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Jun 28^th, 2006 at 7:15pm

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Aerial Foundry's F 18 over the Grand Canyon.
This image is composed of 3 seperate images, 1 of the F-18 over the ocean so I could just remove the blue around it.
1 of the F-18 over land for the canopy.
One of the Grand Canyon taken from Google Earth.
Hope you like it.

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Reply #1 - Jun 28^th, 2006 at 11:10pm

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Nice! But I woulda chosen a better Grand Canyon

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Reply #2 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 5:08pm

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Nice! But I woulda chosen a better Grand Canyon

Yer I have to agree, the edit on the F-18 is very impressive though!

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Reply #3 - Jun 29^th, 2006 at 7:02pm

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I like it a lot, it doesn't look like the real canyon but it could be somewhere else, fine effort. I wish I knew how to 'cut out' aircraft quickly, it seems so time consuming...

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Reply #4 - Jun 30^th, 2006 at 12:40am

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I wish I knew how to 'cut out' aircraft quickly, it seems so time consuming...

Yes, it is..........

I absolutely HATE editing "multi angle"(more than 15) aircraft

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Reply #5 - Jul 1^st, 2006 at 7:32am

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nice edit. ive been looking for that particular paint scheme for some time now. the scenery could be better, but excellent blending. well done

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Reply #6 - Jul 1^st, 2006 at 9:14am

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Thanks for the comments,
I know that's not the greatest Grand Canyon, it was from Google Earth, I'm not sure where they get their elevation data. I actually thought it would come out a little better than it did, but oh well, it was an experiment.
As far as cutting out and pasting the aircraft, that was also an experiment. It wasn't as tricky as I thought it might be.
I already had gotten the background pic, so I just skewed the plane to a spot in FS that had similar coloring and took a screenshot so I could use that shot just for the canopy.
Then I skewed over the ocean to get a blue background to be able to cut out the rest of the plane. then it just as simple as using the magic selection tool in Photoshop to select everything blue and delete it, that also deleted the blue in the canopy.
Hence the need for the two screen shots.
I cut out the the canopy of the first shot and pasted it to the canopy of the second shot.
Then I cut and pasted the entire edited aircraft to the background pic and blended the edges.
As far as editing the background, I selected the close hill, and added quiet a bit of motion blur, the I inverted the selection and applied just a little motion blur, to give the illusion of distance. I blurred the background because the camera was focased on the F-18.
I would love to find a GREAT scenery addon of the Grand Canyon.

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Reply #7 - Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 9:19am