Tutorial: Photos in a grunge look
By Dirk Metzmacher
Grunge doesn’t only refer to a style of music, it’s also a stylistic direction in image processing with Photoshop, where the image material is shown as old and dirty.
Since the program itself produces rather clean results, we need textures to give us the grime we desire. These require only a few steps to be adjusted to the grunge look.
Dirty textures:
1. Select a texture
Good textures help you to quickly and easily get a piece of „reality“ to work with. For this example we’ll use two surfaces. In addition to the brown and green tones, the „scribbles“ fit our theme perfectly. Read more »
No Comments / Published on März 17, 2010
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Tutorial: Starry Sky
By Dirk Metzmacher
If you’re somebody who doesn’t look up to the night sky very often, then you can also create stars, gas clouds and the bright band of the Milky Way in Photoshop, using nothing but a few filter combinations.
The starry sky displayed here might be a little over the top, but a photorealistic result was never the objective – we wanted a fantasy product instead. Read more »
2 Comments / Published on März 16, 2010
Tutorial: Stripe look
By Dirk Metzmacher
A mixture of illustration and photo material is a current trend in which the stripe look is used quite frequently. Usually people will direct you towards custom brushes and shapes, but actually Photoshop itself offers a number of options to generate stripes. For that we apply little used filters like „Wave“.
Filter effect
Preparation
In a new document, use the Gradient tool and the Shift key to make a gradient from the top to the bottom with the options Foreground-Background and Linear Style. The colors you choose determine the colors of the stripes which we’ll now create with the Wave filter. Read more »
1 Comments / Published on März 15, 2010
The channel trick – Selecting hair
By Dirk Metzmacher
Extracting fine hair detail from a background is one of the most tricky jobs in Photoshop. A professional way to do it takes you to the channel palette, where you prepare a mask that can be loaded as a selection. Read more »
4 Comments / Published on März 14, 2010
10 tips for Photoshop and Camera Raw – neutralize color casts
By Dirk Metzmacher
Extreme case: Snow
Even though the sun is a little lower in winter, a white snow cover will strongly reflect the light. This can quickly create a blue cast, which can be easily corrected with Photoshop or Camera Raw.
Extreme case: Candle light
If a room is only illuminated by a weak source of light, the sensor has a hard time finding a neutral grey spot, since the scene is too dark. This results in a red cast. Read more »
No Comments / Published on März 12, 2010
Texture-Pack 1
By Dirk Metzmacher
My first test with self-created, neutral textures for combinations with further elements and structures.
Not the best quality, and also not very big, but I’m sure they’ll be useful for small compositions as you can see in these preview images. Read more »
No Comments / Published on März 11, 2010
Resources I (March)
By Dirk Metzmacher
In this series we’ll show you the gems we found. Add-ons like brushes, textures or actions, good fonts, useful plugins and much more. You’re very welcome to offer your own suggestions as a commentary. I’ll add it to this list. Read more »
No Comments / Published on März 11, 2010
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