Dude your Billy kaplan cosplay is awesome! With the camera quality issues do you shoot manual or automatic? The ISO might be set high which increases light sensitivity but decreases photo quality! The editing you did was so great is there a tutorial or anything?
Thank you so much! QAQI switch between manual and auto, but those pictures were taken on auto because I handed the camera to a friend, and I also know how often manual focus doesn’t work out properly in con settings cause everything is always moving and everyone is a bit shaky. It might be the ISO, yeah, I don’t really remember what I put it too, but everything was generally a bit dark so I possibly did put it relatively high. I’m still learning about my camera, I only got it very recently and I don’t really read manuals but prefer to teach stuff to myself by trying (I know, that’s not very clever, but it’s the only way I manage to remember what I learned).As for the edit, wow, thank you?? I’m a 100% Photoshop autodidact, I just kinda go along and see what works out, so it always means a lot to me when people like what I do. I didn’t follow any tutorial, but I used different free brushes from deviantArt.First, I put additional stars on my morphsuit cause they didn’t photograph really well, and I wanted them to really shine. I used single stars and groups of stars from the Ultimate Space Brush Pack by JeffrettaLyn, in white.These are the brushes I used for the Chaos Magic, in different shades of blue and white for the highlights:
TC Magic Spells ~ Moon by TreehouseCharms
Aurora Borealis by redheadstock
Nebular Brushes by StyleMagic
Lost In Space by KeepWaiting
Elven Magic by rL-Brushes
I simply played around with them until I liked the result, adjusted the hue, exposure, and levels to fit in better with the photo, added a drop-shadow at very low opacity, and called it a day. That’s about as exact as I can describe it, sorry. But these brushes are really great, I recommend them! Hope that helps! <3