Earth to Renae! Come in Renae!

[venchka]

Renae,

Can you teach me how to do this?




The presentation. Not the fish.

[digitaldude400d]

Looks easy enough in that its a image split in half and each half framed. The one thing that i see that is odd is that the left image is larger than the right and thereby making the two halves of the fishes body not lining up properly.

[KJ Smith]

Are you wanting to split one pic or use two seperate pics ?

[venchka]

I have 2 seperate negatives at the moment. More in the future if I can figure this out. Then maybe do the split one into two halves thing.

[SpeedRacerSlots]

film or digital?
if doing in photoshop, there are some actions that I have seen that once you get your photo where and how you want it, you can run this action (from MCPactions) and select how many frames you want an image to appear in and it does its magic for you and outputs the final image.

[venchka]

Hybrid. Negatives turned into zeros and ones. Ancient version of Photoshop.

Greg-Did you see my post re: batteries @ Walmart?

[kenw]

easiest would be to have the fish as background layer, then create a new layer on top with the frames/mat, etc. then clear/erase the interior of that top layer to expose the fish where you want.

sprinkle with lemon, bake at 350 for 30min, enjoy.

[venchka]

I gave it a shot once. Background: A hundred years of CAD experience. Precision placement is my thing.

Photoshop: Raster based. Precision input? Right. I tried sticking 3 images side by side on a field. They never line up exactly.

[kenw]

the key here Wayne is to avoid having to place them in line as separate pieces of fish. by placing the mat over the full contiguous image, you create the separation without having to align the lower layer; it is still one image.

[venchka]

OK, I see. A single image leaves the new halves aligned. But some image is missing.

What I tried was 3 individual photos aligned in a row horizontally. I couldn't get a frame around each photo either.

I'm hopeless with zeros and ones.

This is as close as I got. A JPEG print file from Lightroom 2.

[carrbowl]

Piece of cake...lets see...let me find a photo....and I will need a couple minutes...

[carrbowl]

Ok...
Wayne....Is this the kind of thing you are looking for??? Note...rough draft...things aren't square and equal!!!

[ka5txl]

Originally Posted by kenw

easiest would be to have the fish as background layer, then create a new layer on top with the frames/mat, etc. then clear/erase the interior of that top layer to expose the fish where you want.

sprinkle with lemon, bake at 350 for 30min, enjoy.

I'd skip the layers and just use a filet knife, a little oil in a cast iron skillet over a campfire

[venchka]

Thanks Renae. I'm thinking in terms of 2-3 inividual photos. Splitting one photo down the middle isn't what I'm after right now.

I guess you will have to show me for real, huh?

[carrbowl]

It's actually really easy...I'll post the way I do it in a little bit...off to be the mom taxi for while...

Ok...I won't post anything since you have another source...if you change your mind, let me know.