Photoshop V7.0 > current version (CS/V8.0)

And finally, this is the result.

 

That's funny Mishimasan,

I decided to emal a picture of me to my sister to make her jealous by skin, and the skin of my shirt looked very rough. i think i got it good enough for the purpose but it was not an easy fix. should is show befor or after?...after i think!


By the way, the beautiful thing you see is my new iPod shuffle.

 

LaDainian_Photoshop

I have a picture of LaDainian Tomlinson and I want to make
a few changes in it....I am going to modify this picture by using
the blur tool from the tool palette and blur the background in
order to emphasize the players more.

 

Re: LaDainian_Photoshop

You can see clearly the blur tool from the palette on the left.
So "goutte d'eau" is the blur tool I am going to use to fade
the background area. First, I set it to 10 to blur large areas and
then I reduced the size to 3 as I was getting nearer to the players.
........As you can see here, the background
changed for the blur tool was applied in it.

 

Re: LaDainian_Photoshop

That was all.
I only want to demonstrate one of the multiple possibilities
that you can do by only using the tools from the tools palette.
You can add any filters, effects, you want after
After my picture was done, I applied a blur effect all over
the picture and boosted the colours a little bit.

 

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And here's the result with the blur effect applied
in the background only.

 

LaDainian is one of the best runningbacks in the NFL
and is the most popular San Diego Charger.


Hey Mishimasan.... I added a frame to my rose and
I used Paint Shop to do so....
..I haven't figure out out how to do it properly
in Photoshop yet...I can do a plain one but I cannot do
a transparent one. If you can do it yourself let me know
how you did it....Thanks.

 

... a more transparent one

 

Sorry that I have been away for so long, I have been very busy and spending a lot of time with my girlfriend.

Very nice work guys, Uguel, I really love what you did with the American footballer. Amazing, I wouldn't say it if I didn't think it - simple yet effective, oh and a nice new avatar aswell. Sometime I will show you how to do the borders with the blending tools, perhaps in a tutorial or in MSN.

HandsOff, could we see the picture before? Or do you have some kind of skin disorder you do not want us to see?

 

can someone help me.....finally going to figure out how to properly use photoshop, i edit basically just dig. photos.... i understand how to make a pic black and white , but cant figure out how to do this with photoshoop....i did this with microsoft picture it 7.....can only imagine the results are better with CS

thanks

 

There are many ways to make a picture black and white in Photoshop, but it's how you want the entire image to appear that is what is important.

For instance, if you use the desaturate option in the Image > Adjustment options, you will totally wipe out all of the colour values (RGB, CMYK).

Then you can also use the "hue and saturation" options in the same menu. This will allow you to saturate the image as you please.

 

Desaturate:

 

Hue and Saturation:

 

Or simply select the grayscale mode (origanol will likely be RGB -for Red, Green, and Blue - which is a colore mode)

- HandsOff

 

and Wa-Lah

- HandsOff

 

I was going to try and work on Daryl Thomas, but I thought the picture was just flat out too dark. I tried to get it lighter, but i'm not sure if that will make it better in the end. I looked at Uguel's pic where she did the blur all over an saturated the colors. That picture looks good to me. I'm still trying to recognize what is wrong in pictures. To me this one seemed like there was too much contrast, too little brightness, too little saturation. The guy in the white shirt between the players just gets right in the middle of the picture, that is probably why they have too little brightness. In desperation I tried to change his shirt more gray (actually colored with brush). That may be cheating. If I had it to do over again I would make it even darker gray. I probly went in the wrong direction....


-HandsOff

 

Sometimes it's nice to use the brush tools. Remember, you can use the blur tools and brush tools with other effects like "overlay" or "difference", "darken" and "lighten". It's better this way because you have total control over what you edit, to the accuracy of the size of your brush and the intensity and flow of the tool.

 

but you willnotice the rose is red......... how do we do this in photoshop?

thanks

 

Hi phatkid .

This is my quick method:



- Opened the pic in PS and Desaturated.

- Then on to Image> Adjustments> Shadows/Higlights and set it at 5% for shadows and 50% for highlights

- Then on to Image> Adjustments> Curves and messed around until I got the result I liked.

- Then I created a new layer, zoomed in at 400% and chose a nice red color with a soft brush and painted the rose bud red, and then played aroung with the Blending options and Layer effects

- Created another new layer for the leaves and stem and also played around with the Blending options and Layer effects.

Oh...the layers were set to Overlay mode.



That is it...not bad for a quick and dirty job ....about 3-5 mins to make.

Regards,
Jade.

 

And here is the way that I did it. I edited only the "Hue and saturation" options (you can load the picture that you provided):


p.s. you may notice a change in the brightness and contrast of the image, this is due to the monitor profile that I am using. My colour profile is set to that of my monitor, and for every monitor this is different.

 

but how did you keep the rose with colour?

im interested in keeping the rose from being desaturated..... rather not have to paint colour BACK in a pic, if i can just select to keep it out of the mix.....

oh wait maybe dodge tool

ill try

keep me updated

cory

 

It's pretty simple. In order to keep an area from being affected by any kind of state-change, just select it with the lasso tool, or the selection tool, or the magic wand tool, then go to selection > inverse. This will leave the area that you don't want to touch, unselected.

p.s.

The picture that Bowserman and I used, was already the way that you wanted it. All that we did was give you advice on how to get there from scratch. Obviously, you are going to have to select the rose and then either copy and paste it as a new layer (so that when you work on the original layer it does not affect the rose), or select the entire image apart from the rose (inverse selection of the rose as mentioned above).

 

This is an example of selective desaturation using the Image > Adjustments > Desaturate tool.

In order to get the selection below, use any of the selection tools, then press SHIFT+CTRL+I...

 

finally!!! figured it out..........thanks guys...

i tried most options untill the wee hours last nite.... except the copy image via cut.......knew it would be something simple......

cory

 

"...The guy in the white shirt between the players just gets right in the middle of the picture, that is probably why they have too little brightness...."

Hmmm, right, first I tied to blur it more but all I got is a lighter white in the background which was not good since the white draws the eye too much...
but I was thinking of selecting the players, invert the selection, and then reduce the opacity of the background....

And maybe make the colours bit brighter in the foreground....