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Study Group 5
 Barbara E Miller, FPSA, PPSA










 
Barbara Miller

 

 

July

Title -Cubes

How I did it -This isn’t something I would enter in competition, but done in haste so please treat it strictly as a technique. I spent a half hour or more teaching our CC how to make a cube. One of the members called me a few days after to let me know that he found a cube maker on a web and in a few clicks of the mouse and a matter of minutes the cube was made. As each image is opened it is automatically placed into the cube and doesn't require any resizing. Open PS and then Go to the web and download

http://www.thedom.fr/share/dload.php?action=file&file_id=33&sid=55870c5a9e3c846ba8118ae3e33d1065

When this is downloaded it appears as an action in PS and is named THE DOM CUBE. Click on the arrow and the list of actions appears. Highlight MAKE and go down to the bottom to the arrow that is PLAY. Click. What appears is your folder list of images. (Mine is Bs Pix). From here select any image regardless of size or dpi. Behind your listing of images you will see a new file with a transparent BG. The image you have selected will appear in the top of the cube. Click on a 2nd image from your file and click on play and it will appear on the left side of the cube. Ditto on the 3rd image and voila! you have a cube. From here your imagination may run rampant. In this instance the final cube was saved and dragged to a BG from my file. A mask was added to remove the white BG of the cube. The cube was then copied, rotated and the opacity reduced in the copies.


 


 

 

 

COMMENTS:
 
Milan Sedio

Barbara, this is an interesting bit of creativity. I like the color selection. The image speaks a dichotomy, showing swirling, active, tornado like winds/clouds, but with bright sunny warm summer day clouds. The placement of the cubes is a bit awkward to me. I would move the center cube down and to the left a bit and then move the smaller cube in the upper left a bit more to the right. This to me would express a capture of the cubes by the swirling rotating wind. I enjoy seeing this image. Thanks for the “Action” I will look at this carefully.




Mike Lillis

 
T W Woodruff Very well done I like the three cubes and the colors work very well with the image.
John Yurchak The cubes are well placed here. I am just not happy with all the cir cles of B/G and the bottom to me just doesn't go with the cubes. I guess i am one who does not care for all this in as photo.
Nick Muskovac

This is a fun image; I used Andromeda 3D for the past 10 years to make 3D cubes. It also makes spheres. I downloaded the Dom Cube action and it works quite well. Thanks; You know that I like this kind of stuff. It looks like you still use KPT Tiles filter for the base of your foreground.
Minnie Travis

Thanks for the info on the download of cubes. In the past I have made cubes, but not as successfully as yours and not as easy as the download. The BG is distracting from the elements of the image that I like (the cubes and the "floor"). Maybe a solid or a sky with clouds would work.

Member Bio
Barbara E. Miller FPSA PPSA EFIAP - Biography

Born in Folkestone, England, married to my beloved Dale and have two daughters and two granddaughters all of whom are so precious to us.

Director EID Study Groups; Chairman Tropical Image Electronic Imaging Exhibition;  Member of the Board of Directors Boynton Beach Camera Club. Past president of Delray Camera Club and many offices in the club. Past Chairman of Everglades Chapter of PSA; Past Chairman of Travelette and Travel set Competition PSA; Past Vice Chair of Services Photo Travel division PSA; Past Chairman of Sunshine Photo Travel Salon. Former PSA Region Director, Region 8.

Stars:
Galaxy 1 Colour slides: 4 Stars Nature slides: 4 Stars Photo Travel slides: 3 Stars PJ slides: 2 Stars Small colour prints: 2 Stars EID

Equipment:
Canon XTI Rebel with 28-135 IS, 75-300 IS lens;100 macro lens; Nikon N-90,105mm macro 

Computer:
Dell Vista
Viewsonic 19" LCD monitor
Canon i900printer 
HP ScanJet 3670

Software:
Adobe Photoshop CS3; Kai's Power Tools; Eye candy; Extensis Portfolio 3.0; Microsoft Vista

 

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