Bokeh Text - Search for your own 'bokeh texture' and use a different font.
Creating Shiny, Chrome Text You'll need your own simple shape/image that is removed from a background, or you can type some text, right-click on the text layer's name, and convert to shape.
Creating a Textured Letterpress Design - NOTE: In photoshop, you won't find the exact typefaces and shapes used in this tutorial; use other ones!
Creating a Brushed Metal Texture
Using Gradient Maps to REcolor Photos
Blending Modes
Blending Modes in Photoshop - a youtube breakdown that quickly shows you how these modes work.
What YOU need to know about blending modes:
- They are broken into five major groups: normal, darken, lighten, contrast, inversion, and components
- The modes specify how content in one layer will interact with content in the layers beneath it.
- The modes are the keys to how layer styles work (the FX button)
- The modes are a great way to add texture via a 'texture' image, contrast, or lighten/darken parts of an image.
- Using the modes often involves 'painting' solid colors in a blank layer above actual images or other objects.
- Adding a 50% gray 'overlay' layer above a photo, and then painting lighter and darker in that layer is a non-destructive means of 'dodging' and 'burning.'
- for best effect, paint the 'lighter' parts in one layer, and the 'darker' in another.
- Adding a solid color (as in some version of red, green, blue, etc) and then changing to a difference/exclusion mode can create a 'vintage' look.
- You can change the blend modes' intensity via an opacity adjustment.
What we're doing on October 28
- Downloading a landscape photo of at least 1920x1080 dimensions
- Using a lighter 'dodge' and darker 'burn' layer to bring out details in an image, painting with the regular brush tool to do so.
Adobe Tutorial - Drawing Shapes - CREATE A 1920X1080 PIXEL, 300PPI, RGB DOCUMENT AND THEN SKIP TO 1:45 INTO THE VIDEO.
quick notes:
- 5:45ish - the 'caps' are the ends of lines, such as if you used the tools to draw a straight line; the 'joins' are the corners of shapes.
- 6:30 - take note of how the chain link works when you have created disproportionate sides/values.
- 7:40 - this fact confuses a lot of people, so pay close attention.
Quick Selection and Refine Edge - Youtube Video- take extra note of the 4:00-5:00 section; specifically, about bits about transparency and the oddness of the mask, as well as the 'erase refinements.'
-use the QS1 through QS4 photos at the bottom of this page to practice.