Hello My name is Denny Budi Susetyo, I’m Graphic digital Artist based in Malang East Java, Indonesia. My current job is working as freelance graphic designer. Mostly my influences is beautiful woman, fresh and colorfull object. i love experimenting on graphic, watch and learn from another graphic artist. i also love’s doing collaborations with other talented people to improve my skills.
Flyer, Poster, CD album Art , Photo Retouch and Digital Imaging.
CURRENT JOB
WOWMAGZ INDONESIA
Roles : Founder/ Flash Magazine Designer
Years : May 2008 – Present
Location : Malang – Indonesia
WOWMAGZ is Free Downloadable electronic/digital graphic design magazine that supports and the media for designers/creative communities around the world; especially in Indonesia to showcase their ARTwork to global public. Showcasing the greatest Artwork in Digital Art, illustration,Photography , Motion Graphic and more.
TATTOOISTART MAGAZINE
Roles : Magazine Designer / Flash Magazine Designer
Years : April 2010 – Present
Location : London – USA
TattooistArt magazine seeks to bring the tattoo culture together to learn, enjoy, appreciate and inspire. There is so much talent in the tattoo industry today, and more tattoo enthusiasts and collectors than ever before; in countries all around the globe, and in languages as diverse as the tattoo art that they wear
EASY SURF TRIPS ( EST ) MAGAZINE
Roles : Flash Magazine Designer
Years : February 2011 – Present
Location : London – USA
Easy Surf Trips is the web’s newest surf travel company. As a premium supplier for the world’s best surf camps, booking with EST can save you cash on your next surf trip. Let us hook you up and make your next surf trip easy
Dont be hesitate to contact me if you have commision project or do some collaboration.
Big Thanks for your support.
I will always be forever grateful
Best regards,
Denny Budi Susetyo
The first image I selected was a photo of a little girl that we have taken last year in the end of a photo session back in the studio where I work, StudioMe. I chose this image because I really like the expression on her face, she is only 7 years old but was very comfortable in front of the camera.
Right after this I placed the girl’s photo in my composition I selected a photo of an old lady that was taken again in another photo session at StudioMe.
Incredibly the two images matched pretty well one I put one over the other, so all I have to do was to create a good transition between the two faces right below the nose line. This transition was done simply by putting the image of the girl in a layer beneath the old lady layer in which I added a layer mask and hid the layer. Then with a very soft brush I started to make some areas visible, but very smoothly and natural.
In order to make the transition very realistic I made some adjustments using the Liquify filter to move the nose a little bit down on the face of the girl.
After that I did a color adjustment to make the hue of the skin of both photos match. To do that I used some Adjustment Layers such as Curves and Vibrance.
The next step I started to create the mood for the composition, sort of like how I would like to perceive the idea behind the composition. To do that I created a selection to separate the top from the bottom part. For the top part I created this sort of vignette effect to driver the user attention to the face, like the focal point. For the bottom part, I just did some color adjustments to make sure that the girl really looked as if she was underwater.
Step 4
To make the scene more realistic, specially the underwater part, it was necessary to add some light effects. So in this part of the process I looked for an image to create the caustics effect.
In optics, a caustic or caustic network is the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object, or the projection of that envelope of rays on another surface. The caustic is a curve or surface to which each of the light rays is tangent, defining a boundary of an envelope of rays as a curve of concentrated light. Therefore in the image to the right, the caustics can be the patches of light or their bright edges. These shapes often have cusp singularities.
To add some depth I applied a blur to the caustic effect and I also added some blurry air bubbles. Still I thought the image needed even more depth. So I added a layer and applied a render clouds and after that used the Gaussian Blur to make it super blurry, enough to give the idea that the background wasn’t empty.
Now for the underwater part I created a sort of inverted the illumination. To do that I used a Curves Adjustment Layer in which I pulled all the channels up increasing the brightness of the image. I also Inverted the mask to hide this adjustment and then with a very soft brush I started make the layer visible, that way the transition would be much more smooth.
The bubbles in the water made the difference in terms of realism. This part took me more time because I had to do some testing. To make the effect as realistic as possible the bubbles needed to reflect the rest of the image, but a little bit darker. However I didn’t like the result of none of the images I was testing, only after quite a lot of time I found the image I was looking for, with some subtle air bubbles. Even though the image might not be the most coherent in terms of photography and with the composition, in my humble opinion they were the ones that created the best effect. Those little bubbles really give this ideas that they are making the aging process turning the old lady into a child.
Technically speaking, the bubble layers were a layer with a very light background with the bubbles, so I simply inverted it and change the Blend Mode to Screen. In case you don’t know, the Scree mode hides all black pixels of the layer.
Still in this step I selected the lenses of the glasses of the old lady layer and then applied a blueish gradient as if it was reflecting the water. The gradient layer was created on top of the old lady layer and then I applied the Soft Light Blend Mode.
Here the process was almost done, just some fine tunes and little tweaks. I added some bright spots on the water surface, change the color of the old lady eyes to a more blueish tone and applied a Smart Sharpen only in the top part, that way the two parts would match a little better. The last thing I did here was to apply a Photo Filter Adjustment Layer with blue with 10% of Transparency on top all the other layers. That way all layers would sort of get better blended together.
The whole process to create this image took me like 10 hours, however a good amount of this time was just testing different images trying to find the best ones.
I hope you like this case study and that it may help you. Feedback is always appreciated, so feel free to share your opinion with comments and tweets.
Cassio Braga is an art director and digital artist from Candelária, RS, but currently based in Porto Alegre. He is graduated in advertising from ESPM and have already worked for some big Porto Alegre agencies such as Escala and DCS. Currently working at StudioMe.
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Shutter speed: 1000/sec was just enough to freeze the motion of a pour. Adjust ISO and F-stop for correct exposure. Based on your lighting setup.
Pouring into a round glass: This produced a nice back-splash. A wine glass works well.
Avoid a flood: Cover the floor with plastic and use a large container below your set. Otherwise after 50 tries your house/studio will look like it was hit by a tsunami.
Color: Try Different color liquids, you can use food coloring. Or the actual beverage (wine, beer, milk, etc..). If using red wine we recommend diluting it 50/50 with water so the light will penetrate better.
