To be honest... this ones a toss up. Can't tell which one I like better. What kind of blending did you use?
Waxy and Dr.
Umm... I used Overlay from a duplicate layer gaussian blurred.
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Question, what do you mean by blending?
You asked what kind of blending he used, well, what kind of blending is available.
If we just do like the last assignment, make the duplicate, blur it, vivid light it, then dodge and burn a bit. Maybe do something else in the mode thing. Sometime it is good to go then.
Does that qualify for blending?
Or does it have to be flattened, I have had to do that in order to get it to take a frame, so I would assume that is real blending. But what about when you don't have to flatten it.
Basket Ladies
This is a picture. I will figure out which one, and yes, I took them today.
This is basket ladies. They are engaged in the old art of making baskets which they sell. I saw these women outside of an outdoor mall we have. Environmental issues are making it difficult for these women to find the materials they need, and now they are selling on a busy highway, essentially. This used to be a two lane road, fast but rural. It is now very suburban. These baskets are very expensive, in my mind. They are shown in museums. Beautiful, and the women hate to be photographed, that was the most difficult part of this. Skulking along through the parking lot.......... trying not to be noticed.
It is almost 5 AM, I did things to this picture on layers, but I don't remember what, it might have been an easy one with the blur and the vivid. I don't know if that counts.
Late Afternoon Light
I took these because I have been dying to get the opportunity. I have posted them on the site where the assignment was light. I would have taken them no matter what. With the blurring the, the vivid light, etc, the pictures were better than they would have been before I learned that.
The original, in which the plane does not stand out from the background.
And the new version. I used Overlay, I think. Again, I masked the plane to make it standout, and then masked in the original plane as well, to help make it brighter and standout. Prolly overdone, again...
Sid I really like this plane job..what did YOU do to it..
My horse pic I just cropped the heck out of it, gaussion blurred (addicted) and then wiped out the center and sharpened eyes and parts of hair etc.
Lynn
You asked what kind of blending he used, well, what kind of blending is available.
If we just do like the last assignment, make the duplicate, blur it, vivid light it, then dodge and burn a bit. Maybe do something else in the mode thing. Sometime it is good to go then.
Does that qualify for blending?
Or does it have to be flattened, I have had to do that in order to get it to take a frame, so I would assume that is real blending. But what about when you don't have to flatten it.
So, again, what do you mean by blending?
ginger
Hi Ginger. You answered my question. I was wondering if you used the Overlay blending mode, or the Vivid blending mode. Blending is what you did when you picked a mode from the drop down menu in your Layers palette.
Sid I really like this plane job..what did YOU do to it..
My horse pic I just cropped the heck out of it, gaussion blurred (addicted) and then wiped out the center and sharpened eyes and parts of hair etc.
Lynn
Thanks for the answer. On the plane, I abused the heck out of that shot.
I did Overlay, which made everything quite dark. So I saw an opportunity to make the plane standout by brightening it. So I masked it out of the original Overlay (I erased the overlay of the plane to make it brighter.)
Then I got the original shot, fooled with levels and contrast and saturation and shadows to bump it up - then used a mask to once again put it on top of the other planes. I kept trying to make the plane brighter against the darker, overlay background. You can tell from where the light is blown out that I overdid it.
You asked what kind of blending he used, well, what kind of blending is available.
If we just do like the last assignment, make the duplicate, blur it, vivid light it, then dodge and burn a bit. Maybe do something else in the mode thing. Sometime it is good to go then.
Does that qualify for blending?
Or does it have to be flattened, I have had to do that in order to get it to take a frame, so I would assume that is real blending. But what about when you don't have to flatten it.
So, again, what do you mean by blending?
ginger
Anything you post here is flattened. Layers can only exist in photo editing environment.
I would guess blending is, from what Cletus demonstrated and defined, whenever you leave the original layer alone and just mess with duplicate layers and how those duplicates sit on top/below the original.
Thanks for the answer. On the plane, I abused the heck out of that shot.
I did Overlay, which made everything quite dark. So I saw an opportunity to make the plane standout by brightening it. So I masked it out of the original Overlay (I erased the overlay of the plane to make it brighter.)
Then I got the original shot, fooled with levels and contrast and saturation and shadows to bump it up - then used a mask to once again put it on top of the other planes. I kept trying to make the plane brighter against the darker, overlay background. You can tell from where the light is blown out that I overdid it.
I have a ham hand, but will keep trying.
Sid, I liked the way the water reflected on the undercarriage in the original, although I like the new its a shame this reflection has blown out..
You asked what kind of blending he used, well, what kind of blending is available.
If we just do like the last assignment, make the duplicate, blur it, vivid light it, then dodge and burn a bit. Maybe do something else in the mode thing. Sometime it is good to go then.
Does that qualify for blending?
Or does it have to be flattened, I have had to do that in order to get it to take a frame, so I would assume that is real blending. But what about when you don't have to flatten it.
So, again, what do you mean by blending?
ginger
I consider blending to be simply controlling how two or more layers interact. Here are some more examples:
I have an image with a simple background and three geometric shapes. Each shape is on it's own layer:
Examples of how these layers can be blended:
They can be stacked (Normal mode, 100% opacity)
They can be made partialy transparent (Normal mode, 50% opacity)
We can use layers to alter the color of the layer(s) under them (Color mode, 100% opacity):
Please, I need basic info, like getting a solid fill, etc.
Sorry to be so basic, but I can't figure out how to get a solid color fill area.
I went to bed around 7 or 8 this AM, and I won't be doing that anymore for awhile, but for the last few days, I have tried to get my bucket thingy to work, and I can't.
So last night, morning, I got off the computer, went and sat down on the couch with all 6 books, and decided it would be easy to find the answer.
I fell asleep, but before that, I had gone through several books without getting the answer, it is like the authors know, so they think we know.
And they say something like you did.
Or they say to use the bucket and change the color.
But I can't figure out how to use the bucket. You and I know that I could find out, probably, with much more research, but could you just explain it gently, as I have to play tennis the next three mornings, and I am responsible for the whole team for the next three weeks. I can't take hours to research, and I am going to be so far behind, etc.
I know it is soooooooo basic. I don't remember what else you said after we got the solid fill, as I already knew I couldn't do that, but could you explain what else we were supposed to do, something with "burn" in it, or something.
Sorry to be so basic, but I can't figure out how to get a solid color fill area.
Ginger,
Here is a step by step. Let me know if you're having trouble with anything.
Step 1) I open up the image in photoshp.
Here's what the image looks like:
and here's what my Layers Palette looks like:
Step 2) Create a new layer that we will fill with a solid color
There are about a million ways to create a new empty layer in Photoshop, but the best way is to click the Create a new layer button at the bottom of the Layers Palette:
After we click on the button, Photoshop creates a brand new empty layer and places it on the top of our image. Now the layer's palette looks like this:
Step 3) Pick the color we want to fill with
There are several ways to pick a color to work with in Photoshop. My favorite method is to use the Color Picker. To open the Color Picker, click on the foreground color box in the Tool Palette:
I used the Color Picker to set the foreground color to a shade of red. I've highlighted the fields in the color picker that I changed:
Once you're done selecting the color you want to use, click OK
Step 4) Filling the empty layer
At this point we have an empty layer, we have the color we want, we just need to fill our empty layer with our color. There are several ways to do this. Here are a couple:
a) Using the Paint Bucket Tool
Make sure that our empty layer is highlighted in the Layers Palette (if it isn't just click on it). Get the paint bucket tool from the tool palette and click anywhere in the image.
b) Using a keyboard shortcut
Once again, make sure the empty layer is highlighted in the Layers Palette. If you're using a PC press Alt + Backspace. If you're using a Mac press Option + Delete.
After we've filled the layer, the Layers Palette looks like this:
Step 5) Changing the blending mode
Make sure that our solid color layer is still highlighted in the Layers Palette then click on the Blending Mode drop down in the Layers Palette:
From the list of blending modes, select Color Burn
Sweetbriar Baskets, enhanced by blending with gold
Eric, You helped me, the only thing you forgot to tell me was which image to click on. So elementary. I used the alt and backspace keys. It worked, I despaired of ever using the bucket, but accidentally at some point I accidentally clicked on the BIG image on the screen and it worked, so I pulled out a photo I took yesterday. It is sweetbaskets that the sea island women sell, it is a stand with lots of them. I picked a kind of gold. Did the color burn, lowered the percentage a smidgen, framed it, and here it is. hehe. Thanks so much.
Eric, You helped me, the only thing you forgot to tell me was which image to click on. So elementary. I used the alt and backspace keys. It worked, I despaired of ever using the bucket, but accidentally at some point I accidentally clicked on the BIG image on the screen and it worked, so I pulled out a photo I took yesterday. It is sweetbaskets that the sea island women sell, it is a stand with lots of them. I picked a kind of gold. Did the color burn, lowered the percentage a smidgen, framed it, and here it is. hehe. Thanks so much.
This is ginger, I am going to copy all you wrote down and try some later, but I have Adobe Elements 2, I miss some of the frames I used to have available through a cheaper program. (The computer crashed, I would never have deleted the program.)
I could get more, but I would have to pay a bunch. I love your frame. Did you pay a bunch for a plug in? Is it something I could do, too. And I don't mean "pay a bunch", I mean could I do it, without paying anything.
How did you do it. I just love that picture, by the way. Just love it!
ginger
Hi Ginger,
Frames are very easy to do. My frame was a commercial plugin from Extensis (www.extensis.com). However, before I had this, I made all my frames. I have taken one of your photos to use as an example.
Photoshop Elements has most of the features of Photoshop. Hopefully what I'm about to describe to you can be done on Elements. If it can't, there is always a plan B. Many tasks can be done more than one way in Photoshop/Elements.
1. Open you photo and copy the Background layer (Ctrl-J). What we are going to do can't be done on the background layer.
2. Create a new layer (Ctrl_Shft-N).
3. Select White as your foreground color and fill the layer (Alt-BackSpace). Don't worry that everything has gone white. Just drag the white-filled layer below the copied image layer. Now you should temporarily see no white at all, just the photo.
4. Now we need to make the shape of the frame. First, click on the copied picture layer. Now, use a selection tool such as the Rectangular Marquee Tool or the Lasso (these are the ones I used for the photos below) and drag a "frame".
5. Here's the command that I hope is in Elements. Layer->Adjustment Layer->Reveal Selection. Now you should have a white border around the picture. Look at your layer. It now has a little black and white frame just to the right of the picture thumbnail. This is a layer mask. Everything that we do from here on is to the layer mask, not the photo.
6. Click on the layer mask. Select Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur. Use enough blur to soften the edge of the frame. You now have a perfectly acceptable frame, but let's do a bit more!
7. Run any other filter you would like from Filter->Brush Strokes or Filter->Distort, etc. These filters will jazz up your frame (I will decribe the ones I used with each photo). It's not important which one you use. Try anyone you want and see what happens.
8. Voila! Custom Frames!
Here's the 2 I did:
For this one I used the Rectangular Marquee tool, Gaussian Blur at about 3-4, Ocean Ripple filter (Filter->Distort->Ocean Ripple Ripple size 1, Magnitude 4)
For this picture I used the lasso and made a loopy selection for the "frame". The filter used was Filters->Brush Strokes->Sprayed Strokes (length 12 radius 7, direction right Diagonal).
So the trick to frames is to add a layer mask, blur it a bit, and run a filter for taste. This is just the start, but this should keep you going for a quite a while.
One more. It was late last night, before smugmug went down for retooling. I think I did either an Overlay or Multiply to double up the plane, then a Vivid with purple, using a mask to make the plane color free.
Comments
Umm... I used Overlay from a duplicate layer gaussian blurred.
2 days ago I would never have thunk<--- nice word eh! that I would have used those words in one sentence (sober).<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/1drink.gif" border="0" alt="" >
Tim
You asked what kind of blending he used, well, what kind of blending is available.
If we just do like the last assignment, make the duplicate, blur it, vivid light it, then dodge and burn a bit. Maybe do something else in the mode thing. Sometime it is good to go then.
Does that qualify for blending?
Or does it have to be flattened, I have had to do that in order to get it to take a frame, so I would assume that is real blending. But what about when you don't have to flatten it.
So, again, what do you mean by blending?
ginger
This is a picture. I will figure out which one, and yes, I took them today.
This is basket ladies. They are engaged in the old art of making baskets which they sell. I saw these women outside of an outdoor mall we have. Environmental issues are making it difficult for these women to find the materials they need, and now they are selling on a busy highway, essentially. This used to be a two lane road, fast but rural. It is now very suburban. These baskets are very expensive, in my mind. They are shown in museums. Beautiful, and the women hate to be photographed, that was the most difficult part of this. Skulking along through the parking lot.......... trying not to be noticed.
It is almost 5 AM, I did things to this picture on layers, but I don't remember what, it might have been an easy one with the blur and the vivid. I don't know if that counts.
I took these because I have been dying to get the opportunity. I have posted them on the site where the assignment was light. I would have taken them no matter what. With the blurring the, the vivid light, etc, the pictures were better than they would have been before I learned that.
ginger
My horse pic I just cropped the heck out of it, gaussion blurred (addicted) and then wiped out the center and sharpened eyes and parts of hair etc.
Lynn
How did you make yours blink?? Can you do mine?
If she's your goat and you object let me know!
Thanks
gubbs.smugmug.com
Thanks for the answer, your stuff looks nice!
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I can make her smile a bit too,
I did Overlay, which made everything quite dark. So I saw an opportunity to make the plane standout by brightening it. So I masked it out of the original Overlay (I erased the overlay of the plane to make it brighter.)
Then I got the original shot, fooled with levels and contrast and saturation and shadows to bump it up - then used a mask to once again put it on top of the other planes. I kept trying to make the plane brighter against the darker, overlay background. You can tell from where the light is blown out that I overdid it.
I have a ham hand, but will keep trying.
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Dang, I only just noticed that, and I have a 22" monitor!
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I would guess blending is, from what Cletus demonstrated and defined, whenever you leave the original layer alone and just mess with duplicate layers and how those duplicates sit on top/below the original.
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I have an image with a simple background and three geometric shapes. Each shape is on it's own layer:
Examples of how these layers can be blended:
They can be stacked (Normal mode, 100% opacity)
They can be made partialy transparent (Normal mode, 50% opacity)
We can use layers to alter the color of the layer(s) under them (Color mode, 100% opacity):
I put up some more examples here
I hope this helps!
I'm sorry if this assignment hasn't turned out very well. I'll try to pick a better assignment for next week!
The assignment was meant to encompass more than duplicating a layer, modifiying it and then blending it with the original image.
For example, starting with this:
Add a solid color fill layer and change the blending mode to Color Burn:
I got this:
Sorry to be so basic, but I can't figure out how to get a solid color fill area.
I went to bed around 7 or 8 this AM, and I won't be doing that anymore for awhile, but for the last few days, I have tried to get my bucket thingy to work, and I can't.
So last night, morning, I got off the computer, went and sat down on the couch with all 6 books, and decided it would be easy to find the answer.
I fell asleep, but before that, I had gone through several books without getting the answer, it is like the authors know, so they think we know.
And they say something like you did.
Or they say to use the bucket and change the color.
But I can't figure out how to use the bucket. You and I know that I could find out, probably, with much more research, but could you just explain it gently, as I have to play tennis the next three mornings, and I am responsible for the whole team for the next three weeks. I can't take hours to research, and I am going to be so far behind, etc.
I know it is soooooooo basic. I don't remember what else you said after we got the solid fill, as I already knew I couldn't do that, but could you explain what else we were supposed to do, something with "burn" in it, or something.
It was just like one sentence. Please.
ginger (I am using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2)
Here is a step by step. Let me know if you're having trouble with anything.
Step 1) I open up the image in photoshp.
a) Using the Paint Bucket Tool
Let me know if you have any questions!
Here is the original
This one is using the overlay
Which didnt seem to do that much in this case
This was the vivid light
I think this was color
And this one was difference
I thought this one was interesting.
Eric, You helped me, the only thing you forgot to tell me was which image to click on. So elementary. I used the alt and backspace keys. It worked, I despaired of ever using the bucket, but accidentally at some point I accidentally clicked on the BIG image on the screen and it worked, so I pulled out a photo I took yesterday. It is sweetbaskets that the sea island women sell, it is a stand with lots of them. I picked a kind of gold. Did the color burn, lowered the percentage a smidgen, framed it, and here it is. hehe. Thanks so much.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
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Before
After
Before, and I like it then, too.
After, a layer of sunset?
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Frames are very easy to do. My frame was a commercial plugin from Extensis (www.extensis.com). However, before I had this, I made all my frames. I have taken one of your photos to use as an example.
Photoshop Elements has most of the features of Photoshop. Hopefully what I'm about to describe to you can be done on Elements. If it can't, there is always a plan B. Many tasks can be done more than one way in Photoshop/Elements.
1. Open you photo and copy the Background layer (Ctrl-J). What we are going to do can't be done on the background layer.
2. Create a new layer (Ctrl_Shft-N).
3. Select White as your foreground color and fill the layer (Alt-BackSpace). Don't worry that everything has gone white. Just drag the white-filled layer below the copied image layer. Now you should temporarily see no white at all, just the photo.
4. Now we need to make the shape of the frame. First, click on the copied picture layer. Now, use a selection tool such as the Rectangular Marquee Tool or the Lasso (these are the ones I used for the photos below) and drag a "frame".
5. Here's the command that I hope is in Elements. Layer->Adjustment Layer->Reveal Selection. Now you should have a white border around the picture. Look at your layer. It now has a little black and white frame just to the right of the picture thumbnail. This is a layer mask. Everything that we do from here on is to the layer mask, not the photo.
6. Click on the layer mask. Select Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur. Use enough blur to soften the edge of the frame. You now have a perfectly acceptable frame, but let's do a bit more!
7. Run any other filter you would like from Filter->Brush Strokes or Filter->Distort, etc. These filters will jazz up your frame (I will decribe the ones I used with each photo). It's not important which one you use. Try anyone you want and see what happens.
8. Voila! Custom Frames!
Here's the 2 I did:
For this one I used the Rectangular Marquee tool, Gaussian Blur at about 3-4, Ocean Ripple filter (Filter->Distort->Ocean Ripple Ripple size 1, Magnitude 4)
For this picture I used the lasso and made a loopy selection for the "frame". The filter used was Filters->Brush Strokes->Sprayed Strokes (length 12 radius 7, direction right Diagonal).
So the trick to frames is to add a layer mask, blur it a bit, and run a filter for taste. This is just the start, but this should keep you going for a quite a while.
Happy framing
Brad
www.digismile.ca
As usual, I did a layer mask. But I kinda like the change to this shot.
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