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Thu, Jul 10th - 11:18AM Photoshop tutorial making an eye Eyeball. Colour Pupil and Iris This is a texture that I found to be very effective for the Iris of an eye. Start by creating a new file around 1000 pixels square. Your colour palette should be set to Red foreground, white background or You can use Red foreground, black background if you want flecks of red in your iris. Filter/render/clouds Filter/texture/stained glass/ cell size 10/ light intensity 4/ border 3 Filter/blur/radial blur zoom/distance 80 Image/Adjust/Invert Image/adjust/exposure (adjust for more contrast) New Layer. Draw circle on a new layer. Almost filling the canvas. Feather 1 pixel and fill with black. Next from the drop down menu, Select, modify/contract/ set to 6. Feather the selection by 5, delete. You should now be left with a dark ring. On a new layer draw a new circle for the pupil, not too big and fill with black. In the Layers pallet, select this layer and add outer glow. Choose a green that compliments the blue textured iris. Make it wide and diffused, just play with the setting until you are happy. On a new layer create the highlights by drawing a circle and filling with whit, but use the graduated fill set to colour to transparent. Shape the catch light how you like, but bear in mind you should be following the curvature of the “ball” of the eye. On new layers add more catch lights or reflections as you so desire and vary the transparencies of the layers to get varying degree of reflections. To finish, select with the magic wand the outside of the larger circle. Keep the selection active and create a new layer and fill the selection with white. A final burning in of the mid-tones around the edge of the eye should create a further illusion of a bulge in the eye. Update!! I made the iris outer glow a bit brighter. Added another outer ring underneath the existing one with a thicker and heavily feathered dark green. Then on the "iris rays" layer, i used the smudge tool to create the dividing line between the green glow and the outer colours. I added a more convincing highlight!! Back to restorations in the next post. If you would like to download an action that automates most of this then you can get it here. I will be revisiting this post to produce a more realistic eye soon...stay tuned! Comment (4)
Thu, Jul 10th - 11:15AM Photoshop tutorial, text bathed in light Making text bathed in light Start by creating a new file around 1000 pixels square. Your colour palette should be set to white foreground, black background Fill the layer with black Create a new layer, with this layer Choose filter/render/clouds Next filter/texture/stained glass enter cell size 10, border 2, light intensity 3, click ok Next Filter/blur/motion blur. Set angle to 90 blur amount 400 Set blending mode of this layer to “Hard light” Next select all “ctrl A” and edit/transform/perspective tweak until you are happy with the angle of light. We are trying to go for a “coming down from above” look. Take a big soft eraser brush and erase the hard edges of the perspective transformation. If you like you can now crop the canvas to encompass the best shafts of light to an image of landscape proportions. Add new layer Select text tool and white text Type your word or slogan Enlarge so that the text is two thirds of the canvas size. Duplicate this layer Set the top layer of text to blending mode “exclusion” Set the bottom layer of text to blending mode “difference” Now using the selection tool to make the bottom layer active, use the arrow keys to nudge the layer off set slightly by around two nudges or two pixels to give the text a 3D effect. Finally position the text in a good shaft of light Play with the fonts and bevel and emboss or other filters to make you text stand out even more. Comment (0)
Thu, Jul 10th - 11:12AM Text and waves tutorial Making waves in Photoshop Start by creating a new file around 3000 pixels square. Your colour palette should be set to white foreground, black background Choose filter/render/clouds then Filter/blur/motion blur angle 0, around 350 At this point I though the contrast was a bit lacking for the effect I was trying to create so I hit the auto levels button More blurring. Filter/blur/motion blur around 350 Smooth out the blur effect slightly with filter/noise/median. Set to around 20 Select all and use the Edit/transform/perspective to crunch down the perspective so it looks like the waves are heading off into the distance. You will then need to use the “scale” from the same menu to squash this down vertically to stretch out the waves even more. And then scale it wider for more stretching. Another quick auto levels to adjust the contrast again. Now we add some lighting effects to bring in some enhancement of the waves. Convert image to RGB mode if not already. Use filter/render/lighting effects single spot and have a play with what give the most pleasing contrast enhancement to the waves. Something central and above gives a moonlight sea effect. Crop the image to encompass the best bits of the sea. Please take note here. The waves are completely random and you will end up with different looking waves to me. Add new layer Select text tool and white text Type your word slogan or company name Enlarge so that the text is a good size. Duplicate this layer Set the top layer of text to blending mode “overlay” Set the bottom layer of text to blending mode “exclusion” bevel and emboss text of the top layer using the layers pallet. Add reflection, by duplicating the text layers and selecting them both. Rasterize these layers and merge them together. Edit/transform/scale and drag from the top through to the bottom to scale the words upside down, about two thirds height of the original text. Edit/transform/perspective and widen out the words to give a slight perspective. In order for the next bit to work we need to scale down the whole image to around 400 to 600 pixels wide. Make a rectangular selection around the lowest part of the perspective text and feather to around 10 pixels and delete. This is to fade the text into the water. You may need to adjust the levels or brightness to get the effect you like best. Now from the filters menu select distort/ripple/ -100 Finally adjust the opacity till you are happy with effect. If you like you can add a colour overlay layer to blue. More to come in the next post... Comment (0)