What in the world does bowling have to do with color retouching, photo composition, and prepress production?
Widen employees love bowling... leagues, parties or just for fun. Most of the cats and kittens here at Widen love spinning the apple down the alley. Believe it or not some of them are pretty good at it too. So this blog is dedicated to all of my bowling buddies out there, you know who you are.
A really good friend of mine and a wonderful photographer, Chris Pan Abby, has graciously given me permission to use her photo of Marilyn, a beautiful pink bowling ball.
Create Photo Compositions for Premedia
I got to thinking about all those bowling ball manufactures out there like, 900 Global, Banger, Brunswick, Columbia300, Dynothane, Ebonite, Hammer, Lane #1, Legends, Roto-Grip, Storm, Track, and Visionary to name a few. They create awesome graphics for bowling balls. So I thought I would give it a go in photoshop and add some special touches.
The Steps
First thing I did was clean up the ball and put the engraved graphics on their own layer. Now its time for a background, I'm thinking a beautiful sky and an old school BOWL sign. I could go out and scour the country side for the prefect shot, but who has time for that? Instead I'l go to my favorite stock photo site stock.xchng. If you haven't heard of stock.xchng click the link above and go there now. Its a FREE stock photo site. I searched and found the perfect shot by Sasha Davas from Australia.
Now its time to take the 2 photos and make them into one smooth rollin graphic.
The tail was added using a radial blur method, similar to the one I used to create light rays in a previous blog. Then I transformed the tail warpping it until it looked like a nice swoop form the sky. After lots of masking and fading I was able to achieve a comet like tail for my bowling ball. Now its time for a little fun by adding different graphics to the ball...
Hope you enjoyed this post I sure I had fun creating this image!
See you at the lanes!
-Joy
Widen employees love bowling... leagues, parties or just for fun. Most of the cats and kittens here at Widen love spinning the apple down the alley. Believe it or not some of them are pretty good at it too. So this blog is dedicated to all of my bowling buddies out there, you know who you are.
A really good friend of mine and a wonderful photographer, Chris Pan Abby, has graciously given me permission to use her photo of Marilyn, a beautiful pink bowling ball.
Create Photo Compositions for Premedia
I got to thinking about all those bowling ball manufactures out there like, 900 Global, Banger, Brunswick, Columbia300, Dynothane, Ebonite, Hammer, Lane #1, Legends, Roto-Grip, Storm, Track, and Visionary to name a few. They create awesome graphics for bowling balls. So I thought I would give it a go in photoshop and add some special touches.
The Steps
First thing I did was clean up the ball and put the engraved graphics on their own layer. Now its time for a background, I'm thinking a beautiful sky and an old school BOWL sign. I could go out and scour the country side for the prefect shot, but who has time for that? Instead I'l go to my favorite stock photo site stock.xchng. If you haven't heard of stock.xchng click the link above and go there now. Its a FREE stock photo site. I searched and found the perfect shot by Sasha Davas from Australia.
Now its time to take the 2 photos and make them into one smooth rollin graphic.
The tail was added using a radial blur method, similar to the one I used to create light rays in a previous blog. Then I transformed the tail warpping it until it looked like a nice swoop form the sky. After lots of masking and fading I was able to achieve a comet like tail for my bowling ball. Now its time for a little fun by adding different graphics to the ball...
Hope you enjoyed this post I sure I had fun creating this image!
See you at the lanes!
-Joy
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