Alison
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Alison Excell
Canada
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Alison Pollini
United States
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alison naylor
United Kingdom
377 creative works found
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10 -15 min sketch, charcoal on paper
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This ‘family’ of Cacti at Leicester Botantic gardens look like a little tribe of Mere cats; or their tombs…
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The Smudge Tool
by Alison JohnstonThe smudge tool doesn’t sound like a terribly exciting tool, something that you could have some fun with – but it can be and we’re going …
The smudge tool doesn’t sound like a terribly exciting tool, something that you could have some fun with – but it can be and we’re going to look at one way in this tutorial. This tutorial is going to involve the use of the pen tool, but it will be painless :-) The first thing that you will need to do is create a new document, I have used 800×600 with a black background. Next you will need to create a new layer above the background layer by clicking on the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and then select your elliptical marquee tool and draw out a small circle similar to the one below, holding down the alt + shift keys. Before deselecting the marching ants, go to the gradient tool and pick a gradient from the drop down menu, I’ve used the ‘copper’ gradient. Make sure you are using a linear gradient, and hold down your shift key while dragging from the top to the bottom of the circle – you can deselect the marching ants. You can go ahead and duplicate the small circle by selecting your move tool then holding down the Alt + Ctrl keys (this will copy and drop the copy onto a new layer), drag a little way then hold down your shift key as well and this will constrain the down movement. Next you’re going to grab the pen tool, and, starting from the centre of the top most circle, click a point then move across and click and drag another point. You will have to reduce the size of your image for this, but keep the canvas larger because you will have to click the final part of the path outside of the image. Go to your paths palette, which should be default with your layers and channels palette, if it isn’t go to Window>Paths – and at the bottom on that palette click on the ‘create new path’ icon. Go back to your tools palette and choose your pen tool again, click on the centre of the next circle and do something similar to the above, but change the direction a little. Repeat this for the other 2 remaining circles. The original path will be called ‘work path’ and then the rest will be called ‘1, 2, 3’ – you will need to line up the corresponding layer in the layers palette in one of the future steps, but first we have to go and choose a hard edge tip for the smudge tool. Click on the smudge tool and get a size similar to the one in the image below. I’ve made the circles and brush size bigger than I normally would for the sake of visibility. Depending on what you were going to do with this technique, all things can be changed. With the smudge tool selected, click on the first layer in the layers palette, then go to the paths palette and click on the ‘work path’ layer, then right click on this choose ‘stroke path’ from the fly out menu – a small dialogue will appear and ‘smudge’ should already be selected, but if it isn’t choose ‘smudge’ from the drop down menu. Click OK and you should have something similar to the next image. You can go to your paths palette now and drag the path you just stroked to the little bin icon at the bottom of the palette. Go to the next layer up the stack in your layers palette, make sure the smudge tool is still selected (it should be), go to your paths palette and click on the corresponding path in there, then at the bottom of the paths palette click on the small ‘stroke path with brush’ icon (second from the left) Continue to do this until the remaining paths are completed. Depending on the gradient you used and the size of the circles and brush size, your image might look something similar to the one below. Go ahead now and merge the 4 stroked layers in your layers palette to 1 layer. Next, press Ctrl + T on your keyboard to bring up the Transform tool, right click inside this and select ‘distort’. You can do something similar to the image below if you like, but I would suggest that you go to Layer>Matting>Defringe after you distort the selection – I used a 10 pixel radius on this particular image. From here you can go ahead and do a multitude of different things. Change the background and experiment with blend modes. Use the plastic wrap filter, or give the image a drop shadow then place the drop shadow on its own layer and blur it. You don’t even have to use 4 of these pipe effects. On the image below I changed the b/ground to blue with a radial gradient, and changed the blend mode to overlay. I then used the FX to give the pipes an outer glow by changing the glow colour to white, a blend mode of ‘Linear Dodge (Add) with an opacity of 50% Technique set to softer and a spread of 90%. Try out different things and see what you can come up with, but most of all – have fun!
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Alison. my friend/ex-girlfriend. / 2007 / 8.5×11 ballpoint pen and prismacolor marker on 11×14 bristol.
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Part of a calendar design project: APRIL
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Playing with filters in Photoshop again.
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This started out as a photograph of a dead flower in my garden. Used some standard filters in Photoshop to change it to this.
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This set out it’s life as a Magnolia flower photograph, used some filters in Photoshop to make a kind of abstract image.
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I think it’s a Magnolia flower, that’s what I call them anyway. Little bit of Photoshop as well :) Thanks to Lorraine for pointing out that this is not a Magnolia, it’s a Hibiscus.
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What I was trying to do didn’t quite work out, but I liked this anyway.
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Bleach Bypass Effect In Photoshop
by Alison JohnstonThe bleach bypass effect seems to be all the rage at the moment. The effect is very popular in movies, and is an effect achieved on film…
The bleach bypass effect seems to be all the rage at the moment. The effect is very popular in movies, and is an effect achieved on film by skipping the bleaching while processing color film, leaving the silver on the negative. The end result is an image with high contrast, graininess, and reduced saturation. I’d like to thank Gracey over at the Pull Apart Art Group for letting me use the image below in this tutorial. I’ve added a comparison image below so you can see the end result, and below that is the start image. The adjustments used here are relevant to this image only, but it is all about personal taste as well and the image you are using. Duplicate the b/ground and change the blend mode of the duplicated layer to Overlay. Open up a Hue/Sat adjustment layer and take the saturation down to -65. You should end up with the image below. Open a levels adjustment layer and pull the black slider in till it reads 20 and move the middle slider to the left till it reads 1.30 Open a curves adjustment layer, I used the Linear Contrast preset, the image below will show you that if you have an earlier version of Photoshop. At this point I did another Hue/Sat adjustment and increased the saturation on the reds +50, greens +30, yellows +65 and cyans +15 – totally optional part of this tutorial. the image below will give you an idea of where the image is at. Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E to stamp visible and then duplicate the layer by pressing Ctrl + J on the keyboard. Go to Filer>Noise>Add Noise and on this image I used a very small setting – 2%, Uniform, Monochromatic and took the layer opacity down to 50%. Duplicate the layer by pressing Ctrl + J on the keyboard, change the blend mode to Overlay and then take the layer opacity down to about 25%. That final step is optional. Below is the final image. Have fun!
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Made in Photoshop …..
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This is the same image as the previous one, but has had the Silver Efex Pro preset Antique Plate effect applied.
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The boys dragged me down the Basin tonight so they could do a little fishing.
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I always call it Caves Beach and it isn’t, so I put the correct spelling in the title :-) Very hot today, took the boys + friends out to Caves – the storm clouds rolled in but we didn’t get a great deal of relief.
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It is quite a long walk back up to the car park from Cave Beach. This image was taken as we were leaving Caves this afternoon about 6.00pm. There is a camping area between the car park and the beach with loos and a shower block. It always seems to be busy at the weekend and during the school hols.
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Standing atop the sand dunes at Caves to get a photo of the eastern end of the beach. We’re allowed to play on the dunes again now they have regenerated. This is the best they have looked for a long, long time and hopefully they will continue to flourish.
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It was pretty hot today and one of the baby (Juveniles now I suppose) butcherbirds was taking a dip in the drinking water. Couldn’t get to the camera quickly enough for bathtime, but made it for the sun drying. Taken through the window of the boys room.
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Bherwerre Beach Sunset
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Nature does a good job of creating the sunset and then framing it :-)
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