The Moon Garden Lounge
Oct 26, 2012 11:14:25 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2012 11:14:25 GMT -5
Wow, annala, thank you for your insight about the hearing loss. A few years back I worked with a lady who had been blind since birth. I'll always remember how much she enjoyed traveling in spite of the hassles. Like me she enjoyed historic sites. So much work goes into making historic sites look authentic, and thinking about how she experienced them through her other senses was a consciousness-raising thing for me.
Since it's Friday, I thought I might share a little bit more about my Photoshop lessons.
This project had me learning a lot of new things. First, I learned to desaturate all the color out of the image, and then apply an overlay to it to get that sepia toned look. I also learned a new way to select the part of the image you want (in this case the Adam part without the background). In this tutorial you used something called a magnetic lasso that sticks to the defined edges of part of an image.
Obviously this works better when you actually have defined edges. In this case, the blonde hair stood out well from the background. That made it a lot easier and was one of the main reasons I chose this picture.
But the big takeaway in this project was learning how to make the rainbow patterns behind Adam. It turns out that you can make something called a "brush" in Photoshop for repeating images. This brush isn't really like a paintbrush; it can be almost anything you want to repeat in your image, and you can change it, resize, and color it however you want.
Apparently you can make anything into a brush if you know how. I found that people make all kinds of cool brushes and let you download them for free on art sites, just because they're nice and it's fun to share. That's how I found the brush for this picture.
I learned how to apply the rainbow effect, called a gradient, to the brush and to the lettering, and I also learned how to add the lighting effect behind Adam. All pretty fun.
The other interesting thing is how different the images turn out from the tutorial itself. It would be fun to be in an actual class and see how each student took the same basic tasks and created something with an entirely different look and feel.
Since it's Friday, I thought I might share a little bit more about my Photoshop lessons.
This project had me learning a lot of new things. First, I learned to desaturate all the color out of the image, and then apply an overlay to it to get that sepia toned look. I also learned a new way to select the part of the image you want (in this case the Adam part without the background). In this tutorial you used something called a magnetic lasso that sticks to the defined edges of part of an image.
Obviously this works better when you actually have defined edges. In this case, the blonde hair stood out well from the background. That made it a lot easier and was one of the main reasons I chose this picture.
But the big takeaway in this project was learning how to make the rainbow patterns behind Adam. It turns out that you can make something called a "brush" in Photoshop for repeating images. This brush isn't really like a paintbrush; it can be almost anything you want to repeat in your image, and you can change it, resize, and color it however you want.
Apparently you can make anything into a brush if you know how. I found that people make all kinds of cool brushes and let you download them for free on art sites, just because they're nice and it's fun to share. That's how I found the brush for this picture.
I learned how to apply the rainbow effect, called a gradient, to the brush and to the lettering, and I also learned how to add the lighting effect behind Adam. All pretty fun.
The other interesting thing is how different the images turn out from the tutorial itself. It would be fun to be in an actual class and see how each student took the same basic tasks and created something with an entirely different look and feel.
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