Monday, March 28, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Some Photographers
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Vintage Photo Effect
To create a vintage effect on a desired photo :
1. Photo filter adjustment layer: add yellow overlay.
Adjustment panel (right side of screen), click on the photo filter adjustment icon.
- Able to choose from a variety of different filters: choose yellow
- Change density to about 75%.
- Return to adjustment layer.
2. Add levels adjustment: want the image to look flatter and a little washed out.
- Click levels icon: drag mid-tone slider to somewhere between 1.5 and 1.6.
- Back to adjustment panel.
3. Add another adjustment layer: want to drain some of the color from the image.
- Click Hue\Saturation icon: drag saturation slider to left, anywhere between -20 and -40
4. In the layers panel: move photo filter adjustment layer to the top of the layers panel, this will keep the changes made to the mid-tones and hue\saturation layers from affecting the yellow filter.
We can make the photo look a little more vintage by adding some noise and a darkened edge effect to the image. This can be achieved by using smart filters.
1. Click on the photo layer: we are going to convert it for smart filters first.
- Move up to the filter menu: click ‘filter menu’: click ‘convert for smart filters’.
- A dialogue box will pop up, just click ‘ok’.
2.Add noise: Click the ‘filter menu’ again.
- Click noise: click ‘add noise’.
- In the dialogue box: set the noise amount to around 4% or 6% (this is subjective so choose the amount that looks good to you).
3. Add darkened edge: Click ‘filter menu’.
- Click lens correction: click ‘custom tab’.
- Drag vignette slider all the way to the left.
- Click ‘ok’.
The opacity can be adjusted by using the blending options. Suggested to soften opacity to 75%.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Vignette in photoshop
· First you want to grab your correct style marquee.
· Next you want to drag a marquee and create the marching ants. You do want to make sure the marquee is slightly inside your image and set it where you want the vignette to begin in your photo or graphic.
· You then want to choose select on the toolbar at the top, then chose invert. This reverses the marquee.
· The second step is to right click on the marquee of the image and press feather. This brings another marquee onto the picture plane as curved shape.
· The last step is to go to Image, Adjustments, and Levels. Then take the slider toward the bottom all the way from white to black. Press enter, then command D for deselect.
· To do this for a graphic you follow the same steps, only you add a curve layer and that layer is the one you work from.
o Another way to do a vignette is to first pull up a photo, open the layers, go to curves, drag the blacks (at the bottom of the graph) over quite a ways, then drag the line down a bit (darkness doesn’t really matter. Then go to gradient and select it from dark to light, can do circular ellipse (shape of your choice), then you are just going to click in the middle of the area you want to have the “spotlight” on and drag it out. You can do it in the corner, middle, etc.
