Jazz Festival Poster
Another in the series from the Kelby training. In addition to some filters, like finding edges, this tutorial uses the pattern brush, which was new to me. I think there could be a lot of interesting uses of it.
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Musicians
This is the first of (I hope) several examples from the Kelby Photoshop seminar I went to last week. This piece was done using adjustment layers, layer masks, a variety of image adjustments and a little painting.
House rendering/photo
A client asked me about doing a combination drawing/photo for some of her portfolio images. In trying to come up with a quick technique, I tried using the stylize > find edges filter. The result is close enough to what she wanted and only takes a few minutes per photo.
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This tutorial show how to turn a photograph into a digital painting. I didn’t like the final result using the filter settings in the tutorial, so I started over and changed some of them as I went along. The length of time is very dependent on how careful you are with the final step of painting with the smudge tool. I learned a helpful tip in using layers too. When copying and pasting part of a layer and you need to make sure they are aligned, change the blend mode to difference, and all will be black when they are aligned.
read moreRibbon
I wanted to follow this Photoshop tutorial, but I can’t get the hand of the Photoshop pen tool, so I used the pen tool in Illustrator for the shapes, then brought it into Photoshop. I added a couple of filters to the end result.
read moreRealistic Photoshop apple
I completed this project over 3 sessions that easily qualify for 3 days of design projects. This excellent tutorial taught me as much about drawing, which I don’t know a lot about, as it did Photoshop. It uses a lot of filters, especially gaussian blurs, and different blend modes.
read moreColorize photo
A while ago I needed to colorize a black and white photo for something and it took me forever, so when I saw this tutorial, I thought it would make a good exercise. It really only took about 15 minutes. There is a little bit of black and white showing at the hairline, but when I need to do one for real, it won’t take much time to correct that.
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