affinity photo Completing my fanfiction composite - Creating a rain/storm Effect, adding a vehicle

[SolidSnake2003]

Is there any advice on how to improve the manipulation?

[SolidSnake2003]

@v_kyr @iconoclast @carl123 @firstdefence Here is a new preview of the composite using a new AI creation for the woman with the umbrella before I switch the face:

Hope you all like it

[carl123]

Some notes:

1. I like the fact that the dog and the woman seem to be looking in the same direction at something offscreen

2. You seem to have introduced 2 anomalies into the scene (see screenshot below)

3. I think the handbag in the ambulance looks a little out of place

4. After the lady's face swap, I assume you just intend to add the father into the scene to complete it. If so, then that's the point where you need to do the final tweaks and blend everything together.

Looking forward to seeing the final composite

 

 

[SolidSnake2003]

14 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Some notes:

1. I like the fact that the dog and the woman seem to be looking in the same direction at something offscreen

2. You seem to have introduced 2 anomalies into the scene (see screenshot below)

3. I think the handbag in the ambulance looks a little out of place

4. After the lady's face swap, I assume you just intend to add the father into the scene to complete it. If so, then that's the point where you need to do the final tweaks and blend everything together.

Looking forward to seeing the final composite

 

 

@carl123 I have erased the two anomalies that were left over from the initial erasing, and refining the edges a little to make it blend it better. The hand bag was added because its stuff for Georgie at the hospital, and I couldn't get the bag into the hands of either parent without the A.I,s adding weird things like extra hands, and other anomalies. Any advice on how to make it blend better? Yes I am planning on adding the father I may add more to the mother, but just depends on if I can get the outfit right with A.I. Other parts I have to finish is completing the lights on the ambulance, adjust the lighting coming from the policeman's flashlight so that it blends with the paramedics,

 

Another part I'm unsure of if I should add or not is any light rays coming out of either the ambulance and the lighted windows of the house. Kind of like the lighting effects in this composite by Jeff Chapman: https://www.deviantart.com/jeffach/art/Night-of-the-VHS-with-process-video-920695562 as well as this photo composite created by Andre Boto where he created this video on how he did it I would also love to create the rain splattering effect he did as well as the water droplets, but I don't have a tablet, and don't think I could draw them effectively.: 

 

[SolidSnake2003]

@v_kyr @iconoclast @carl123 @firstdefence Here is a new preview with the new face added, and color corrected, and brightness adjusted:

Hope you all like it.

[carl123]

31 minutes ago, SolidSnake2003 said:

The hand bag was added because its stuff for Georgie at the hospital,

If I was Georgie's mum, I would pack his clothes into his rucksack or school bag (as she would if he was going on a trip somewhere).

It may be a bit embarrassing for Georgie to have a handbag in hospital

 

[v_kyr]

The woman's face looks blurred/unsharp and a little bit strange in contrast to the rest of her (hands, coat, umbrella). Probably has to be skewed a little bit more sideways and also to be resharpened (or instead the rest ob the body has to be blurred accordingly to match the face).

[carl123]

She may also have one too many digits on her right hand

[SolidSnake2003]

20 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

The woman's face looks blurred/unsharp and a little bit strange in contrast to the rest of her (hands, coat, umbrella). Probably has to be skewed a little bit more sideways and also to be resharpened (or instead the rest ob the body has to be blurred accordingly to match the face).

Would this image work better if I find a bigger one?

 

[SolidSnake2003]

32 minutes ago, carl123 said:

If I was Georgie's mum, I would pack his clothes into his rucksack or school bag (as she would if he was going on a trip somewhere).

It may be a bit embarrassing for Georgie to have a handbag in hospital

 

 

18 minutes ago, carl123 said:

She may also have one too many digits on her right hand

@v_kyr @carl123 This is the base image I used for the face, its a screenshot from a movie with her that i have:

[v_kyr]

51 minutes ago, SolidSnake2003 said:

Would this image work better if I find a bigger one?

Why don't you try first to alter the image accordingly, instead of looking for something else as a replacement?  AFAI recall and see in this thread, so far every other replacement image changes brought you always into new other problems (...lighning, orientation, ... etc.) and that way you will probably never finish this scene then.

• rucksack2.afphoto

 

BTW what was wrong with the first woman's face (the AI generated one), that looked good to me for this scene? Meaning why swapping faces?

[SolidSnake2003]

11 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Why don't you try first to alter the image accordingly, instead of looking for something else as a replacement?  AFAI recall and see in this thread, so far every other replacement image changes brought you always into new other problems (...lighning, orientation, ... etc.) and that way you will probably never finish this scene then.

• rucksack2.afphoto

 

BTW what was wrong with the first woman's face (the AI generated one), that looked good to me for this scene? Meaning why swapping faces?

@v_kyr Because I picked actors to play the parent characters in the story, and I wanted their faces to be consistent. I'm not planning on illustrating every single scene of the story, this is just the biggest one I have to invent because there is no corresponding scene from either movie to work with. Plus changing the parents actors because there was just a couple of scenes with them in the final cut of the first one, a couple of deleted scenes from the first one, and none in the second to my knowledge.

[SolidSnake2003]

@v_kyr @firstdefence @carl123 @iconoclast Here is a new preview of the composite, I've gotten a new picture for her face from the same movie, but at a better angle and on a cloudy day so it blended better. Plus I added a backpack from one of Jackson's movies:

Hope you all like it.

[v_kyr]

Looks better. - Though I can't help, with the changed face the woman's head looks somehow proportional bigger to the body than before or it really is ...

... maybe it's due to eyes/nose/mouth sizes here which seem to be slightly huger than before and give that visual feeling???

[SolidSnake2003]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

Looks better. - Though I can't help, with the changed face the woman's head looks somehow proportional bigger to the body than before or it really is ...

... maybe it's due to eyes/nose/mouth sizes here which seem to be slightly huger than before and give that visual feeling???

@v_kyr Here is a new preview where I started over on replacing the face, haven't finished all the editing, but just making sure I've got the size right, and using the hair of the new image to help hide things since the hair is the same color:

Hope you like the new version

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, SolidSnake2003 said:

Hope you like the new version

Yes, looks face proportion wise (eyes/nose/mouth) much better.

[SolidSnake2003]

11 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Yes, looks face proportion wise (eyes/nose/mouth) much better.

@v_kyr Here is a new preview of the composite with the face edited in, and added more hair to help hide edges:

Hope you like it

[v_kyr]

Now it's time to get rid of the white shape for the guy to the left.

[carl123]

50 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Now it's time to get rid of the white shape for the guy to the left.

And that annoying extra finger on the umbrella

 

[SolidSnake2003]

21 minutes ago, carl123 said:

And that annoying extra finger on the umbrella

 

How can I get rid of that finger and still keep that she's holding the umbrella?

[v_kyr]

21 minutes ago, SolidSnake2003 said:

How can I get rid of that finger and still keep that she's holding the umbrella?

Just draw over that finger (in case the one is meant I removed) with a brush (pick up the color from the ambulance) and fine tune any left over portions with the healing tool (brush).

[SolidSnake2003]

3 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Now it's time to get rid of the white shape for the guy to the left.

 

2 hours ago, carl123 said:

And that annoying extra finger on the umbrella

 

 

2 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Just draw over that finger (in case the one is meant I removed) with a brush (pick up the color from the ambulance) and fine tune any left over portions with the healing tool (brush).

@v_kyr @carl123 @firstdefence @iconoclast Here is a new preview of the composite where I got rid of the extra finger, got rid of the trapezoid shape, and added a transparent light fixture to the lawn in front of the paramedics, does this work for adding lighting?

Hope you all like this verison

[v_kyr]

The helmet looks strange, has a plant reflection and on the dog the writing next to it has to be removed.

Other than that looks Ok so far to me.

[SolidSnake2003]

14 hours ago, v_kyr said:

The helmet looks strange, has a plant reflection and on the dog the writing next to it has to be removed.

Other than that looks Ok so far to me.

@v_kyr @carl123 @firstdefence @iconoclast Here is a new preview of the composite. I have removed the text from the light stand that is behind the dog, I have also fixed the mask around the police officer with the flashlight who is now the father. I have added light to the light stand, the flashlight, and added lights to the ambulance. I followed the look from a picture from an article on a website:

Hope you all like the new preview.

[firstdefence]

Things are improving, but... The lamp has the wrong perspective and is in the wrong position, the lamp looks like you are looking at it from below.

See a few notes in this image.

I would remove the dog, it's not working as far as I'm concerned, the face on the woman looks too big and it seems out of sorts, it's one of those situations where you can't quite put your finger on it but it looks odd. 

This lamp has better perspective.