I spent yesterday experimenting with PSE. I wanted to create one of those weird pictures where reality and picture are mixed up together. I wanted to give the illusion that I was actually painting the picture so I took a picture of my hand and added it to the picture and converted some of the picture to black and white. I didn't actually want the hand to look too real - I wanted it to look part of the picture - so I added a black outline and used the cut out filter to make it a bit blocky.
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Friday 2 August 2013
Flowers for Photo Art Friday
I haven't taken part in Photo Art Friday for a while but when I saw it was flowers, I thought I just had to submit a picture as my hubby had taken some great pictures of the flowers in our garden.
So here is my submission:
And here is how I did it.
So here is my submission:
And here is how I did it.
- I copied the background layer (ctrl+j for PC or cmd+j for Mac)
- I then set the foreground colour to #c1a567 and the background to white.
- With the copy selected, I went to the filter gallery and choose the Stamp under Sketch and changed the Light/Dark balance so that most of the flower and leaves were beige.
- I then changed the blending mode of this layer to Pin Light and set the opacity to 83%.
- Pen and ink layer: I made another copy of the background and went to Filter>Sketch>Pen and Ink. I put the detail up to 1 with a little width and contrast and put the fill down to zero so that it was just a black outline on white.
- I then went to the magic wand tool selected a white area and deleted the white. I set the opacity of this layer to 60%.
- I brought in the free texture, Sky Love, from Pixel Dust Photo Art and set the blending mode to Color Burn and the opacity to 72%. I put this layer just below the pen and ink layer.
- Finally I added a levels adjustment layer and lightened the whole image a little.
Thursday 1 August 2013
Andy Skinner's Book of Secrets
Finally finished my 'Book of Secrets' or in this case Box of Secrets. I see Andy's starting a new course on the 9th August 2013.
Had such fun doing this box and have a couple more in mind....
Had such fun doing this box and have a couple more in mind....
Also thought it fitted in well with this week's theme of time on Inspiration Avenue.
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