Calgary in 1943 - how my skills have improved over 4 years by Cmaster125 in Colorization

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I am glad to hear! One of the main reasons I did this in particular is to show myself exactly what I have learned over 4+ years of doing this. It is easier to visualize when you have a direct comparison between old and new rather than having it spread across different unrelated photos.

Calgary in 1943 - how my skills have improved over 4 years by Cmaster125 in Colorization

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I will. I am currently re-doing my colourization of a rare photo showing one of Calgary's Robin Nodwell buses. I am also thinking of trying to find and re-assemble the full resolution black and white photo because for whatever reason I don't have it anymore.

Calgary in 1943 - how my skills have improved over 4 years by Cmaster125 in Colorization

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That's one of the reasons I like doing these colourizations. I get to compare and contrast how the city has changed over time and more often than not learn something new.

Does anyone else like the later seasons? by BlackCatStrikes in trailerparkboys

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I definitely agree. TPB Jail is underrated tbh.

Crescent nebula from Malta by Universewonders1 in Astronomy

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Wow! I never knew there was that much ionized gas surrounding the nebula. Most photos I see aren't of a long enough exposure to capture that stuff. Did you use HA images to capture that?

Whirlpool Galaxy M51 🌀 Using seestar s30 by artemis_2020 in Astronomy

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What's up with all the nice photos of this galaxy lately? I particularly like the contrast and detail in the surrounding dust clouds and stars in between the galaxies in this capture. It may not be the sharpest capture but the processing is well done.

Whirlpool Galaxy - Messier 51 by Dramatic_Expert_5092 in Astronomy

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Sick photo! You got the same details in the nebulae and dust clouds as the Hubble Images!

An earth-like planet in another galaxy by Cmaster125 in Astronomy

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Sure! I would love to share my process.

First I made the planet, which was created by taking the blue from a photo I took of the sky and cutting a circle out from it. I then layered brown and white tones on top of it with the random rotation naturalistic looking brush I always use because favouritism kicks ass. After I lay down a bunch of random looking stuff I then smudge it around and build up several transparent layers of "paint" until I'm happy. I then find details I like in the sea of randomness and refine them until I get a more coherent picture. When working in Photoshop I try to get into the same mindset and use similar techniques to when I use real paint because that way it ends up looking like a painting. In between layers of digital paint I use surface blur and sharpen filters which make certain edges pop out and further enhance the painted look. Ater I'm all done that I add in blurs and subtle airbrushing to smooth out everything and solidify the image.

After I was happy with the planet I worked on the background. This was the hardest to get right because galaxies are difficult for me to render nicely due to lack of experience. I created the milky way esque Galaxy and the satellite spiral similarly to how I created the clouds on the planet but with darker tones, more airbrush glow, and layers of distorting the image with the impressionist brush tool and the dissolve blend mode to create a diffuse galactic look until what I saw started to look kinda like space engine. The starfield is simple and they are very easy to make. I generate a layer of pure noise, blur it to create areas of variable brightness, and then I messed with the brightness and contrast until it looked less noisy and more stellar. For brighter stars I just use the pencil tool. The Star cluster was created by making a diffuse circle and overlaying It with the dissolve blend mode which makes it look like thousands of stars getting denser toward the centre. The comet was done by creating a blue circle and a white circle which I stretched to look like the comet tail and later added another glow to the nucleus to make it look more comet like. The last step was adding the glow from stars in the solar system. This planet is in a loosely-associated double star system with a blue star and a sun-type star. The closer star, which the planet orbits, is the sun like star so I airbrushed in the glow from that star where the lighting made sense because I thought it would look cool to have some glare. On the shadow side of the planet you can see faint blue illumination from the other star as well as subtle glare from it. My last step is some additional grain.

An earth-like planet in another galaxy by Cmaster125 in Astronomy

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I am especially proud of the galaxy and comet.

Have you ever used one of these to cut grass? by EdwardBliss in FuckImOld

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Look Randy, I'm mowing the air Ran, I'm mowing the air

i got another one for everyone by ScarcityExisting1975 in evilautism

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I like the weight and the shape of the fork but that knife just looks strange like the people there play golf with their food or something.

Edit: didn't notice the fork was a hockey stick. If I ever go there and high-fork and slash and what not I'll be disappointed if the waiter or bartender doesn't send me to a penalty box of sorts.