PHOTOSHOP PICTURES

[ambrola]

The black is very striking indeed, but it's a bit stark and does tend to make the Edison bedplate blend into the background. But it certainly grabs the eye.

I played with Photoshop a while back and decided I liked the effect of using gradiants. Here's one example.

Thanks for the ideas guys. I also played with Gradiants. The big problem is the cut out of the pic itself. Very tough on a Phongraph.

[ambrola]

Looks great on a black background! The only thing that I would recommend is to trace around the edges of everything that touches the black background with a 'Blur' brush set on 'Darken' at about 50%-60%. that will knock the edge down a bit and soften the transition to the black so that it doesn't look so 'cut-out'.

Thanks John,
I will give it a try.

[Lucius1958]

I would agree that the black background tends to make it harder to see certain details…

Bill