Photoshop: January 2013

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Wood Nymph 1

I've included a link to the tutorial I used to help me create this image. I veered off on my own a little but it's always fun to experiment! For me with this image it was easier to use the eraser rather than a Layer Mask. I didn't want cracks on her fingers. I took the image of the peeling tree into Camera Raw made it more pink rather than the natural orange that was inside the tree.

http://misssouls-stock.deviantart.com/art/Back-1-166524593
http://humblebeez.deviantart.com/art/cracks-1-184649938
http://elvenred.deviantart.com/art/Peeling-114334939
http://kuschelirmel-stock.deviantart.com/art/Crack-and-Peel-157854964?moodonly=1#comments

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Depths of Blue

I painted over the mermaid rather than using filters in order to make her more like a painting. The background is a composite of 2 gradients, a photo of some sand, some fish (I erased most of their background) and the sea life near the left bottom corner which lost their color in order to get them merge properly so I added color on three layers for them. I used the oil paint filter before I added fish and sea life.
Layer 2 and Layer 2 copy are the fish. I hadn't named them yet.

Originally, I was working with the type and then it turned into a bigger project than I had planned.

http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Goldfish-2-53812663

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Dark Dream

More experimenting. Trying to intensify mood.

Moods

http://empatia-stock.deviantart.com/art/casual-porcelain2-106233881

Experiment with modes, opacity and colors. Black and white was created with desaturation. The Gaussian Blur is on a duplicate of black and white image. I moved the gray slider (middle) in Levels towards my left, to bring up more white.