Adobe Photoshop and CS

[Cinbride]

Can someone tell me or point a good tut for bohek overlay

and
tell me how to adjust my photos coloring either to sepia or pastels...

I don't know why I'm having such a hard time w/ these two things lol.

Also when you do an overlay how can you keep it (the pattern) off the subject. thank you.

 

[photo_chick]

Ok.. bokeh... you're trying to blur your background, showing more depth of field? This can be difficult to do and have it look really good. Google for it, but don't look under bokeh.

I can sum up a simple procedure. Though it's never as simple as it sounds.

Copy your image layer
Apply a blur
Make sure that you clone the background area into the subject area so that you don't end up with a blurred edge to your subject.
Apply a layer mask and mask off so the subject is sharp.

You really, really need a pen tablet to make it look good. Doing this with a mouse is like drawing with a bar of soap.


To adjust to sepia or pastels just use a layer adjustment for what you want.

Use a layer mask if you want to keep something jsut on one area of an image.

If you're new to Photoshop go to www.thepineerwoman.com and download her free actions. They're fun to get your feet wet, and you can look at the steps used to achieve the effect and learn some that way. Another place that has free actions and some tutorials is Coffee Shop

 

[Cinbride]

thanks, I finally figured out the sepia. I guess I was looking for it to be more complex than it was.

I've seen overlays where there is a bunch of circles/orbs. Trying to find that. I've seen the mono.. pattern layer and it doesn't seem to be what I am looking for. (also how do you change the color of the overlays to be transparent?) Say I want the circles but I don't want them colored, I want them to be the same as the picture, like a bubble. Does that make sense. (I've used the paint brush to try and get the effect; but still want transparent) OH and how do I get them so they are not on my subject just on the background.

I've used photoshop, for things like cutting an image and pasting onto another and a few other things. I have her site, so when I get more time I'll check in out more. (the food misdirected me lol)

I'm going to try and figure out how to make a picture look more watercolored. Still trying to find a tut for that.

I've decided, I can't just look at the computer and read. Everytime I find something I like I make myself little notes on how to do it.

thanks

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

I am a fairly new user of PSE8 and I've run into a little conundrum. I took a photo of Walt's office in One Man's Dream and totally blew the shot. Fortunately, I was shooting in RAW and was able to recover quite a bit. Unfortunately, I have a pink window reflection in the lower right quadrant. I need help removing that reflection/tint. Can someone point me in the right direction. I do have Kelby's book, but I'm having difficulty finding the right section. I haven't gotten to the point of being proficient in PP yet, but I'm working on it. Thanks for any help. I've attached the image so you can see what I'm talking about.

 

[Docarino]

I'm hardly a photoshop expert and I'm sure that there is a better, more efficient way to do this but here's what I did (I have CS4, not sure what features are available in PSE8 but I hope all these features are). I created a saturation layer, completely desaturated the magenta channel and moderately desaturated the red channel. I then created a mask and applied the desaturation just to the reflection area. The chair legs were a little too desaturated so I used a combination of the color replacement tool and the clone stamp to bring back some color to the chair legs. Then I used a combination of the clone stamp and the healing brush to blend together the line where the reflection was. This was done really quickly and could be done a lot cleaner, you can still see the reflection line some, but you get the idea. Looking at it now, I brought the lighter gray color up to blend in the chair but if I had to do it again, I would bring the darker color down and blend it a little better.

Again, I'm not sure if all these options are available in PSE8- hopefully, they are, if not, maybe it will point you in the right direction.

Another, simpler, option would be to crop it a little more. A tighter crop would get rid of most of the magenta and you'd lose the counter in the bottom left but that area is not adding much to the picture.

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

Thank you very much, it looks a whole lot better. You are much better at PP than I am! I thought of cropping, but I thought I would lose too much of the office. Again thanks.

 

[VVFF]

Always good to practice your editing

This is with multiple masked layers, some changing local color balance and others changing overall image or local curves.

 

[Docarino]

Always good to practice your editing

This is with multiple masked layers, some changing local color balance and others changing overall image or local curves.

Oh, I didn't think about a local curve adjustment- great idea. I love to hear how people process images; it's so helpful for learning and fine tuning workflow.

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

Always good to practice your editing

This is with multiple masked layers, some changing local color balance and others changing overall image or local curves.

I want to thank you both for your help. To go from the original to this is just incredible. This was the original.

You've inspired me to work harder to perfect my PP skills, thank you!

 

[webejoys]

Hi guys!

I have a problem and was hoping you guys could help.

My midterm project for my photoshop class is to take a portrait of one of my classmates and add 10 layers to the image. 6 six of those layers are to be directed toward the face.

This is what I have done so far...

Layer 1:
I have isolated the eyes and applied a soft light blend mode to emphasize the color.

Layer 2:
I have isolated the teeth and applied a lighten blend mode to make them pearly white.

Layer 3:
I have used the spot healing brush tool to hide any imperfections.

Layer 4:
Now I used the healing brush tool to do the same.
(The teacher never specified how we were to use the layers!)

That leaves me with 2 more layers to go... Any thoughts?

I just started this class a few weeks ago and have never had any experience with photoshop. Might you guys be able to help? I just need 2 more effects I can apply to the image so I can complete the 6. The simpler the better!

As for the other 4 layers I figure I could just do this...http://www.photoshopbox.com/photo-effects/high-contrast-dreamy-effect.html

I would post her pic but I'm sure she wouldn't approve.

Thanks,
Lexy

 

[disneyboy2003]

A couple ideas come to mind:

A layer that softens the skin. You can probably select just the skin (not the eyes or mouth), feather the selection, copy it into its own separate layer, and then apply a small amount of Gaussian blur. It can give a nice softening effect to the skin and might take away some wrinkles. If you do too much Gaussian blur, then it can look plastic-y & fake. You can adjust the layer opacity as needed.

A layer that sharpens the eyes. Select only the eyes, feather the selection, copy the eyes into its own separate layer, and then apply a judicious amount of sharpening. People are typically drawn to a subject's eyes.

If you're working on eyes, you can also create a layer to darken the pupils. Make them really black.

If your subject doesn't already have "catch lights" in her eyes, you can add those in artificially, too.

If your subject needs or wants alluring eyelashes, you can download some Photoshop eyelashes from the Internet, upload them into Photoshop as a "brush", and then apply the new eyelashes onto your subject. Do an "Edit > Free Transform" on those eyelashes so that they fit exactly onto your subject's eyes.

Does your subject need redder, more alluring lips? You can select the subject's lips, feather the selection, and copy the lips onto a separate layer. Then do something to the color of the lips...perhaps increase the red saturation as an adjustment layer?

Just a few ideas. Actually, this reminds me of a "disturbing" YouTube video that might help you with your midterm Photoshop project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U&feature=related

Hope that helps!

 

[webejoys]

Wow, those suggestions are great! Thank you very much. Just out of curiosity, how do you feather a selection? It's a very short class and we've only covered the basics from the CS4 classroom in a book. We move onto Illustrator next week.

 

[disneyboy2003]

Wow, those suggestions are great! Thank you very much. Just out of curiosity, how do you feather a selection? It's a very short class and we've only covered the basics from the CS4 classroom in a book. We move onto Illustrator next week.

I use Photoshop CS5, so I hope it's the same instructions for CS4.

Once you have the selection, go to "Select > Modify > Feather..."

Since you're using Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book, looks like the instructions to feather a selection in CS4 are on page 94. Here's the link to page 94 on Google Books (link).

Feathering a selection blurs the edges of a selection. That way, any adjustments that you make to the selection will gradually fade / transition along the feathered edges.

Hope that helps!

 

[webejoys]

Thanks! I ended up searching for it on google and found a neat tutorial. I didn't know you could do that! The power of the internet!

And now for the good news...

I got a 110%!

Thank you !!!

Lexy

 

[hiwaygal]

Hi!

I am in need of a photoshop edit of a picture of my dog. She passed away last week and I'm making a gift for my vet to thank him and his staff for all they did to help her.

The picture is attached and I would like the eyes fixed:

If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it!!!

 

[MICKEY88]

a few quick edits..

 

[hiwaygal]

OMG!

You are amazing!

I love them!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

 

[MICKEY88]

you are welcome, if you'd like any with a different color background let me know and I'll see what I can do

 

[Twoboysnmygirl]

I'm learning it slowly, but I swear it's a ridiculously hard learning curve for me. I've used Nikon Capture NX2 (still using it with photoshop) for almost 2 years and Photoshop seems SO much more complicated, I suppose since there are so many options.

In any case, I'm learning slowly, working on eyes is one of the things I've been doing, but there's something I haven't figured out if photoshop can do...can you get that glossy/shiny effect for shots in PS? Bricker, your shots have it a lot, is that from PS or Topaz? Just wondering b/c I've done tutorial searches and can't seem to find anything but glossy/shiny letters and how to make them, which isn't what I'm looking for. It's a wet/glossy look.

 

[mrcricket]

I'm learning it slowly, but I swear it's a ridiculously hard learning curve for me. I've used Nikon Capture NX2 (still using it with photoshop) for almost 2 years and Photoshop seems SO much more complicated, I suppose since there are so many options.

In any case, I'm learning slowly, working on eyes is one of the things I've been doing, but there's something I haven't figured out if photoshop can do...can you get that glossy/shiny effect for shots in PS? Bricker, your shots have it a lot, is that from PS or Topaz? Just wondering b/c I've done tutorial searches and can't seem to find anything but glossy/shiny letters and how to make them, which isn't what I'm looking for. It's a wet/glossy look.

I think it's great that you are learning Photoshop. It's a very powerful program. With that said, I do 95% of my developing in Lightroom, including things like eyes. What I do is increase sharpening dramatically just on the eyes. You could do this in Photoshop, but you want to use layers as Photoshop is a destructive editing program. Lightroom is non-destructive. Which means your original isn't touched and you can always revert back if you need to.

If you really want to learn Photoshop, I suggest you head over to Kelby Training. It's one of the premiere on-line Photoshop education resources on the net.

Good luck.