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

That's really nice Uguel, well done.

 

Hey Uguel!!

That is a great picture!! It is so full of color and action!

I love the frame and the helmet!!

You ARE busy!! Doing your tuts and learning PHP!!

I like seeing what you can do with Photo also, just lookin' I

know I have a lot to catch up with and learn!

I can see you all are having fun over here too!

See ya later, guys!!

Marja

Mish, that storm picture is so awesome! It looked like it would have been fun to make!

 

Thanks Marja,

...yes, quite busy.
Hope you to see your new PSP creations too!

 

I have this picture of Beyonce and I wanted to try a colour pencil effect on it....

 

1. I opened my picture in Adobe Photoshop
2. I set the foreground colour to white and the background to black. Those settings will interfere when applying the coloured pencil effect...

3. I went to the Menu>Filters>Artistic Effects>Coloured Pencil.

4. I applied these settings:

Brush size: 2
Brush detail: 6
Paper opacity: 7

I got this....This is not too bad but I did not like the sharpness
of the black line that follows the edges of the face.... neither the dark colour under the eyes.

 

So I used the "Dodge tool" in order to soften lines and lighten the dark areas. I clicked and draged over all the areas in the picture I wanted to lighten.

After I was finished, I took a brush and added a dark turquoise in the eyes. For the background, I used the gradient flood filter, dark turquoise for the foreground and black for the background.

And I got this...

TTFN!

 

Uguel, only you would take a beautiful woman and try to make her MORE!! Wow, she looks like a totally different person, doesn't she? That's amazing, I wouldn't have thought she would look so different??

That's great, Uguel, you are going 'great guns"! "On a roll." Better? I am glad you are finding time and place to do what you love and are so good at!

When you put a colored pencil effect, do you draw the lines? I haven't a clue?

OK! Now put her back, we don't need TWO Beyonce's!! )LOL!!

Have Fun!!

Marja

 

Hey thanks,

I have lots of fun with these graphic programs!!!
They are very addictive.

No, the colour pencil is a filter already implimented in both Photoshop
and Paint Shop Pro. In Paint Shop, you will find it in Effects> Art Media Effects>Colored Pencils. I would advise you to try different settings depending the effect you want to achieve. For faces or people, I usually set the intensity to low.

 

That's brilliant Uguel, perfect compromise between art and realism within the given topic.

Excellent.

 

Thanks Mish& happy Birthday again!

When are we going to see your next creations
I learned a lot with the pics you sent.

 

I wanted to try the different blending modes from the Layer Palette
in order to get familiar with them. I started off with a picture of
316x500 pixels that I intended to modify a little bit.

 

Step 1

I decided to put it in black and white and keep just a little bit
of colour in it. So I went to Image>Color Adjustment>Desaturate
...the pic became black'n' white.

Step 2

I duplicated my first layer and started to work on layer 2.

Step 3

I went to the Menu again and clicked on Window>History.
...the History Palette opened.

Step 4

I clicked the snapshot button down into the History Palette.

...so Photoshop put a copy of the current state of the image into
the Histry palette. I clicked on the left side of the snapshot to
select it as the History Brush source.


Step 5

I clicked the History Brush.

Step 6

I hit the History brush then I clicked and dragged inside the
the image and coloured only the parts I wanted...
Pixels from the previous snapshot will be painted into the image.

Step 7

After I was finished with the History brush.
I went to the Layer Palette.
I added a new Layer>Blending Modes> Linear Burn
I set it to 30%

Step 8

I added a new layer.
I went to the layer Palette again....
I added a new Layer>Blending Modes> Soft light
I set it to 32%


Step 9

I went to Image> Adjustment>
I meged all visible layers.

Step 10

I corrected some areas by using the Clone Stamp and had to
fiddle a bit to do it right.... I also filled the background with
black. Then I cropped the pic.

Step 11

I opened Photofiltre and added a thin frame to the pic.
I am sure that there are many other methods of achieving similar
results, this is just one.


TTFN!