Sitting in my hotel room I'm tinkering with some old beach scenes. Not my best but quite fun.
Friday, 11 April 2014
Hong Kong
I haven't posted much lately and that's because I have had a huge upheaval. I am now living with my hubby in Hong Kong! Wow. Didn't think I would be saying that a year ago. The big question is will I find all my art supplies here and what will this year bring with it. All very exciting, all very unknown.
Sitting in my hotel room I'm tinkering with some old beach scenes. Not my best but quite fun.
Sitting in my hotel room I'm tinkering with some old beach scenes. Not my best but quite fun.
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Friday, 14 March 2014
Saturday, 1 March 2014
When in Doubt Add an Arty Texture
The problem with photo manipulation is that there is no set recipe.
I have been trying out some techniques from a Photoshop magazine and although they work well with the magazine's picture of a flower, they just don't suit the flower photograph I'm trying to use.
So here is my original flower photograph:
Here is the flower picture after following steps in the magazine:
It doesn't feel like anything special to me. Now what?
Often, when I get to this point in a manipulation, I start looking at my texture backgrounds. These art textures might be created in Photoshop Elements or in this case, it was a gelli print I did which I enhanced in Photoshop:
So I added this layer on top of my flowers and changed the blend mode to difference. I reduced the opacity to about 50% so that the flowers weren't overwhelmed. It was a little dark so finally I added a levels adjustment layer to lightened it and also changed the hue and saturation with a further adjustment layer. This was my final result - somehow a little more arty and not quite so ordinary.
I have been trying out some techniques from a Photoshop magazine and although they work well with the magazine's picture of a flower, they just don't suit the flower photograph I'm trying to use.
So here is my original flower photograph:
Here is the flower picture after following steps in the magazine:
It doesn't feel like anything special to me. Now what?
Often, when I get to this point in a manipulation, I start looking at my texture backgrounds. These art textures might be created in Photoshop Elements or in this case, it was a gelli print I did which I enhanced in Photoshop:
So I added this layer on top of my flowers and changed the blend mode to difference. I reduced the opacity to about 50% so that the flowers weren't overwhelmed. It was a little dark so finally I added a levels adjustment layer to lightened it and also changed the hue and saturation with a further adjustment layer. This was my final result - somehow a little more arty and not quite so ordinary.
It's All About the Detail
Ever tried to get a good picture of a creature and all you get is a little face peering from behind some leaves in the distance? Well, all might not be lost....
My hubby took this photograph at a wonderful golf course in Hilton Head. The little critter was darting this way and that and to be quite frank we were not close enough. However, I thought it was such a classic picture of the little fellow I just had to try and do something with it:
The picture was pretty sharp and high resolution but I wanted to try and bring out some of the detail. The first step was to crop it in close to get rid of all the dead space around it. Then I used one of my favourite techniques to bring out the detail (see my YouTube video to see now it's done). I made a copy of the original photograph and applied the pen and ink method:
I then blended this with the original photograph using luminosity. Next I copied these layers to a new layer, turned off the pen and ink layer and decreased the opacity to 60% to bring back more detail from the original picture. Finally, I added a frame texture (from Shadowhouse Creations), upped the saturation and changed the levels using adjustment layers. This is the final result:
My hubby took this photograph at a wonderful golf course in Hilton Head. The little critter was darting this way and that and to be quite frank we were not close enough. However, I thought it was such a classic picture of the little fellow I just had to try and do something with it:
The picture was pretty sharp and high resolution but I wanted to try and bring out some of the detail. The first step was to crop it in close to get rid of all the dead space around it. Then I used one of my favourite techniques to bring out the detail (see my YouTube video to see now it's done). I made a copy of the original photograph and applied the pen and ink method:
I then blended this with the original photograph using luminosity. Next I copied these layers to a new layer, turned off the pen and ink layer and decreased the opacity to 60% to bring back more detail from the original picture. Finally, I added a frame texture (from Shadowhouse Creations), upped the saturation and changed the levels using adjustment layers. This is the final result:
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