In this tutorial, I will be showing you a simple and fast way to make the glowing neon text in Photoshop, all by only applying layer styles to text. This effect is meant to emulate those popular neon signs and window fixtures you see a lot in bars and such. So let’s get started then. Open up Photoshop and start a new document (the shortcut for this is Ctrl + N), the image size is depending on how big your text is going to be and how much of is there is. For the sake of this tutorial, I will be using 400×150 with a black background, if your background is white just use the paint bucket tool to change it to black. Now take your text tool and write out some text that you want to make neon, you can use any font although some will work better than others. The font I used was times new roman bold italic, and I scaled the size up as much as I could. A font with rounded edges would work the best, but I wanted to show the effect on a font that everyone has. Once your text is written out, right-click on the text layer on your layers window and select blending options. Select drop shadow, and set the color to the color of your neon you want. Reduce the opacity to 50%, set the distance to 6 px, the spread to 14 px, and the size to 8 px. Move down to the next option which is an inner shadow, set the blending mode to normal and set the color to a darker shade of the color you used for the drop shadow and reduce the opacity to 40%. Then set the distance, choke and size all to 8 px. Under that select outer glow, and put the opacity up to 100%. Then set the glow color to the color you used for the inner shadow and increase the element size to 16 px. Select inner glow and set the blend mode to normal and reduce the opacity to 25%. Set the glow color to the color you used for your drop shadow. Then set the technique to precise and increase the size to 13 px or so. Now select bevel and emboss, set the style to stroke emboss and set the size to 2 px. Increase the highlight opacity to 100% and set the shadow color to the color used for inner glow and drop shadow then reduce the opacity to 25%. Move down one spot to satin, and set the color to the color used previously and set the opacity at 50%. Then set the distance to 11 px and the size to 14 px. Finally, select stroke. Then set the size to 2 px and the position to inside. Then for the fill type, we want to use a gradient, make a gradient that is a using one of the previous colors and set that color at 0% and 100% on the gradient and then put white at the 50% mark. echo $variable;The post Creating Glowing Neon Text in Photoshop appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger Creating Glowing Neon Text in Photoshop
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Here’s a suggestion: Why don’t we take a page from Goldilocks and the Three Bears and learn successful editing by processing our images three times to create the “not too hot, not too cold, but ahh, this is just right” version of our images. For anyone growing up in suburbia, taking Little Red Riding Hood or Hansel & Gretel too literally may not seem relevant; but as an adult, the more images I process, the more the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears rings true. If Goldilocks used Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, she would process her images at least three times to _ nd the “just-right” version. I can hear her saying, “This image is too _ at, this image is too contrasty, and this image is just right.” Using the Goldilocks image-editing method of processing your images several times will result in more interpretations and discoveries as you explore and wander off the beaten path. The Goldilocks method Using the Goldilocks method to create the just-right image requires you to process the image at least twice in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom and then create additional interpretations in Photoshop. I call the first version “natural” and use it to render the scene as I remember it with either Camera Raw or as in this example, Lightroom, with white balance, exposure, and optical enhancements, such as input sharpening and chromatic aberration removal. Because of the late afternoon/early evening winter light, white balancing the image on the white stripes of the created the beautiful blue sky. The long exposures allowed the American to portray the cool evening breeze while framing the Empire State Building. This gave me the inspiration to continue experimenting and exploring with Photoshop to combine variations of the “natural” and the “interpreted” versions to create the image (bottom of the page). This image, in my opinion, is “just right,” as it best portrays the motion, light, and layers of the New York skyline at dusk. As a teacher, I’m always trying to create relevant and exciting homework assignments that promote learning and experimentation. Using the Goldilocks method encourages students to push themselves and not simply the assignment with what they think the instructor wants to see. For each assignment, students have to produce multiple interpretations, which in turn persuades them to explore a contemporary aesthetic and develop a look and style they’ll call their own. The ower image series shows the work of HeaYeon Yoon, who is beginning to explore the technical and aesthetic methodology of her graduate thesis work. The initial image is as the camera captured it. For the second image, HeaYeon used Lightroom to correct the white balance and remove lens vignetting and dust. In the _ nal image, she opened up the shadows of the stems ever so delicately. echo $variable;The post Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Fairytale Images appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Fairytale Images Many of you are too old to remember the Che Guevarra and “raised fist” anti-war or revolutionary posters. There were lots more of that, all using the silk screen look popular at the time. In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to create a silk screen type image out of your photograph, similar to kind of pop art Andy Warhol popularized in the 1960s. Warhol, the Pope of Pop Culture produced silk screen paintings of subjects ranging from Cambell soup can to Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. Step 1 Open an appropriate file. Choose an image that is contrasty, to begin with. Step 2 Knock out the background. You can use any technique that you know to extract the image from the background. In this example, I chose the filter “Extract.” Step 3 Posterize the image. If the image is contrasty to begin with, you can use “Threshold” instead. In this example, I found it necessary to first posterize the image. Choose ‘Image > Adjustments > Posterize.’ Step 4 Desaturate the image. The next step is to convert the image into black and white without turning the image to Grayscale. To accomplish this, I used the ‘Desaturate’ command. Choose ‘Image > Adjustments > Desaturate’. Step 5 Increase the Contrast. The desaturated image is not contrasty enough so I applied the ‘Levels’ command. Choose ‘Image > Adjustments > Levels.’ Move the ‘White’ slider to remove the other details, leaving only enough to show the essential art of the face. Step 6 Create the Canvas. Next, create a new document that will become the canvas for the artwork. Go to ‘File > New..’ on the ‘Preset’ drop down the list of the ‘New Document’ dialog box, choose the open document. This way, the canvas will be proportionate to the image. Step 7 Expand the Canvas. Expand the canvas so it can accommodate four copies of the image side by side. Go to ‘Image > Canvas Size.’ In the Canvas Size dialog box, choose 100% for both Width and Height. Make sure that the Anchor is in the middle and the Background color for the Canvas extension is white. Step 8 Divide the canvas into four equal parts. Make sure that the rulers are visible. If not, press Command-R (Mac) or Control-R (Windows). Set the unit of measurement of the rulers to Percent. To do this, choose ‘Photoshop > Preferences’ (Mac) or ‘Edit > Preferences’ (Windows). In the Preferences dialog box, choose Units and Rulers and for Rulers under Units choose Percent. If you keep changing the unit of measurement a lot, you can just Control-click (Mac) or right-click (Windows) on the ruler to bring out the options. Once the rulers are set, drag out vertical and horizontal guides to the middle of the canvas, dividing it into four equal parts. Step 9 Draw a marquee in the first quadrant. Make sure that ‘Snap to Guides’ is turned on to make an accurate rectangular selection. Choose ‘View > Snap To >Guides.’ Using the Rectangular marquee tool, draw a marquee in the first quadrant. Step 10 Copy and paste the image into the new canvas. Go back to the document containing the image. Choose ‘Select > All.’ Then choose ‘Edit > Copy.’ Back in the document containing the new canvas choose ‘Edit > Paste into.’ The image of the will automatically be pasted into the first quadrant. Step 11 Duplicate the layer three times. Since you are going to create four version of the image, duplicate the layer three times. Use the guide as you drag the duplicates into position. Step 12 Colorize the Background. Next, you will colorize the background.
Step 13 Show the top layers. Go to the Layers palette and click on the eye icon next to the top four layers to show (unhide) them again. Step 14 Load the selection. Go to the Select menu and choose Load Selection. In the Load Selection dialog box, choose Layer 1 Transparency as the Channel. This will automatically create a marquee around the image of in the first layer. Step 15 Create a fill layer. While the first layer is selected, click on the Create new fill or adjustment layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette. Choose Solid Color. Choose a color from the Pick a solid color box. Because the image was selected, the Solid Color fill layer automatically created a mask. So the only content of the first layer was colorized. Step 16 Change the blending Mode. To complete the colorization of the image, change the blending mode of the Solid Color fill layer to Multiply. The color will blend with the underlying layer. The next step is to erase the color on the face and leaving only the shirt with colors. Step 17 Repeat the process. To complete the artwork, repeat Steps 14 to 16 on the remaining layers and you’re done! echo $variable;The post Photoshop Tutorial: Photo Silk Screen Effect appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger Photoshop Tutorial: Photo Silk Screen Effect One of the creative techniques a photographer uses to focus attention on his subject is the depth of field. Using one or two or all three of the controls available for determining the depth of field, he can make the subject pop out against a blurred background or make everything sharp in the picture. For instance, to take the picture of a woman seated on the steps of a Hindu temple in Singapore, use an opening of f/5.6 and a lens with focal length of 52mm (78mm in the 35mm format). Despite the moderately wide aperture, the busy background still comes off relatively sharp. Zooming to a telephoto setting would have blurred the background but you just wanted to capture the colorful dress of the woman and did not want to tax the patience of the model, so took only one shot, knowing that you could adjust the depth of field in the digital darkroom using Photoshop’s Lens Blur filter! The Lens Blur filter, if my memory serves me right, was introduced in version 7. It is a more effective filter than the Gaussian Blur in mimicking the blurriness that the lens creates when one uses a wide opening. Here are the steps to blur the background using the Lens Blur filter. Step 1 Opening the image in Photoshop, do some tonal and color adjustments (as you always should before doing any creative editing). Step 2 The key to using the Lens Blur filter is the alpha channel. In the Channels palette, create a mask (completely black) covering the woman and the pillar immediately behind her. Then using a magic wand, select the mask and then invert it so you could apply a gradient mask on the background. Using a gradient mask made the blurring of the background more gradual, with the far end of the picture the most blurred. Step 3 In the Lens Blur dialog box, load Alpha 1, as the Source in the Depth Map field. Automatically, the filter blurs the background. Step 4 Adjust the intensity of blurriness by moving the radius slider to 66. Step 5 Still in the Lens Blur dialog box, enter an Amount of 2 in the Noise field, set Distribution to Uniform and click on Monochromatic. These settings introduced the appropriate amount of noise to make the blurred part of the image look as rough as the untouched portion of the image. By doing this, you restore the texture that was smoothened out when applied the Lens Blur on the background. Step 6 To heighten the focus on the woman, increase the overall contrast of the image by darkening the background. So in the Channels palette, load Alpha 1 as a selection. Step 7 With the selection loaded, copy the Background Layer into another layer, and set the Blend Mode of the new layer to Multiply. Adjust the Opacity of the new layer to achieve the amount of darkening that you want. Check the Before and After images to see the effect of blurring and darkening on the background. echo $variable;The post Photoshop Tutorial: Controlling Depth of Field in Photoshop appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger Photoshop Tutorial: Controlling Depth of Field in Photoshop There’s been a lot of talk in the fashion and publishing industry about some recent Photoshop images that have come to light, and it’s very concerning for both women, and yes – men, too. Women in today’s society already struggle with self-esteem and are feed lots of conflicting information regarding sex, sexuality, and how they are supposed to look. Most guys will take a look at a magazine such as Maxim or Playboy and want a woman that looks like the woman on the cover that they can take to the bedroom, unwrap, and enjoy. The reality is very different as many times the women on those covers do not even look in real life like they do after they’ve been Photoshopped. Women will look at them with envy, and many times not realize they the models would even love to look like the bikini-clad dream girl splashed on the pages of Maxim. A couple of years ago I dated a woman that was a model in Europe, and she was absolutely gorgeous. She showed me a number of her pictures, and what was amazing is the amount of airbrushing and PhotoShop work they had done to her face, legs, hips, and boobs. You would think a woman that was paid to show her body would love the way she looked, but that could not be further from the truth. Instead, she worked out three hours a day trying to look good enough for the next shoot, so they would not have to touch up her photos as she found it insulting, and she felt unattractive. It’s simply not possible for women to reach the level of outer beauty that the covers of these publications reflect, as the covers are not from “real” pictures. They’re doctored. This also has an impact on the sex lives of both men and women. Women compare themselves to the models and do not feel beautiful enough, meanwhile, men want to find that stunning beauty and are constantly comparing the women in their life with the models they see. Men are attracted to shiny objects. Trust me. The problem is we’ve allowed a level of beauty to be created that cannot be attained, and both women and men are suffering because of it. It’s simply not necessary. We live in a world full of stunningly beautiful people, so why is it so necessary to make them into something they are not? It’s hurting women, destroying their self-esteem, and makes young women feel they can never be “pretty enough”. It’s time we decide to let real beauty shine through, and let people feel good about who they really are. echo $variable;The post Has Photoshopping Models Gone Too Far? I Think So appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger Has Photoshopping Models Gone Too Far? I Think So Do you own Adobe Photoshop? Have you ever seen pictures of hearts or stars and ever wondered how people created them? Have no worries, it’s not difficult at all. It’s actually quite easy, and I will explain how to do so. During this tutorial, we will be using Adobe Photoshop CS2. Adobe is the best Graphics Program to design in. I highly recommend it to anyone who does not have it. First, you will need to open up a new blank document. You can make the size any size that you want. I am using a 200 x 200 pixels white document. Once you have the new document opened you will want to select a color you want to use. For this tutorial, I will be using the color red. After you select the perfect color that fits your needs, go to the Custom Shapes tool (Picture 1). After you click it, a toolbar will appear at the top. You will need to click the drop down arrow and search for your heart or any other shape you’d like to use (Picture 2). After you have selected the shape that you’d like to use, go to your blank document and click it and the shape will start to appear once you move it on the document. Stretch out the shape until it fits your taste (Picture 3). Now you have your heart. Looks pretty cool, huh? Well, we will now make it look even prettier by adding special effects to the heart. Go to your Layers Palette and right click and select Blending Options. A box will pop up on your screen. Now you want to click Stroke, and change the color to the same color as the heart, Change the size to 1 px (Picture 4). Check off Bevel and Emboss and change the style to Outer Bevel, Size 2, and Color will be the same color as the heart you used (Picture 5). Inner Glow is next. Make sure you check that off and change the color to White, Change source to Center, and size to 35 (Picture 6). Check off Drop Shadow and change the color to the same color as the heart, and the Distance to 2 px (Picture 7). Now you are all done with the Blending Effects to your custom shape (Picture 8). You can play around with the Blending Options and find something that fits your style. Don’t be afraid to try new things. echo $variable;The post How to Use Custom Shapes Tools in Adobe Photoshop CS2 appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger How to Use Custom Shapes Tools in Adobe Photoshop CS2 If you know how to operate a mouse, you are just a few simple clicks away from getting started with Adobe Photoshop CS2. Now, while these simple tips are for CS2, be aware that the release of CS3 is already in progress, with Webinars taking place across the Internet to teach users about new features. Photoshop CS2 is a software program used to manage and edit photographs and it can also be used to create graphics, although Illustrator CS2 is more readily used for that purpose. Photoshop CS2 is used in the graphics industry, newspaper and magazine industries and high school digital design classes for the production of such products as high school yearbooks, newspapers, and literary magazines. First and foremost, you must have photos saved to your computer. If you have a hard copy of a photo, scan it and save it as a .jpg to whatever folder you want. If you have a digital camera, just plug in your USB cord and turn the camera on. You should be able to follow the prompts from there (you DO NOT have to install the camera software on the computer in order to download). Before reading any further, please note that keyboard commands mentioned are for PC users. Mac users can use Cmnd+Option instead of Ctrl+Alt. Obviously, you now want to launch Photoshop from your Start menu or your desktop, wherever you have the program installed. To open a photo in Photoshop, just click File à Open using your mouse or hold down Ctrl + O on your keyboard and then release. Now you must navigate to wherever you saved the photo, highlight the file name using your mouse and click Open. Let’s say you want to resize the image. All you have to do is hold down Ctrl+Alt+I on your keyboard and then release. An image size screen will pop up in which you can change the image size using pixels, percent or even inches. You can select any of those options but just keep in mind that the image size will change proportionally. You’ll notice that when you type in a new number for width, it automatically changes height. If it looks like the photo color is off a bit, just go to Image à Adjust Levels à Auto Adjust. Unless you are very familiar with the terms CMYK or RGB, only use Auto Levels to adjust. Once the Auto Levels dialog box pops up, just click okay and it should automatically adjust your colors so they are at optimal performance in your photo. Do not adjust your photo colors manually. Keep in mind that any time you don’t like the result of a command, you can press Ctrl+Z to undo it. PhotoshopCS2 also has two cool features called the Spot Healing Brush and the Red Eye Tool. There’s a toolbar that pops up typically on the left side of your work area in Photoshop that has two columns of tools in it. Look for the one that looks like an eye and clicks on it and you will see a fly-out menu with approximately four different options. Scroll down and click on the Red Eye Tool. Then, at the top of your screen, start with the Darken Amount set at 50%. The tool does just what it sounds like – it reduces the red-eye in your photos. Make sure to zoom in so you can see the eyes clearly and then click on the red part and it should automatically fix it. If it’s too dark (for instance, it makes brown eyes black), just key in Ctrl+Z and then change the Darken Amount to a lower number and repeat the process. The Spot Healing Brush can be found under the eye as well and this tool can help to smooth out unsightly blemishes, moles, and freckles. Once you click on the brush, you will need to select a brush size at the top of your screen. You want the brush size to be comparable to the area you are healing – small mole, small brush. Then, you want to make sure your Mode is set to normal and the Type is set to Proximity Match. Both of these can also be found at the top of your screen, running along the bottom of your main menus. Then it’s as simple as clicking on the top of whatever it is you want to heal. Those are the basics of getting started with Photoshop CS2 but if you’re ever interested in learning more, I would recommend visiting http://ift.tt/2q8CLJA, as this is the National Association for Photoshop Users home page. It has some great features that will allow you to read articles, watch Photoshop television or watch short, video tutorials on a variety of features. After all, that’s where I go to learn new tricks to teach to my high school students! echo $variable;The post A Few Simple Tips on Photoshop CS2 Basics appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger A Few Simple Tips on Photoshop CS2 Basics 3in1 Tutorial, Learn How to Use Batches and Actions to Apply a WatermarkThis is one of my most recent topics that I worked on, and I have a folder of designed photos that I really need to personalize, I need this photos to be secured from anyone how to want to use it without my permission, so what I have to do now is to add a watermark to this photos, this way I’ll be sure anyone how to take this photos will not use it or save without any watermark applied to it. It’s really a pretty good tutorial, you will learn how to apply watermarks, not only watermarks you will learn how to use actions and batches as well, What is Batches? In our topic we will apply a watermark to a folder of photos contain 3 designed photos, these 3 photos is a collection of photos with different size and different resolution. We will perform our task in 3 parts, Let’s start our tutorial: FIRST PART “Design a watermark”: – First I will open a new file, this time I will need a very large size just to make sure that any photo I use is less or equal this size of watermark logo, so I’ll be sure that it will not exceed any photo size I worked on. – So this new file for the watermark will be different from one to anther, In my case, I know that my designs will not exceed 3000px height or width, so I will set this new watermark design to 3000*3000 pixels, and 300 pixels/inch resolution. – Now you can add your watermark, it can be a text, logo or just a shape. – In my case I will write my name with a big font to cover a large area, using the type tool; Font: Tahoma Size: 300px. Bold and centered. – Then I will add a Copyright shape using the custom shape tool, – Now I will make sure that my background is transparent, so I will remove the background layer from the layer pallet, so now there is only tow layers, one text layer with my name on it, the second with the copyright shape. – What we will do now is to add a little layer style to our layers. – With the Text Layer active; 1- Add a new layer style by clicking on the add new layer style Icon in your layers pallet, then chose Blending options. In Blinding options; Leave all setting, I’ll change only the Fill Opacity option from 100 to 20. 2-In Blending options shoes Bevel and Emboss style and just add more depth to the text, so in the depth option I’ll add 150% to the depth of my text “you can add your special style to your text”. 3-Hit Ok – With the Shape Layer active; 1- Add a new layer style by clicking on the add new layer style Icon in your layers pallet, then chose Blending options. In Blinding options; Leave all setting, I’ll change only the Fill Opacity option from 100 to 0. 2-In Blending options shoes Bevel and Emboss style and just add more depth to the text, so in the depth option I’ll add 600% to the depth of my text “you can add your special style to your text”. 3-Hit Ok The watermark is now ready to apply to any photo, so what we have to do now is to save this watermark “PSD” file in a specific place on your hard drive, and make sure that this PSD file is always at the same location. I’ll save it as watermark.psd See the attached Image for this part. SECOND PART “Recording the action”: In your Actions Pallet chose the default Action set, then hit a new Action Icon, Name it as you want, I’ll name it Watermark Then Hit RECORD; – Now after opening a new photo, as you will see the action is already start recording, so you will find an open step in the new watermark action, Go To File>Place , Then select the watermark we’ve done in the last part. Then hit Place. You saw the magic !! after placing the PSD file into our photo, the Photoshop Place command automatically sizes, fits, centuries and place any object in the exact same center of your image or file no matter what size your image was, this is a lot easier than copy and pasting… – Now all you have to do is submit the Placing command by clicking Check mart “Commit transform bottom” in the Place bar ” as seen in attached photo” . – Now in your layer Pallet, you will find 2 layers, the image layer, and the watermark layer, so all we have to do is to flatten this layers into one layer. – Save your watermarked Image any place you want, Go to file>Save As then save your photo. – Now click on the Stop recording bottom in the actions pallet to stop recording your new Action. As you will see in the attached image and on your new action, we have our open step, the place watermark step, flatten all layers and save the image, so we have our new watermark action ready to use in our next and last part. THIRD PART “Batch”: Go To File >> AUTOMATE >> Batch. In the new Batch dialog box; – In Play section shoe set >> then select default Actions – In Actions List, Select our new watermark action we’ve done earlier. – In the source Section, Click Choose then select your image Folder you want to apply this action on. – Here is what’s important, you need to select Override Action “Open” Command, to override all open commands that have already been made in our watermark action. – Then now in Destination section, Select Folder from the destination list. – Click Choose and select your destination folder. – Again we will override the save as command, to override it with the new location we choose for the new watermarked images, So – You have another option you may choose like rename all new Images, using a serial number or turn on the Mac or Widows compatibility. See attached Image for this Part. NOW HIT OK , AND LET THE MAGIC BEGIN What you will see is that the Photoshop automatically open every image in your source folder one by one, apply the watermark action on it, then save in on your new destination folder. I think it’s a little bit hard at first, but If you try to do it once you will not need to do all this work again. The post Photoshop Cs2 Tutorial: How to Make and Apply Watermarks appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger Photoshop Cs2 Tutorial: How to Make and Apply Watermarks Today you are going to learn how to take an ordinary photo and sharpen it up very easily and effectively using the High Pass Filter in Photoshop. The high pass filter is one of those filters that are commonly overlooked, but it has a great potential, and if used correctly, can make your photos go from looking good to looking great. You will get that extra something when adding the high pass filter. So, let’s get started and I will show you how to apply the high pass filter in Photoshop to sharpen an image. Step One. The first thing that you need to do is to open an image that you would like to apply the high pass filter too. This can be any photo, but I like to choose one that I close up to the object of interest so that I can get the most out of this filter. Step Two. Now you need to duplicate your background layer to a new layer. You can do this easily by holding down Ctrl on the keyboard and hit J. This will duplicate your image exactly to a new layer. This is to keep your original intact in case you need to go back and change something. Step Three. Now, on your new layer, go to Filter, down to other, and choose High Pass. This will bring up the High Pass window. You need to set it so that the radius is set to 5.0 pixels. You will notice that your image now looks really bad. The high pass filter works like an EQ on your image and brings down the lows, and boosts the highs to make the image sharper. Don’t worry because we are getting ready to fix the look of your image next. Step Four. There really isn’t much left to do to get your image sharper. You need to go to your blending options for your layer (found above the layers window) and change the blending mode to Overlay. This will make your image reappear and you will have a new image that is a lot sharper than the original. This has been a really quick and easy way to sharpen an image with the high pass filter in Photoshop. I hope that you found what you needed to perform your task easily. Sharpening an image can be a hard task to perform if you don’t know how to do it correctly. The high pass filter is something that you can start out with to see if you can get better results out of your image. I usually find that the high pass filter is all that I need to sharpen my images. echo $variable;The post Sharpen an Image with the High Pass Filter in Photoshop appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger Sharpen an Image with the High Pass Filter in Photoshop I am going to show you how to create a certain vertical signature I made during my free time for Kimberly. It’s not that super amazing or highly detailed so this tutorial is targeted mainly for beginners to moderate designers. First create a new canvas, 306×400 pixels. Then grab a stock or a background and a render and place it within your canvas. Resize it if you wish. I found a background and a render for this signature. Here is what I have so far. I decided to change a couple things like the hair so I created a new layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N) and using a soft reddish brush, I brush the hair then set the layer option to “soft light.” Remember test out the other layer options and choose whichever one you like. I then created a new layer and applied the soft reddish brush to the gold looking ribbon on her dress and set the layer option to “soft light” as well. I created one more layer and used a soft white brush to brush over the white part of the dress. Do not abuse it, though. This is what I have so far. Next, I went on with a new layer and applied a soft green brush on the grass which in my case was near the bottom portion of the signature. I created a new layer again and applied a soft blue brush on the water. I created another layer again and used a soft red brush to brush over the tree that’s right above the girl’s hair. All three of these layers were set to “soft light.” If you are wondering why I decide to do each one on separate layers rather than just doing them all on one layer, it’s because I want to be able to go back and redo it without redoing the entire thing. Just a preference. Anyways, this is what I have so far. Then I created a new layer and filled it with a gray color and added a sky stock or image over it but erased the majority of that sky image except for the top and the bottom portion of the canvas and set the layer option to “multiply.” I then created a new layer and placed a cut-out or render image of a castle and placed it near the mid to the top portion of the canvas and rescaled the image. I created a new layer and used a soft gray brush to brush over the mid to top portion to make it blend in a bit better with the signature and set that layer to “multiply.” I also added some leaves using the leave brush near the bottom of the signature and around her dress. This is what I have so far. Next, I created a new layer and used a dark red soft brush to brush the sides of the bridge, the castle, and the bottom portion of the signature and set the layer to “soft light.” I then went to Layer near the top to New Adjustment Layer to Gradient Map and applied a dark red to white and an another gradient map going from black to white and setting both layers to “luminosity.” This is what I have so far. Then I created another layer and went to Image near the top and Apply Image and hit ok. This basically slaps an image of your canvas at that time into that layer. I then went to Filter to Other to High Pass and used 2.2px. I then set that layer to “soft light.” I then added “Kimberly” text near the bottom right of the color and to lighten up the edges of the canvas, I created a new layer and used a soft white brush to brush the sides and set that layer to “soft light.” Here’s what I got so far. I then added a couple more gradient maps (adjustment layers) to tweak the signature and bit and bring in some color. I then added a new layer and used a soft gray brush to brush the bottom of the signature to give it that foggy look to it. You can change the opacity of that to your likings. And well we are done. I hope you enjoy this tutorial. echo $variable;The post Photoshop Signature Tutorial #2 [Vertical] appeared first on Photoshop Online. via Blogger Photoshop Signature Tutorial #2 [Vertical] |
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