Photoshop Artistic Styles 2

Classical Echoes, Avant-Garde, Lemography

Photoshop CS

Digital Design 1

 

Classical Echoes

 

1.      Find graphics or images that will be easily removed from their background. You will need at least 3 different graphics or images.

2.      You will need to use one of several techniques to remove the graphic or image from itŐs background. You may use the lasso, magnetic lasso, Filter>Extract, eraser tool, etc. Once you have the graphic or image by itself, move it to a new document. Do this with all of the images/graphics you have chosen.

 

3.      Once the graphics/images are on the new document, to each image/graphic:

         Filter>Noise>Median – choose a small number, you donŐt want the image to be a blob.

         Filter>Stylize>Find Edges

         Click the Add a layer style icon at the bottom of the layers palette, select Color Overlay.

You may choose any color, (red was used for this project) but set the blending mode to Multiply to allow the lines to show through.

 

4.      Add a new layer.

Using the lasso tool, select the portion of the layer you want to represent the sky layer. You want to use the lasso tool because you donŐt want a straight edge. Again you may choose any colors, but be sure the foreground and background colors of two shades of the same color. Go to Filter>Render>Clouds. You can repeat this Command+F keys if you donŐt like the cloud pattern.

 

Go to Select (top menu), and select inverse. Change the foreground and background to a different color again choosing two shades of the same color. Filter>Render>Clouds to apply the same effect.

 

5.      Move this layer to below the imagesŐ layers.

 

 

Avant-Garde

1.      Open a photo to edit. Works best with an object on a plain background. Change the image to black and white (grayscale) by going to Image>Adjustments>Channel Mixer and clicking on the monochrome check box.

 

 

2.      To add more contrast to the image, go to the layers palette and select the Create New Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the palette (black and white circle icon) and select Curves. Create an ŇSÓ shape as shown.

 

3.      To add tonal reversal, again click on the Create New Adjustment Layer icon on the layers palette as you did in the previous step and again select Curves. This time you will adjust the line to form the shape similar to a ŇWÓ. See the image below.

 

4.      To mimic a gentle, warm tone of an avante-garde print, click again on the Create a New Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and select Curves again. This time you will focus on two different channels, the red and the blue. See images below, but you may need to adjust as needed for the image you chose. The image should take on a golden tone.

 

 

5.      Click on the original image layer (usually background layer). Use Cmd+Option+J to copy the layer. This layer will be used to add the dark halo, so you should name the layer halo and set the blending mode to Multiply.

 

6.      Drag the Halo layer up to just below the top layer in the layer stack.

 

7.      You will now make the Halo layer into a line drawing by going to Image>Adjustments>Threshold. You want the object to be solid black and white. See the setting below, but you may want to adjust as needed to get the desired results. Then apply a Gaussian blur with a radius of 1. Go to filter>blur>Gaussian blur.

 

8.      Use the Magic Wand to delete any white from the image on the Halo layer. You may need to click the eye icons on the layers palette in order to see if you have deleted all extraneous white areas of the image.

 

9.      Reduce the Fill Opacity (different from regular opacity) of the Halo layer to 0%.

 

10.    Click the Add a Layer Style icon at the bottom of the layers palette and select outer glow. Set the blending mode to Multiply and the color to black, then experiment with the Spread, Size, and Range sliders to create a smooth glow around the object.

 

Save the final product as a jpeg using the proper naming scheme and place in the drop box.

 

Lemography

 

1.            Open a photo to edit.

2.            Create a new layer and select the new layer.

3.            Use the Lasso tool and create an oval selection. It doesn't have to be perfect.

4.            Inverse the selection (Select> Inverse or Shift+Cmd+I).

5.            Press Shift+Backspace to open the Fill tool. In the Fill tool, set the contents to Black and click OK.

6.            Deselect (Select> Deselect or Cmd+D).

7.            Open the Gaussian Blur filter tool (Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur). In the Gaussian Blur window, ensure that the Preview checkbox is checked and adjust the Radius to blur the edges so that a vignette is created. You could go as high as 40.

8.            Reduce the opacity a little. An opacity around 75% should produce good.

9.            Inside the Channels pallet (Window> Channels), select the red channel.

10.        With the red channel selected, use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) and increase the contrast. The higher you set the contrast, the stronger the color effect will be. I found that increasing the contrast by 50 produced the most realistic results.

11.        Now select the green channel and use the Brightness/Contrast tool (Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast) to increase the contrast by the same amount you did in the previous step.

12.        Select back the RGB channel. Go to the layers palette.

13.        Add a new fill or adjustment layer. (bottom of layers palette). Select the Gradient Map. Choose your own gradient. Reduce the opacity by 50% or more.

14.        Save as a jpeg and put into the dropbox.