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Posted by David Peters

July 18, 2008

Do you feel like creating abstract art with photoshop? Well here are some simple steps to create an oreintal flower. Create a new file with dimensions 600×600 and 72 dpi and paint it with the color ffbe00.Using the drawing instrument, draw the pattern of white color it will look like a large apostraphe. Then choosing the function Free Transform turn around the pattern’s element horizontally. Turning on 90 degrees around the pattern’s axe, set it out. Using the same instrument, continue creating more patterns: Using the earlier method, copy the background with the new element and using the function Free Transform turn around the pattern on 180 degrees vertically, Turning a little around the pattern’s axe, set out everything. Using the same instrument, make easy pattern and set it out. Create one more element using the same instrument and also set it out. Then copy the background again with the new pattern and use the earlier method for displaying it correctly in the pattern’s composition: Using the same instrument and the same method, draw everything. Make the upper part of the pattern. Now copy and enlarge (Free Transform) the upper petals. Place them under the entire pattern. Set out the opacity of 10% in the backgrounds’ window. Now copy and transform on 180 degrees everything except the upper part of the figure and enlarge it a little. Set out the opacity on 33% like in the picture.

Creating a flame that moves is quite fun, in fact all animated gifs are fun to create and watch. To make a moving flame start by creating a new document. Load a candle or something with a flame into this document. ( I used this one )The candle should be in a single layer. To create the flame create a new layer.Draw with a brush a flame with a brown or black color.Duplicate the layer (Layer-> Duplicate Layer)Now use: Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur and Filter->Blur-> Motion blur. Use this filters several times for your flame. Create a new layer, again. Filter-> Render-> Clouds. Change the ‘Blend mode’ from ‘normal’ to ‘Color Dodge’.

The basics of photoshop are extremely important to photoshop itself. Photoshop comes with a number of Auto correction features that can fix most common problems. Unless I am 100% happy with images I run most images through these to see if they can be improved. Open an image in Photoshop and then go to Image > Adjustments. You will see three Auto correction options: Auto levels The Auto Levels command automatically adjusts the black point and white point in an image. Basically this increases the contrast of the image in proportion to the colour channels in the picture. Auto contrast This automatically adjusts the contrast without looking at the colour channels Auto color This searches the images and corrects common colour issues. It identifies shadows midtones and highlights, neutralising midtones and cliping shadows and highlights. It can have the effect of washing an image out but generally it does a good job You can see in the following example that good results can be achieved using these tools.Fine tuning: The Auto-correction tools also allow you to fine tune what they have done. Once you have completed the auto-correction you can add an adjustment layer. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer. You can choose to target many different aspects of the image. Which one(s) you choose to use will depend on the image has come out. Many other options Photoshop offers you hundereds of ways to improve the quality of images. Unless I’m doing some artworking I normally find that the Auto correction tools and a few adjustment layers will do the trick. If not you can explore the many options available under Image > Adjustments. The options are too many to list here but they are worth exploring!

If you upgrade your photoshop you have to know how to access these brushes: To use some of these new brushes, simply select you brush tool in the tools palette. Once you have selected the tool, you can change the shape of the brush in the upper options palette. There are plenty of stock brushes that Photoshop ships with. You can add more by downloading them from the web (there are a few really good brush makers out there), or you can use the remaining stock brushes with photoshop. In you options palette, click on the symbol for the brush shape you are currently using. This will create a dialog box with a scroll box full of different brush shapes. To add brushes, click the arrow in the upper right corner of the dialog box. Select “Load Brushes”, browse until you find the brushes you want and append them to your set. Below is a look at the brushes dialog box within Mac OS X. Play around with it and see what you come up with. The brushes palette even allows you the option of changing the size of custom brushes. This feature is really a time-saver. Simply create one brush in any size, and then resize it to fit whatever you are working on. To find free brushes out on the net, you can do a search for “Photoshop Brushes” in your favorite search engine (Google is the best for my money). Once you download them, simply load them into your brushes palette (as in the last paragraph), and voila, instant brushes.

Sometimes you wanted that cool yellow moon effect, well its easy enough to turn a full moon into a harvest moon. Open an image of a normal looking moon in Photoshop.Select the Eliptical Marquee tool. Create a perfect circle around the moon. Goto Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. This will turn the moon to black and white. Goto Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the Yellow slider to the left to give the moon a yellowish color. Click OK. Create a new layer. Make sure the circle selection is still there. Use the Paint Bucket tool and fill the circle selection with a bright yellow. Change the layer mode for the yellow circle layer to “Multiply”. Right click the Yellow Circle layer from the layers palette. Choose “Blending Options” from the pop-up list. Set the properties for “Outer Glow”. Click OK and you should now have your Harvest Moon.

When using photoshop it can be quite amusing to mess around with all the settings. One fun idea is to create a honeycomb that is quite realistic. Start by taking a new file of 400 pixels 400 pixels of resolution 72 dpi in the RBG mode Go to the Filter>Render>Clouds. Then go to the Filter>Stained Glass use these settings. And now go to Filter>Artistic>Plastic Wrap use the following settings. Now add some color press Cntl+U use these settings. Your image should be look like this. And now double click on your background layer then cilick ok as shown image below. Make the copy of layer1. And now finally you can change the Blending Mode Linear Burn.

Ever wondered how to create an oil painting effect to a picture, well heres how: Click on Filter > Distort > Glass and apply the following settings to your photograph. Distortion — 2 Smoothness — 5 Texture — Canvas Scaling: — 75% Next, click on Filter > Artistic > Paint Daubs and apply the following settings to your photograph. Brush Size — 2 Sharpness — 4 Brush Type — Simple Go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Angled Strokes and apply the following settings to your photograph. Direction Balance — 18 Stroke Length — 4 Sharpness — 2 In this last step, you want to click on Filter > Texture > Texturizer and apply the following settings to your photograph. This creates the appearance that your painting was done on canvas. To do this, we’re going to go: Texture — Canvas Scaling — 65% Relief — 6 Light Direction — Top Right. Since every photograph is different, you can slightly tweak the Photoshop filter settings above to suit your photograph or taste.

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