I think it doesn't hurt to play with something a lot because you really learn the intricacies of it and it will just slip in when you need it, down the track.
I did not keep any of the psd files for the icons for this round. They were all last minute because there were so few entries and I wanted to help make the last round of the year happen. I think I knocked them out in forty minutes or so - way quick for me. I already had the caps in my Buffy folder from other projects I'd worked on.
I've written a little of the why for the icons on my latest post but basically I picked Buffy because starry_night's samples were mostly Buffy and I thought I would do a little retrospective on how she changed through the seasons and maybe shock people into remembering that I can do other things beside Spike, lol.
Photoshop does not have a bokeh filter as such. I used textures and in No 3, I've masked the bokeh texture a little to fit around her. Also Photoshop allows you to change how each layer looks in a piece by altering how the tones, colours and lights in the layer are shown and that makes blending such a wonderful thing. You can also create a bokeh effect using the lights in an image by applying filters, blurring them, masking them, changing the mode on the filter layer. Photoshop comes with a nice suite of filters then allows you endless options to modify them.
Photoshop allows excellent filtering for depth of colour and I use a lot of gradient maps (thanks to chasingdemons introducing them to me) which really let you 'pop' colours. You can also get in and alter the tone, saturation and light of each colour channel several ways in Photoshop, to bring out your colours or make them more subtle.
The free editors online are amazing and let you do a lot of things but Photoshop allows you to get more in depth, make sublte changes, mask out parts of layers and then edit those masks for further changes. It does not give you the wonderful effects and filters but it does let you create them yourself and alter them as much as your little heart desires.
The clarity in #11. I started with a big image at 72 dpi. I changed the dpi to 300 which reduces the file dimensions and gives you a lot of pixels in a smaller area to play with. Photoshop has wonderful sharpening tools like high pass (which I use constantly), Unsharp mask, an adjustable sharpen tool (which I also use a lot), filters to correct camera errors and so forth. I sharpen last thing when the image is at 100%. I think I laid a gradient map over that one to tweak the colours and played a little with a levels layer to bring up the contrasts.
Congratulations on your haul this round. Your blending and lighting is wonderful.
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I did not keep any of the psd files for the icons for this round. They were all last minute because there were so few entries and I wanted to help make the last round of the year happen. I think I knocked them out in forty minutes or so - way quick for me. I already had the caps in my Buffy folder from other projects I'd worked on.
I've written a little of the why for the icons on my latest post but basically I picked Buffy because starry_night's samples were mostly Buffy and I thought I would do a little retrospective on how she changed through the seasons and maybe shock people into remembering that I can do other things beside Spike, lol.
Photoshop does not have a bokeh filter as such. I used textures and in No 3, I've masked the bokeh texture a little to fit around her. Also Photoshop allows you to change how each layer looks in a piece by altering how the tones, colours and lights in the layer are shown and that makes blending such a wonderful thing. You can also create a bokeh effect using the lights in an image by applying filters, blurring them, masking them, changing the mode on the filter layer. Photoshop comes with a nice suite of filters then allows you endless options to modify them.
Photoshop allows excellent filtering for depth of colour and I use a lot of gradient maps (thanks to chasingdemons introducing them to me) which really let you 'pop' colours. You can also get in and alter the tone, saturation and light of each colour channel several ways in Photoshop, to bring out your colours or make them more subtle.
The free editors online are amazing and let you do a lot of things but Photoshop allows you to get more in depth, make sublte changes, mask out parts of layers and then edit those masks for further changes. It does not give you the wonderful effects and filters but it does let you create them yourself and alter them as much as your little heart desires.
The clarity in #11. I started with a big image at 72 dpi. I changed the dpi to 300 which reduces the file dimensions and gives you a lot of pixels in a smaller area to play with. Photoshop has wonderful sharpening tools like high pass (which I use constantly), Unsharp mask, an adjustable sharpen tool (which I also use a lot), filters to correct camera errors and so forth. I sharpen last thing when the image is at 100%. I think I laid a gradient map over that one to tweak the colours and played a little with a levels layer to bring up the contrasts.
Congratulations on your haul this round. Your blending and lighting is wonderful.