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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Plug-Ins


I googled free Photoshop plugins and I went to some of the sites with lists, looked around quite a bit, and downloaded some plugins. Filter Forge Freepack 2 has Grunge along with some other effects and Image Skill has Outliner. Pixel Bender has an effect called Hole which I used for Kitteh Bond ;)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Layer Mask

Edit - Paste Special - Paste Into

Masks


For some reason hair is easier than fur. It's possible I was doing something wrong but I don't know what. I tried doing a hedgehog and a cat, neither successful. I was using this technique http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-russell-brown-show/masking-basics-in-photoshop-cs5/ and it worked great on the above image and on another of a woman in period costume but on the animals when I used the brush nothing happened or a little bit of yuk happened. Anyway, same technique here and she looks pretty good.


 I haven't done anything yet with this woman besides slap her into the picture ala a mask.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Depth of Field



Layer Blending

I layered a mirrored gradient of dark blue set to multiply on the corners to accentuate the pandas face and name. I blended duplicate layers of the background with a glowing edges filter on one of them (layer 0 between the other two) and a soft light on the top one.
I made a knockout on the word balloon. The red panda was disappearing around his dark areas so I gave him a little orange glow.

Background street - http://frozentime.org/new-year-in-london-2008-2009-255.htm
Red panda - http://izismile.com/2010/03/24/exotic_red_panda_or_ldquoshining_catrdquo_22_pics-7.html



Monday, November 5, 2012

Time


Surrealism assignment.
Bronze Mask - http://the-night-bird.deviantart.com/art/Bronze-Mask-03-181299009
Skeleton - http://jayjd2.deviantart.com/art/Skeleton-Stock-3-by-jayjd2-154577824
White Mask - http://lured2stock.deviantart.com/art/Mask-1-2777188
White Mask - http://lured2stock.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1nix7
Florida Beach - http://nevertakemystock.deviantart.com/art/Florida-Beach-08-149080164
Face - http://staticstock-dot-com.deviantart.com/art/Face-front-on-2-stock-65267453
Masked Character - http://ysaeddastock.deviantart.com/art/Masked-pack-3-130081022
Hooded Character - http://alekdust.deviantart.com/art/Capuche-et-silhouette-272099991
Mermaid - http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Goldfish-2-53812663
Clock - http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=clock+face#/d4nmwm
Sundial - Google Images
Original Vector Objects made with pen tool - Starfish and glass part of hourglass, the sides are made with the line tool. I didn't want it to look too lousy.