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Today was my just feel creative day. So I just played with a combination of tricks I knew and created a couple of images. Here is one of them, which I called Silver Nights.
If you are interested to know how it is done, please contact me and I will send you the tricks.
After our sandy adventures in parts 1 and 2, finally it is time to have some fun scribbles on the sand!
- Grab the sandy texture you have created in “Sandy Pictures – Part 2”
- Add a Text Layer and write something you like. I chose “Sunny”
- Double click in the text layer to open the Style window
- Change the blending mode to Colour Dodge
- Select Contour from the Styles and double click on it
- Play with Elements and Range to get the right effect
Here is my “Sunny Sand”.
Now it is time for me to experience some textures on sand! I grab my sand picture from the “Sandy Pictures – Part 1”.
To add texture to the sand
- Double click on the layer to open the style window
- Double click on the texture and select a pattern like bubbles, or clouds.
- Play with the Scale and Depth
- Try Invert to see the effects
I love drawing on sand. Whenever I go to seaside, it is one of my rituals to write names of people I love on the sand.
It was a frosty morning today, but when the sun came out, I felt like being on a sun-kissed sand somewhere warm. Photoshop came to my rescue.
Here I created a sand texture background in Photoshop to use later for my drawing.
- Create a new file in Photoshop with default setting. I used a 300 px by 300 px size.
- Fill it in with a yellowish colour such as d6hd81
- Add 20% of Gaussian Monochromic noise.
- Colorize by Image Adjustment, Hue/Saturation.
- Get ready for the next adventure on the beach.
It does not have to be hours of work to transmit your favourite landscape photo to a work of art. Here is how you get the arty result.
- Open your photo in Photoshop
- Double click on the background layer to un-lock it
- Duplicate the layer
- Desaturate it
- Filter > Stylize > Find Edges
- Set the layer as a Colour Burn
- Save and enjoy!
It is not always the case of brining those old photos to life by adding colour and restoring the scratches and stains. Sometime it is nice to work the other way. Go back in time and see what we get. This is a very easy process in Photoshop and can be achieved by using only two image adjustments, i.e. Desaturate and Hue/Saturation.
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Go to Photoshop and open your original colour image.
- Go to Image Adjustments and apply Desaturate.
- Go to Image Adjustments again and click on Hue/Saturation
- Make sure the Colorize is ticked.
- Use Hue around 33 and Saturation around 22, and keep the lightness at 0.
- Enjoy your new old picture!
The image used in this work is a painting originally by Liotard, Jean-Etienne called The Chocolate-Girl c. 1743-45.
And here is my first attempt to transfer my Photoshop tricks. Imagine it is a very cold day, one of those greyish days after snow, when the ice speaks of constant wriggles on the floor. Penguins are fed up with the cold and all out the water nagging and cursing the weather!
I had an email from one of my penguin friends, called Pingu. She was desperate for my help to get them some warmer, sunnier sky to melt the ice and heat the waters. She confessed that she missed swimming so much.
So I started to work.
- I duplicated my original layer.
- Then I went to Photo Filter via Image – Adjustment.
- Applied a warm filter.
- Made it more realistic by using the Brightness/Contrast.
I emailed the image back to Pingu. She replied to me with a warm smile! Have a go. Add some warmth to your images!
The soar of digital technology has revolutionised art by increasing the possibilities an artist may have for expressing and communicating messages that cannot be otherwise articulated with words.
Adobe Photoshop is a unique fantastic tool that comes with a set of filters that assist in creating art by using photographs. These filters bundled with layers and masks and an infinite possibility to use existing brushes and patterns as well as creating new ones opens a world of magic to any graphic artist.
I have created the art work here by using an original picture of a red rose and a combination of filters and adjustment layers. My plan is to update this site with some of my Photoshop work as well as creating simple entries that can be followed for fun as well as learning that extra Photoshop trick.
Feel free to download my "Dark Rose" and send it to your Valentine.