Sunday, June 17, 2012

17.06.2012

Decided to give Photoshop a go. Very tough to get a hang of but I can see why people learn it. It is extremely fun :)





This took me a hour to do following a tutorial on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCWloOrUm9E&feature=g-vrec . I wrote out this video into some handy steps for anyone who wants to try this. Check out the tut though by Iogongod it is very good.


Word Picture Steps.
  1. Pick picture
  2. Go to select =Colour range= Shadows (Keep transparency always.) ctrl c and ctrl J to get a new layer
  3. Same again but pick Midtone.
  4. Turn off background layer.
  5. Select the midtone layer and go to the edit menu and fill with 50% grey.
  6. Select shadows layer and fill (edit) and use black colour.
  7. Merge two layers.
  8. New document and select text button (T).
  9. Past in the Paragraph.
  10. Select the rectangular marque and go to edit menu and brush present.
  11. Create 2 new layers.
  12. Select bottom one and ctrl backspace. Then hide it.( get it white)
  13. Select the top new one and get the brush you just made. Put opacity down to about 33%. Paint on.
  14. Select text layer and click the eye.
  15. Select the one with shadows and tones press ctrl a and ctrl c.
  16. On the text layer turn visibility on and background off.
  17. Add new layer mask on the text layer and press alt and the layer mask (it is now white). Ctrl V on the white layer mask. Ctrl d and ctrl I.
  18. Select the text and turn on the white back ground layer.
  19. Select text layer and go to add layer style and go to gradient. Pick colour and change blending to screen.
  20. Select a soft brush. Paint over the text layer using black as the foreground colour.

If you want just one word over and over.
  1. Add new layer
  2. Brush present with the word on it.
  3. Brush present window. Go to dynamics and scatter.
  4. Scatter on the new layer.
  5. Then click on the text layer and copy layer style and paste it on the new

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