REPLACING THE BACKGROUND OF A PHOTO The most common reason for wanting to replace a photograph's background is because it detracts or is distracting from the main object of the photo. Although it is possible to significantly blur any existing background, sometimes it is more desirable to merely replace the entire background. In our example below left, we have changed the background from the original, beautifully composed photo of the boy on the beach, to placing him on a playground and added the zoom effect to the background for drama.
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BELOW: Original Photo Courtesy: Palmer W. Cook, Salisbury, NC, U.S.A. |
BELOW: Original Photo Courtesy: Alexander Abolinsh, Ailakurmi, Madona, Latvia |
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Perhaps your office, school or oranization had scheduled a group photo session and one or more people were unable to attend. We can add that person in, just as if he/she were there for the original photo. The opposite is true as well; have a photo with an old boy/girl friend whom you want removed? We can do that too.
In our first example (below left) we have added the little bunny to the original photo of the growling dogs. |
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BELOW: Original Photo Courtesy: Hervé de Brabandére, Lasne, Brabant, Belgium |
BELOW: Original Photo Courtesy: Chris Turner, Hamilton, New Zealand |
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| In the examples below (the original photo is the first on the left below) we have removed each girl, individually from the photo and where necessary, replaced body parts. | ||||||
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| ABOVE: This is the original photo with three girls. Original Photo Courtesy: Kevin Rohr, Canton, Ohio, U.S.A. BELOW: The original photo after removing girl from the middle and moving girl from right to center. |
ABOVE: The original photo after removing girl on left.
BELOW: The original photo after removing girl on right. |
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CHANGE HAIR AND EYE COLOR |
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ABOVE: Original Photo Courtesy: JoseF ~ Argentina |
ABOVE: Changed hair color to brown/black and eyes to violet blue, adjusted overall photo to cooler colors. | ABOVE: Changed hair color to red and eyes to green, adjusted overall photo to warmer colors. | ABOVE: Changed hair color to grey , adjusted overall photo to summer colors. | |||
DIGITAL FACELIFT, WRINKLES REMOVED |
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| ABOVE: The original photo of heavily wrinkled man.
Original Photo Courtesy: Manu M., Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
ABOVE: This is the photo on the left after digitally removing the wrinkles and tightening the skin while leaving the skin texture in tact which is important for printing to be realistic without ending up with plastic-looking skin. | |||||
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| Composites are the end result ot placing various objects together into a photo to make a visual statement, sensible or not. Our examples below are of the "non-sensical" kind. | ||||||
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Collages tell the story of a particular person, event, or period in time as our example (below left)captures special moments in the little girl's life up to her 2nd birthday, with the center emphasis being placed upon the pregnant mother's belly.
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ABOVE: Original Photo/s Courtesy: Pregnancy2, BabyGirl1,2ndBirthday1, 2ndBirthday2, Surprised, Mother+Child2, Father+Daughter1, HappyGirl2 ~ Benjamin Earwicker, Boise, Idaho, U.S.A. OurSweetAngel ~ Simona Balint, Istanbul, Turkey Victory-SweetGirl ~ Dirk Herman, Konstanz,BW,Germany Playing4 ~ Sarah Nixon, Durham, N.C., U.S.A. MaryRaegan2 ~ Tony Hathcock, Glencoe, AL, U.S.A. |
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LEFT: Digitally 'ghosted' and Super-imposed old man onto the farm photo. Original Photo/s Courtesy: OldRedBarn3 ~ Benjamin Earwicker, Boise, Idaho, U.S.A. SpringinLondon ~ Mee Lin Woon, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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With today's graphic software, Special Effects can be realistically applied to your photos to tell whatever story you want your photograph to convey. Below are just a very few of the Special Effects' services we offer, such as changing a photograph's background, adding or removing a person or object, removing wrinkles, also known as a 'digital facelift'.
Ever wonder what you'd look like with different hair or eye color? Now you can see and without the use of hair products or contac lenses.
Photo Compositing, Collaging and Scrapbooking are terrific ways to combine several photos into a one-page pictoral story of a special moment in time and the great part about digitizing your photos is that they are so easy to share with family by storing onto DVDs.
Our final example of Special Effects is our 'Ghosting' effect.
We hope that you enjoy browsing through our collection of Special Effect Photos and if you have any questions, be sure to send an e-mail.