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There are several ways to do most things in Photoshop, and using the art history brush to create a painterly effect is no different. I’m…
There are several ways to do most things in Photoshop, and using the art history brush to create a painterly effect is no different. I’m going to show you ‘one’ way to do it. If you can find a really good video on the net to show you how to use the art history brush, it would be a great idea. A couple of things to remember when using the art history brush:- 1) The Brush Engine/Palette is your friend :) 2) Similar to the history brush, the art history brush needs a corresponding layer in the layers palette to the snapshot layer in the history palette. 3) It is better to slowly build up an effect than to try and slap it on all at once. 4) Remember to save your file in the .psd format often. Once you’ve initially saved it, you can just go to File>Save or Ctrl + S to update it. Before we start, lets have a look at what I mean by ‘the brush engine’ is your friend. If your brush engine/palette isn’t visible go to Window>Brushes or press F5 on the keyboard. Those familiar with the brush engine will know that it is the place to set up your chosen brush so that it does exactly what you want it to do. This can come in pretty handy when doing painterly effects. Lets have a look at setting the direction of a brush so that it will follow a chosen line and the tip will go in the correct direction. I have chosen a standard Photoshop brush for this – Autumn Leaves – I have gone through and unchecked all the default settings except smoothing, and set the spacing to 130%. In the first example I’ve drawn an S shape with the brush (on the left). You can see how the leaves have stayed in an upright position. In the second example (on the right) I have gone to Shape Dynamics>Angle Jitter>Control and chosen Direction from the drop down menu. You can see how the leaves have now followed the direction of the S shape. See image below for another area that you can fiddle around with to get some different effects for the brush. And one final thing that you can do with brushes, is to make a dual brush. Go ahead and pick a soft edged brush from your brushes, open the brush engine, pick Dual Brush from the left menu and then click through the various brushes till you get an effect in the preview window that you like. If you have a blank canvas open you can even try the brush and see what it looks like. I chose the Grass Brush to come up with the effect in the image below. You can also change the attributes of the second brush and the blend mode. Just before we get going, it is important that you build up any effect slowly/gradually. This can make painting a rather drawn out affair, but you can get some fantastic results if you’re willing to take the time. Remember that there are loads of different techniques out there for painting – choose one that suits the way you like to work – mix the different techniques together etc., example – when we finally get to the art history brush :) you will find a drop down menu where you can use the brush to Lighten, Darken etc., I choose not to work with them, I prefer to use the Dodge and Burn tools on 50% neutral grey layers set to soft light. Also remember that you can still use standard adjustments during and after to make your painting special. So lets get started. You can borrow my image of Dakota below to practise on if you like, copyright is mine etc., Before you start painting, do any necessary adjustments to the image i.e. colour correction etc., In other words, start painting with a finished image. I haven’t bothered with the start image here, I simply cropped out some of the excess trees to the right. Open the image and duplicate the layer by pressing Ctrl + J on the keyboard or dragging the layer to the create new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette. At this point you can add an effect to the duplicated layer if you want (entirely up to you). I chose Filter>Brush Strokes>Spatter with a Spray Radius of 2 and Smoothness set to 5. With the top layer active, hold down the Ctrl key and click on the create new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette – this will force the new layer, below any active layer. What we’re going to do here is set up a canvas. You don’t have to do this part if you don’t want to, but you might want to use it one day. Turn off the topmost layer and fill the blank layer with a colour of your choice. I chose a cream colour, go to Filter>Texture>Texturizer and choose Canvas – pick some settings to suit and take the opacity of the layer down to about 50%. Turn on the topmost layer again and take a snapshot of the image – in the history palette, name this layer painting/underpainting or something similar. Rename the layer in the layers palette the same thing. Once you’ve done that, click on the painting layer thumbnail in the Layers palette then Ctrl + A to select all – press the delete key to delete the contents of the layer and then press Ctrl + D to deselect. You should end up with something similar to the image below. If you made a canvas layer, click on that and then take the opacity all the way down. Click back on the painting layer and go to the side tool bar and select the Art History Brush, or you can press Y on the keyboard – if the History brush tool comes up, hold down the Shift Key and press Y again to scroll through to the Art History Brush. In the History Palette, click in the little blank square of the Painting layer to the left of the thumbnail to set this as the source. Clcik on the corresponding layer in the layers palette. Now you have to go and select a brush. Remeber the bits of information about the brush that I gave you at the beginning. There are plenty of free brushes available on the net as well. I’ve chosen a Photoshop default brush – Dry Brush. I’ve gone to the brush engine and chosen direction from the menu and turned off everything else except smoothing. You will be presented with a top toolbar – see image below. This is where you’ll choose the mode, opacity, style, area and tolerance. The settings you see in the above image, are the settings I’ve chosen to work with. Time to check – Painting layer selected in layers palette, art history brush icon in the square next to the painting snapshot in the history palette, settings for the art history brush changed to suit ….. lets begin. Short, sharp, small strokes of the mouse or pen will work the best. Go in the direction of the fur and zoom in really close to see what’s going on. If you need to scroll, hold down the spacebar and you will temporarily get the small hand icon so you can move the image. Change the size of your brush on the fly by using the left and right square bracket keys on the keyboard (situated near the P key) Left makes the brush smaller, right makes it bigger. In the image below I’ve roughly gone over the head area of the dog excluding the eye – if you click on the canvas layer you made, and return the opacity to 100% you will see what is going on without seeing the image itself. Reduce the opcity of the layer and click back on the painting layer in the layers palette. I’m not going to carry on and completey finish this image, but I do want to show you how I would go about adding shadows and highlights to the painting. Make sure you are working on the topmost layer (painting layer in this case) Hold down the Alt key and click on the create new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette. A small dialogue box will appear, choose mode>soft light and check the ‘fill will 50% neutral gray’ click OK. Duplicate that layer and name one dodging and the other burning. Choose the burn tool from the side menu bar, or click O on the keyboard and then shift + O if the burn tool (hand) doesn’t come up first. Set the Range to shadows and the Exposure to around 10%. Reference the original image to find where the darker areas are, and slowly burn them in. Use the dodge layer to gently dodge in any highlights. You can see how my layer stack would start to look I changed the brush to Watercolour small round tip to do the eye and nose area. changed the brush again to Oil medium wet flow to carry on building the effect. If you want the image to be visible on the canvas you made, you will probably have to work it more than if you don’t. I would also make some more dodging and burning layers for the eyes and a layer to create a new catchlight. I’ve loosely done over the bottom half of Dakota. You can see the beginnings of my layer palette in the image below. I would have gone on and grouped the dodging and burning layers for eye, body etc., Ignoring the anything below the head area (cos I just quickly swiped over it – that thing I told you not to do LOL), you can see how easy it is to start building a painterly effect. You would of course, take much more care and time. Have fun!
Ok – First I want to pay credit to both Susan Davies , who provided the base image of Castell…
Ok – First I want to pay credit to both Susan Davies , who provided the base image of Castell Coch and to Rose Moxon , who kindly created the 3D dragons that I used in this composition. Thank you both – I could’nt have created this without you guys. / / I used Photoshop CS2 to create this image / / I started with Susan’s image below / / / / I used a duplicate layer [made the background invisible with the eye icon in the layer palette], and used a medium hardness eraser to erase all of the backgroung behind the castle to produce the image below. / / / / Then, I had to remove all those trees from the image, that were covereing the castle. For this I used various sized, soft clone brushes and fine paintbrushes to paint back in detail that was lost due to the cloning process – Very time consuming, but also very rewarding at the end of it. The image then looked like the one below. / / / / I then wanted to place the castle onto a rock tower, so I used a shot that I took at a local beach in the summer of 2007. This rock is only about 12 ft high. / / / / I pasted this rock image onto my composition as a new layer behind the castle, then again used the eraser to remove the parts that I didnt want, until I reached the result below. / / / / I then merged these two layers and used the edit transform perspective tool to change to perspective of the image – I wanted the image to look as if I were looking up at the caste slightly and I wanted the rocks to appear large and towering. The result is below. / / / / Now for the sky – I used an image that I took of a sunset in Cameroon in November 2006 / / / / I placed this sky image behind the castle – rock layer to produce the image below. / / / / Next I worked on the sky and castle layer in turn and adjusted the colour, using edit adjustments colour balance, until I created a nice tone for each layer, which both balanced with each other. I also adjusted the exposure slightly on the sky layer to give it a bit more kick. The image now looked like the one below. / / / / I wasn’t happy with the shadows and highlights on the castle in relation to the sky, so next I worked on both layers in turn and used dodge to add highlights and burn to add dark shadows and gloomy clouds. / / / I then adjusted the levels to make the castle layer a bit darker so it blended in with the sky – the result then became my base image which you can see below. / / / / I now wanted to add atmosphere to the image, so I created a new fill layer and used a very soft brush to paint in a light green fill at about 30% opacity, covering the whole layer in one go. I added a litttle noise and changed the blend of this layer to Colour Burn. The result was a deep rich feel that you can see below. / / / / I then flattened the image and just went over it to add any final highlights and shadows with the dodge and burn tools. / / I then used two dragon images that Rose kindly created for me – you can see them below. / / / / / / I placed these images onto the composition, using edit, free transform to resize them and then added a new layer to create some foggy mist around them. For this I used a lasoo tool, with feathering set to 30 to select the area that I wanted to have mist and filled it with white at about 30% opacity. I then added noise and added a box blur. I then added a glowing edge with a high spread to this layer by adding a layer style. The last step was to erase any mist that had covered the dragons with a fine eraser and using the dodge tool once more to bring out highlights on the creatures, before flattening and saving the image as Guardians / / To see the finished piece, click Here /
In the beginning it was because I recieve…
In the beginning it was because I recieved a funny email from a friend that contained an image of a weird looking animal that was made up of three diffrent animals put together in a half decent attempt. I loved the idea , but thought I could do alot better … I had no idea how to use any of these pixel abusing program other then the lousy paint program that comes with Windows. I had learned fast from friends that PhotoShop was the program to learn and soon found myself becoming very frustrated with it. I got sick to my stomache and pissed off when I kept on hearing about Layers!! Blending Layers! Adjustment Layers, Masking Layers !!!! ...... How may F%*&#$@ Layers do you need in a graphics program!!!! I messed around and persisted and eventually learned how to create those funny looking animals better then the guy in the Email. I did things sometimes using the wrong methods and tools , that blow me away today , cause now I know better ( Layers Masks etc ) Eventually I was contacted by the editor of PhotoShop Creative Magazine and she wanted to do an Interview with me and told me she loved my PhotoShop animal work. I was lucky enough to have a couple of images appear in Advanced PhotoShop aswell. For a short while I got into entering PhotoShop contests on the net and did pretty well for myself, sometimes winning money and sometimes winning books, but the contests left me wanting something more. One day I was reading about a contest held by PhotoShop Creative Magazine and some new site called RedBubble, I think the prize was a huge monitor and being published. This is how I discovered this amazing site and community. I belonged to other communitys sites on the net for artists , but they always left me feeling left out or no one was very involved. Redbubble had so much more to offer then the other sites. I talked to Peter on the phone one time and he asked me what I liked about the site the most and I replied ” The Feeling of Community and Friends “ This site is full of some of the most amazing artists in the world, representing all kinds of mediums and they excell at it. I am inspired by so many of you !! I wish i had the time to comment on all the amazing work I see on here, but alas I am a father to a soon to be 6 year old and have a lovely lady that I am very much in love with. I am lucky to have a job where the future looks great and no signs of any layoffs and its also very interesting! Most of the time my PhotoShop time is in the wee early hours of the morning , when everyone else has gone to bed. So far the first 6 years has been a blast! and I plan on many more years of creating more artwork. Thanks to all of you for your continued support and favs and kind words and comments. Sorry if this dragged on too long I gotta get back to PhotoShop their are always Pixels just calliing to be abused and I am a willing executioner. Randy SnowDog Monteith
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I have added a new journal entry on my website about the misconceptions of photoshop and how it relates to art and music :) “*Click He…
I have added a new journal entry on my website about the misconceptions of photoshop and how it relates to art and music :) Click Here to read the entry… Cheers!
I would like to share some very nice B&W works through my favourites. I hope you like them as much as I do. MY ANGEL by Lestat / !...
I would like to share some very nice B&W works through my favourites. I hope you like them as much as I do. MY ANGEL by Lestat / No Title 22 by Headcrime / Dolarice by Cameron Gray / Carousel by Deborah Parkin / Central Pier by Alex Worsley / 60w world by kitsch /
My Many thanks for Featuring this Piece Of Art to the Hosts and Members of, PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY !http://images-1.redbubb…
My Many thanks for Featuring this Piece Of Art to the Hosts and Members of, PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY Mother Earth Spirit
That’s a great great great pleasure and honor for me.. My desire is on frontpage!! / Thanks to you all.. I cannot express my happiness :) ...
That’s a great great great pleasure and honor for me.. My desire is on frontpage!! / Thanks to you all.. I cannot express my happiness :)
Yes I turn 48 years old today and my wife had to go to work. So here I am PhotoShoping! I took a bribe from a local Internet com…
Yes I turn 48 years old today and my wife had to go to work. So here I am PhotoShoping! I took a bribe from a local Internet company and got a free laptop for using them!!! Tomorrow is the city’s Santa Claus Parade, love this cause I love to watch the look on my 5 year old son Rory’s face! PhotoShop Creative magazine’s Art Director emailed me about using some of my artwork in an ad for an upcoming issue!! How nice is that! Ok back to making some artwork later all you good people!
I had mentioned in an earlier post that my wife bought me tickets to see Alice Cooper in concert locally. She has also mentioned she had…
I had mentioned in an earlier post that my wife bought me tickets to see Alice Cooper in concert locally. She has also mentioned she had gotten backstage passes to meet Alice. When we got there we couldn’t find her contact and it looked like no one knew about use meeting Alice Cooper. She tried phoning the guy and he said the manager was being a pain and we might not be able to get passes. My wife talked to the manager and he told us that Alice’s manager wasn’t allowing any more passes to be handed out. He then told us to stand by the meeting room door and he would see what he could do. After the concert he told us sorry there is nothing he could do. So I handed him my artwork and asked him to deliver to Alice for me. He then produces one VIP pass and says only one of us could go in between my wife and I. My wife tells me to go. Two minutes later she enters the room and tells me the manager gave her a pass aswell. Sitting in from of us , waiting to get his VIP pass is non other then this guy Ron Jeremy the porn star.Sorry for the shaky shot that was my fault! My wife , who has more personality then any ten people you know, then gets her picture taken with this guy next Alice checks out my artwork I brought for him to sign, plus I brought an extra copy as a present for him Here is a link to the image I renamed it last night to Alice Cooper – Steven’s NightMare Click Here Alice was a very nice guy and joked with Lisa and myself, talked about his two girls that are a part of his stage show. the concert was excellent!!!
I have been very lucky to have my artwork featured in so many amazing groups lately, its very overwhelming. Many thanks to the host…
I have been very lucky to have my artwork featured in so many amazing groups lately, its very overwhelming. Many thanks to the hosts of these groups and thanks to everyone on RB that continues to support my artwork with your comments and favs. Breaking thru the Walls was featured in Dimensions Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers was featured in Dimensions was featured in Core c-o-r-e If These Walls Could Talk was featured in Imaginative Realism ( Detail Shot ) The Otherside of No Tomorrow was featured in Back in Black Emotional Arithmetic was featured in Core c-o-r-e Death Stick was featured in Core c-o-r-e and in Imaginative Realism Emergence was featured in Core c-o-r-e Eve was featured in Enchanting Powerful Photo Manipulation was featured in Fantasy Fine Art Composites Stealing up the Stairway was featured in Dimensions was featured in Core c-o-r-e Then I was given the honour of being a featured artist in the group Elite Controversial Artists thanks again to everyone keep up the great work all of you in so many ways are an inspiration to me! Randy Monteith
Danni the art director, of PhotoShop Creative Magazine, sent me an email a few months back asking permission to use some of my artwork to…
Danni the art director, of PhotoShop Creative Magazine, sent me an email a few months back asking permission to use some of my artwork to promote the magazine’s webpage and the magazine itself. Billboy was kind enough to scan me the page and send it to me. I won’t see Issue #42 for a month or so here in Canada BillyBoy is also in the magazine aswell on the opposite page!
I sold two prints for $200 each in the last two days!!! Today my wife’s boss bought a print of my image Earth Bound !http:/...
I sold two prints for $200 each in the last two days!!! Today my wife’s boss bought a print of my image Earth Bound Yesterday a lady bought a print of Fury of the Fallen
Microsoft bought some software called TrueSpace 3D which is a $600 3D program and are now giving it away for free Click Here...
Microsoft bought some software called TrueSpace 3D which is a $600 3D program and are now giving it away for free Click Here There you can download the software 7.6 being the latest , the manual and some videos. Have fun!! PS I think this is only for windows but will check later gotta go to work now Randy
A huge thank you to the outstanding group Raw Art and it’s hosts for featuring my work / “Dante’s Inferno” / !http://images-3.redbubble….
A huge thank you to the outstanding group Raw Art and it’s hosts for featuring my work / “Dante’s Inferno” / / I’m so honoured and delighted to be featured by this wonderful group! / What an amazing day this is turning out to be!!! Yaaaaaaaay! / Have a great day / love and hugs / Carol xxxxx
5 more features !!!!! Thanks to host Sharon of the group Dimensions...
5 more features !!!!! Thanks to host Sharon of the group Dimensions For featuring my image My Last Breath Thanks to the hosts Vestque and / “Argeni”http://www.redbubble.com/people/argeni of the group Villians and Villainess The Darker Side for featuring my image Wicked Wings Thanks to the hosts Patricia Anne McCarty and Linda Carol Nelson of the group Dragon’s Fire for featuring my image Dragon’s Fate Thanks to the hosts Shanina Conway Rose Moxon AlienVisitor and Laurie McClave of “Fantasy Art”http://www.redbubble.com/fantasy-art for featuring my image A Prison of My Own Making Thanks to the hosts Sally Omar Carlotta Peacock Flowersetc Gail Bridger of the group Bits and Pieces for featuring my image Fractal Lake Unicorn Encounter I am truly honoured and wish to thanks all my supporters for their comments and favs! Randy SnowDog Monteith
Wow imagine being able to remove someone or something from an image in a very easy way. What about resizing an image or cropping i…
Wow imagine being able to remove someone or something from an image in a very easy way. What about resizing an image or cropping it??? Check out this video it will change the way you use and think about PhotoShop! Click Here# Randy
On Saturday, April 12, 2008 my band, Under Pressure will be playing at a benefit dance for a local man …
On Saturday, April 12, 2008 my band, Under Pressure will be playing at a benefit dance for a local man who has contracted a rare lung disease, and will likely not be able to return to work. Earlier in the day there will a Chinese auction and a silent auction. Both Darlene and myself have donated a print each of the organizer’s choosing. Here are the two images that they chose to put up for auction. / / /
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Great site / PS tutorials
I have wanted to own or run a gallery for some time now mainly to display and sell local artist’s work, but because of the economics of …
I have wanted to own or run a gallery for some time now mainly to display and sell local artist’s work, but because of the economics of my home town, the fierce competition of the larger cities around me, and the fact that I am a poor photography student with a family and no money, It has never been practical. / The other day I was walking through Wal-Mart (American retail super-center run by under paid needy workers) and I noticed they had new lcd monitors set up at the end of the isles for POS (Point of Sale) demonstrations. These POS screens also had speakers which I had not seen before in a POS. / What I saw in my head was this; A gallery that caters to the artist and the customer by offering an experience I know I have never had at a gallery: You walk in to the gallery and it looks much like a normal gallery, 10 or so 19 inch digital picture frames, each with sound so that the artist can display their work with their interpretation in their voice, or their choice of music, poem, noise, etc. (some of these I know you would be dealing with copyrights). / Depending on technology you might also be able to place your order for what ever size print you like right there at the frame. Preferably printing would be done in house so that the artist could see that the prints are what they need to be, but that would only be if there was enough demand to pay for it. I think that artist control of finished product is a must if this idea is going to work. In a conventional gallery the artist brings the finished piece into the gallery, so there is nothing that can really go wrong. With my idea the artist is letting a third party print their work, and I would want it to be exactly how they want it. / Please let me know what you think of this idea. If you don’t like it, please tell me why or what you would change. If you do like it, please tell me why and what you would change. Thank you for your time and comments, Shaun
Thank you so much for featuring Yesterdays Fan in the group. / My rewards is that people enjoy the Art. Safe Journeys to All
Thank you so much for featuring Yesterdays Fan in the group. / My rewards is that people enjoy the Art. Safe Journeys to All
“Yummy…” was featured in the group Giraffes- the Long and Tall of It! / !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:blackwithdetai…
“Yummy…” was featured in the group Giraffes- the Long and Tall of It! / “Safe sex” was featured in the group LMAO ART / “The kiss” was featured in the group All Out Emotion / I am very happy with these features! Thanks so much, hosts of the three groups!!!
Mother Earth-Spirit / was featured in THE SISTERHOOD ...
Mother Earth-Spirit / was featured in THE SISTERHOOD / Thank the Hosts and members of this great group…... / This one is in the TED challenge,she has been view so many times she is not shy anymore..Thank everyone for all the Wonderful comments on this one. Reading in the Dark / was featured Paintings Modern and Beyond – PiMT This is a newer group of artists that put the brushes and digital together..Great group Thank the Hosts and members so much for this feature…. / / Spring Mtn.Climb was featured in ABSTRACT DIGITAL ART AND WRITING…Many thanks to the Hosts and mambers…....Great group as well.
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