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Re: the blaxer
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:29 pm
by Deleted User 72
vanzen@rockerboxer.com wrote:justoneoftheguys wrote:
The 2nd image that we are talking about has been "flipped", in a mirror-image sort of way.
See the final drive on the left side of the bike?
I've thought about how this backward image could be made ...
I even tried to match the results with every possible tool in Photostudio
including the edit / orientation / mirror function – no luck.
The only possibility (to my way of thinking)
is if a negative or transparency was used and inadvertantly "flipped" to create the image.
Actually, I have achieved this very result when presenting 35mm slide documentation of my artwork ...
Which will be why, 35mm slides are always imprinted on one side, "this side towards screen".
In "Paint",...."Flip Horizontal"
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:47 pm
by vanzen
Yup, I figured it out while you were posting ... and edited before seeing your reply, Native.
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:54 pm
by Deleted User 287
vanzen@rockerboxer.com wrote:Yup, I figured it out while you were posting ... and edited before seeing your reply, Native.
Damn - so all my research was wasted.
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:58 pm
by Steve in Golden
justoneoftheguys wrote:Chuey wrote:It looks like a body work kit. I like the style but it looks like a stock bike for the most part. Did I miss something?
Chuey
The 2nd image that we are talking about has been "flipped", in a mirror-image sort of way.
See the final drive on the left side of the bike?
That was my first thought too, but the shifter looks to be in the right place...
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:00 pm
by vanzen
Steve in Golden wrote:justoneoftheguys wrote:Chuey wrote:It looks like a body work kit. I like the style but it looks like a stock bike for the most part. Did I miss something?
Chuey
The 2nd image that we are talking about has been "flipped", in a mirror-image sort of way.
See the final drive on the left side of the bike?
That was my first thought too, but the shifter looks to be in the right place...
More research, Rob !
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:03 pm
by Deleted User 287
Steve in Golden wrote:justoneoftheguys wrote:Chuey wrote:It looks like a body work kit. I like the style but it looks like a stock bike for the most part. Did I miss something?
Chuey
The 2nd image that we are talking about has been "flipped", in a mirror-image sort of way.
See the final drive on the left side of the bike?
That was my first thought too, but the shifter looks to be in the right place...
Looks like a (hydraulic) brake lever to me.
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:01 am
by Steve in Golden
justoneoftheguys wrote:Looks like a (hydraulic) brake lever to me.
Yeah, it could be, probly is. Kind of looks like a shifter linkage anyway. You're probably right about how the image was flipped.
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:27 pm
by twist
I've read and reread the posts about "flipping" the photo but I still can't get my head around how simply "flipping" the photo could achieve that result. Wouldn't flipping create a mirror image? How the hell did it flipping get the final drive on the left side?
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:46 pm
by Major Softie
twist wrote:I've read and reread the posts about "flipping" the photo but I still can't get my head around how simply "flipping" the photo could achieve that result. Wouldn't flipping create a mirror image? How the hell did it flipping get the final drive on the left side?
Put one glove on your right hand. Look in a mirror. What hand is the glove on in the reflection?
Look at the "BMW" on the side of the motor. It's mirror image.
Edited because I had looked at the wrong picture at first.
Re: the blaxer
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:52 pm
by Deleted User 287
twist wrote:I've read and reread the posts about "flipping" the photo but I still can't get my head around how simply "flipping" the photo could achieve that result. Wouldn't flipping create a mirror image? How the hell did it flipping get the final drive on the left side?
I dug out an old negative from when my R65 was nearly new.
My negative scanner software has a mirror image selection and produced these results:
But I tried it with a digital image taken this summer using the same Photoshop directions that Native/5 provided and achieved this result:
Electronic wizardry, I suppose.