laytownking

Hey!

This is my first photo manipulation (and i've been learning photoshop for 35 days now), so please be kind! Worked quite hard on this actually.

Original pics used : Background (stock image) : CLICK HERE

Players (Ronaldinho and Robinho) : CLICK HERE

Final Version : CLICK HERE

Version 2 based on comments/feedback : CLICK HERE

Robinho's 'darker' cause he's supposed to be in the shadows and i added a shadow for ronaldinho.

PS : Please see it in full zoom.

Comments and any level of criticism will be appreciated.

Thanks.

New_at_this

whoa.. hello dude!
hm.. im not good about photo manip.. but arent robinho is a bit big in (size) ?
ah btw.. nice try..
about give a shadow to robinho,, cool, u do take care of the details

Darren

with ronaldinho being further away you should add a little blur to him, because if you think when you take a photo the foreground will be sharper than the background. so therefore if robinho is in focus, ronaldinho wouldnt be.. you could even add an even smaller blur to robinho because the image its self isnt that sharp and the 2 renders stand out

laytownking

"but arent robinho is a bit big in (size) ?"

I thought cause he's in the foreground, make him look a lil bigger, but yeaha he's looking as big as the tree.. Thanks for the suggestion..

Thanks a lot Oneightwo, it really makes sense what you said. I'll be posting a v2 soon.

Thanks for the criticism guys. Much appreciated!

retired_Ainzmac

ROnadihno is good in there except the blur thing oneighttwo mentioned
a shadow of him and the ball would do

but i dont think robihno's leg should be hidden.. and he should be lot smaller
his boots should be darkened more and maybe a shadow of himself like the trees do would help give more liveliness..

laytownking

yeaha, thanks for the critique sangit. I'm working on it. Will post another version in the next 24 hrs.

Thanks.

retired_gulab_2k1

I think that its a good start but for me things dont fit well. Other suggestions will help but I think you should experiemt with adjustment layers over the whole image to help being everything inline colour and sharpness wise

laytownking

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Taking into consideration what FuTure,Amuro^Mushashi, sangit and oneightwo said.. i made another version.

VERSION 2

Thanks for your feedback guys, i think its looking more real now.

retired_gulab_2k1

Yep it deffo looks better one thing I noticed is thatthe cutting on the left side on ronaldinihos shorts is abit wierd. It might have been this way on the original but it dont look right here. Its alot better though and havs a much better feel to it.

The only other thing is robinho is coming from behind the tree so the tree is blocking the light on him as the light is coming from the left. hence the left side of robinho should be darker? at the moment the line between him and the tree is too clear, it should be darker imo.

Sorry for all the crits, it looks good. Just trying to help KUTGW