Water Dress (AMAZING work!) - Possibly NSFW - parcial nudity

[P_fuzz]

This technique is amazing!!!!

I will be following this thread up and close!
...I am pretty happy I found this website! :thu:

[johnm160]

I seem to be a little late to this party could someone please upload the image to yousendit again?

Thanks

[vidyakk9]

Marvelous work done.

[quadupix]

Originally Posted by robmcgrory

Hi

when I first seen that image I instantly loved it. So much I tried my own version.

Photography and retouching by myself.

Retouched with wacom gaphics tablet, cs3 and my beat up old windows laptop.


Still a bit rough around the edges kinda job but I didn't think it was to bad for my first attempted with using water in my work.

Hope you like it.

Rob

I would love to see your before shot and some steps on how you achieved this.
I would really appreciate that.
Thanks

[Misko]

Very nice discussion you have here guys! That campaign really amazed me when I saw it and I am always glad to see it around!
BTW I have just ordered few books mentioned above containing Calculations! Hopefully I will learn something from them. BTW Chops book is available on US Amazon for around 50$!!

[visceraeyes]

hey I actually just found this, can you post up the psd again?

[skindeepdigital]

Hi,
Not as seasoned as most of you, but is there a link or tutorial out there to explain "calculations" to mask water. Have never heard of the term.

Would appreciate getting "schooled" on it.

Thanks,

Ro

[cricket1961]

Calculations are not always a "if you have this and want this, do this" kind of tool.
The settings I gave to mask out that water were tailored to that piece in particular and would need to either be tweaked or tossed depending on other images.

Chris

[sonny7]

Wonderful! Great work! Gets my mind working overtime on the work flow and technique, oh yeah and her body.

[Gt_max]

I found this Tutorial Today...

http://bwebi.com/water-dress.html

[vidyakk9]

Today i checked the site but the tutorials are not opening .Can any one explain how to get these tutorials

[galvaros]

Hi Chris

i have a question regarding your masking method of water. how do you apply this method to water shot against a BLACK background (flash freezed)? i had the following problem which i couldn't yet solve:

essentially what happens in your method for water against a white background is that light water areas become transparent. this preserves the important shadow parts in the drops. against a black background, the black areas should become transparent (which can be done with a mask computed using calculations). unfortunately, i end up with a masked water layer which has no shadows in the drops (since black areas got transparent).

can you point me in the right direction? i would like to shoot the water against a black background since that way i can flash-freeze any action.

thanks and best wishes!

p.s. here's a link to an example image showing water against a black background, found it via google:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/64...53dc50.jpg?v=0

[zhelong]

Hi, I'm new in here, it would be very interesting to follow this topic from the beginning, really a nice topic, and I've learn many things on it. Good job. I never used the calculation before, until I read this, and still learning on it. Thanks for all...

[contemporaneous]

That latest tutorial on page 7 here is nice. Shame the author is too lazy to correct the shadows and highlights cast by the water. But hey, 90% of Photoshoppers are hobbyists and not real artists anyway, so what can ya do.

[ketchupgun]

A six mouth job!

Freudian slip?

[RBurleson]

This is some excellent work, amazed by that work.

[EditB]

I had a quick troll of this thread an didn't see a link to the television commercial for Mattoni that featured an animated water dress...

YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXmsVW8JxhM&fmt=18

HiRes clip: http://motionographer.com/wp-content..._star_h264.mov

The dress was combination of Maya and Realflow.

WIPs : http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?...ndpost&p=53216

B

[MrRyan]

The water dress truly would be a lot of work.
I was redirected to THIS page:
http://www.sandaliagiselebundchen.com.br/
when i clicked on one of the intitial posted links. What's funny is how BAD of a job the clipping on the hair is on the splash page, in comparison to the composition of the water dress! hAHa! They missed a "couple" of spots...

RyRY

[RokcetScientist]

Originally Posted by Ant
It's a shame, Giselle has such a perfect body. Not that I'm complaining..

Originally Posted by JMB

The "problem" is: No matter what, Gisele doesn't get naked in photos, for no money, never =)

If this image is "NSFW" I would immediately go hunt for another job where the boss does have a relaxed gluteus maximus.

[Orchid]

Guys, I'm doing a project for uni that involves me creating an umbrella out of water. How should I go about tackling this? What colour background should I use when I shoot the water, and how would I extract it?

I plan to shoot lots of water and merge the best, possibly using the liquify tool to enhance the shape wherever possible.

It's going to be similar to this shot here http://pr3t3nd3r.deviantart.com/art/...ower-102041552 but not on a black background, unless that's absolutely necessary.

Cheers guys.

[ch33sewiz]

my first thought about it was it uses http://www.realflow.com/plugins.htm

but dont know, you guys have a great calculations embedding water to the subjects. cheers

[Orchid]

I'm having a bit of trouble extracting the water from my shots. I'm using calculations but can't really get it right. Can anyone show me where i'm going wrong? 2 examples of images can be found here:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/...64163167_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/...9c933c4a_b.jpg

If anyone could give them a go and see what they can achieve I'd be infinitely greatful

[st.james]

Once I get time, I definitely need to sit down and learn calculations.. towards what background is it most ideal to shoot water? white might blend good, but you may have more detail towards more darker. Any technical views on this? On the two (great) examples posted here, there is dark background, but skintones are quite bright.

Like I said, I haven`t tried this myself, I just wonderd what is the most ideal

[HelloPiccadilly]

up!)
what's about technical aspect in this question? How small exposure should be used?

[EditB]

just to rehash an old thread with a new look, found this site today using milk. NSFW!
http://razooma.net/projects/milk/

[aglaia]

http://razoomanet.deviantart.com/art/Milk-2-119314014

SOMEONE COULD DO SOMETHING SIMILAR..
WAS TRYING TO GET AN TUTORIAL..BUT CANT FIND IT..IM CRAZY BY DOING THIS EFFECT!

[MrShilts]

That is really cool. Would love to see more.

[cricket1961]

Everyone.

Again, the numbers I gave to extract the water using calculations were pretty specific to the images that were on hand. While the same numbers can potentially give similar results with other images it is not always going to work out right.

The best suggestion I have is to play around with calculations. Don't try to reach an end point for anything. Just keep trying different settings and watching the results. Eventually you will get the hang of it and what to expect.

Calculations isn't something you learn overnight or even over a few months. Its complicated and relatively straight forward at the same time.

The numbers I gave to use for the water took me about 5 minutes to figure out, but that was only because I have been using calculations for 15 years or so. And I didn't have a book to use for reference. I just kept playing around with the tool.

Chris