy of being uploaded to the royalty free image website.
Here is the original image, taken in London on a relatively nice day
There wasn't too much to do with this image which made the process relatively of editing the photograph quite straightforwards.
The first step was to crop the image to the part that I wanted to use. This would take remove the need for any unnecessary editing. Cropping the image also meant that the obtrusive lamp post on the left hand side almost disappeared. You can see the results of the cropping below.
Step 2 involved removing any parts of the image that I didn't actually want to include in the final image. This was done by using the clone tool to copy individual or groups of pixels close to the section that was being removed. The following sections were removed from the image: the rest of the lamp post, the fluorescent lights present in the windows of one of the floors, and some other messy objects in some of the windows. The results of this stage are shown below:
Step 3 sorted out the awful sky colour. I wanted to make it look like the picture had been taken on a nice day, and as you can see from previous images, the sky was very grey. I therefore decided to create an artificial sunny day! This was done by creating a new layer and simply painting over the sky in blue, and setting the layer blending parameter to "Overlay." It took a while to find the right blue to use, because some blues didn't look "real" when overlayed onto the background layer beneath. I ended up using #004ae2 as the colour for the sky, which worked well, as you can see from the finished product!
So there we have it. My first image, ready to upload to BigStockPhoto.com. Check back here to find out if the image was accepted by the site (fingers crossed!), and if not, why not. I'll also be doing a separate post at the end of the Big Stock Photo project to outline the acceptance of the images to the site, or to correct any errors stopping them from being published in their catalogue.
On evaluating my work on this image, I think the only thing, if anything, that let me down was the dark reflections at the bottom of the block. However, I think my camera skills were excellent, and that this is a strong photo that should have no problem at all getting accepted to BigStockPhoto.com.
My next post will demonstrate how image 2 was edited before being uploaded to BigStockPhoto.com.
Step 2 involved removing any parts of the image that I didn't actually want to include in the final image. This was done by using the clone tool to copy individual or groups of pixels close to the section that was being removed. The following sections were removed from the image: the rest of the lamp post, the fluorescent lights present in the windows of one of the floors, and some other messy objects in some of the windows. The results of this stage are shown below:
Step 3 sorted out the awful sky colour. I wanted to make it look like the picture had been taken on a nice day, and as you can see from previous images, the sky was very grey. I therefore decided to create an artificial sunny day! This was done by creating a new layer and simply painting over the sky in blue, and setting the layer blending parameter to "Overlay." It took a while to find the right blue to use, because some blues didn't look "real" when overlayed onto the background layer beneath. I ended up using #004ae2 as the colour for the sky, which worked well, as you can see from the finished product!
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So there we have it. My first image, ready to upload to BigStockPhoto.com. Check back here to find out if the image was accepted by the site (fingers crossed!), and if not, why not. I'll also be doing a separate post at the end of the Big Stock Photo project to outline the acceptance of the images to the site, or to correct any errors stopping them from being published in their catalogue.
On evaluating my work on this image, I think the only thing, if anything, that let me down was the dark reflections at the bottom of the block. However, I think my camera skills were excellent, and that this is a strong photo that should have no problem at all getting accepted to BigStockPhoto.com.
My next post will demonstrate how image 2 was edited before being uploaded to BigStockPhoto.com.
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