If you’re an artist or designer looking for some free hi res textures to use in you work, I am now giving away my personal textures for o…
If you’re an artist or designer looking for some free hi res textures to use in you work, I am now giving away my personal textures for others to use in their work. These textures are completely free and can be used for commercial and non-commercial work. / If you could help spread the word about these free textures, I would be very grateful. / I’m also giving away free copies of my book to certain people who are of particular help in promoting these textures & my website. / Textures are available from: / http://www.ParableVisions.com Enjoy, - Cameron Gray
Kia ora, this group is for skyscapes *art that is predominantly sky, as opposed to land or se…
Kia ora, this group is for skyscapes art that is predominantly sky, as opposed to land or sea. Majestic cloud-filled skys or stormy nights. Sunrises and sunsets. Art where the focus is the sky, not a building, smokestack or anything else unless there’s a fabulous sky behind it (and plain bright blue is not fabulous). / / Guidelines / / - up to two image uploads per day / - maximum of eight images per member for this group / - any questions, just ask. / / You can switch them around as you add to your portfolio. Directions - To join the group – go to ‘groups’ – click on ‘skyscapes’ – click on ‘join this group’. / - To add an image – go to edit your image, scroll down to ‘skyscapes’ (this is new), tick the box and save. You’re in – welcome!
What a week on redbubble !! I’d just like to express my overwhelming joy and thanks to ALL in the RB community. / My week has been full …
What a week on redbubble !! I’d just like to express my overwhelming joy and thanks to ALL in the RB community. / My week has been full of highlights and Blessings firstly with “The Covenant”being featured on the Art page. Secondly the sale of two cards of ‘The Covenant’ and ‘Blades on the Locks’, then my image ” The Broken Vessel” being chosen as the avatar for Living Christianity. To top it all off, I opened up redbubble to find that “The Covenant”had made the Home Page!! / I would like to offer my very sincere thanks to everybody who took the time to view “The Covenant” and make ALL those wonderful comments, it really is very overwhelming and somewhat humbling to have such beautiful and genuine comments from a community of very talented people, here on RB !!! / I would also like to express my thanks to those who voted for “The Broken Vessel”, it is real joy to be able to represent the group, like that !! / In regard to “The Covenant” it really was one of those Divine appointments where i was in the right place at the right time to capture “The Magic of the Moment” / The image was taken just after a rainstorm, towards sunset at the close of a rather hot, humid, stormy summer’s day near Geelong, Australia. / Once again thankyou for your wonderful support, / Phil T.
Well, I started on Red Bubble sometim in August 2007, by Mach 2008, I finally reached 10000 veiws…Great achievement for me!!! But no…
Well, I started on Red Bubble sometim in August 2007, by Mach 2008, I finally reached 10000 veiws…Great achievement for me!!! But now, 5000 more view within less than 3 months…That’s even better!!! It shows me that people on RB appreciate my work, and also, that I must’ve made some improvment… Anyway, Thanks to everyonw who commented, favorited, viewed and purchased my work…It is truly appreciated!!! Frank
I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to the wonderful person who purchased a mounted print of my image “The Covenant” / I d…
I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to the wonderful person who purchased a mounted print of my image “The Covenant” / I do hope and pray that you enjoy viewing it and share some of the Blessing, enjoyment and excitement that I experienced as I stood there in awe and had the utmost pleasure in capturing that “special moment” in time. / Again, Blessings and thanks, / Phil
I just read a bubble mail from SpaceAce08, the host of Hot Rods, Customized Muscle Cars & Street Machines, stating the following: New…
I just read a bubble mail from SpaceAce08, the host of Hot Rods, Customized Muscle Cars & Street Machines, stating the following: New Avatar for the 5/9/08 / This weeks avatar is / Flaming Hot 1956 Ford Truck / By Glenna Waker. Glenna is also this weeks featured member. How exciting is that – nine features in all and avatar for the week? All I can say is Mr. Ace has made my day, I was literally in tears. I needed this so bad right now. I am so honored, I could not thank him enough. In his words: “Once again congrats to Glenna Walker for being this weeks featured member and avatar!” WOOHOO!!!!!!!! Check it out Thank you Mr. Ace!!!!!!!
Take you for visiting my journal This month is a special one for me. / 1) I made my first sale at Redbubble / 2) I have over 10000 vie…
Take you for visiting my journal This month is a special one for me. / 1) I made my first sale at Redbubble / 2) I have over 10000 views ( in less than a year) / 3) I received a couple of nice comments Making a sale at Redbubble makes you feel good. / But having lots of views for your picture is also good; and even have people placing your photo as a favourite is great. / Comments are always comments – but they show appreciation and also construction critic. Have faith and believe in yourself. / Go out there and shoot/draw/paint/write…you can do it too. Kindly view my gallery and leave comments. Buying is just optional. LOL Christian Zammit (aka Sbosic) / Malta
Thank you Paul and Anne for featuring my clouds. Very nice of you:))) Thanks so much to every Member who also visited this photo:)) All t…
Thank you Paul and Anne for featuring my clouds. Very nice of you:))) Thanks so much to every Member who also visited this photo:)) All the Best to you, Tereza:)
Oh My… Such Joy.. Peek Of Warmth was chosen to be Featured in the wonderful group Nirvana I…
Oh My… Such Joy.. Peek Of Warmth was chosen to be Featured in the wonderful group Nirvana I do so love this capture.. Reminds me when I was a small child looking at an art piece from long ago.. Some things are timeless.. Thank you so much for showing this work.. / Chuck & Kathy
I am proud to unveil a new painting from my studio entitled, “Segawa Kikunjojo II”. (Dancing The Part Of Yamauba) My painting is style…
I am proud to unveil a new painting from my studio entitled, “Segawa Kikunjojo II”. (Dancing The Part Of Yamauba) My painting is styled after ancient (1760 era) Japanese Graphic art, by artists like Tori Kiyomitsu Ga and Eshi Tori Kiyomasu Hitsu and based on paintings like, The Autumn Moon Above Ishi Mountain and Segawa Kikunojo II, Dancing the Part of Yamuba. / This is the first in my study paintings of ancient Japanese artwork. It was a very intense and rewarding piece to work on. Every line and brush stroke needed to be calculated and yet also flow with an ease and grace. This is my first original painting in a series of many I intend to delve into over the next year. / I am very drawn to Japanese art and grew up with traditional Japanese artwork in my home. The beauty of this type of art has always captured me, as I hope my work will for you as well. Here are some photos of my art as it is being created and completed…enjoy! xoxo
I made this image for a challenge which consisted in creating A hand-made sunrise, sunset or sunbeam or storm work. After uploading i…
I made this image for a challenge which consisted in creating A hand-made sunrise, sunset or sunbeam or storm work. After uploading it to my portfolio, with some details as to how it was created, I was asked to post the tutorial in a Photoshop oriented forum. So there it is in a more detailed version. I hope that you will find it useful. Please do not hesitate to signal any mistake you might find or ask for clarification if you find some point confusing. This is the modified image: / I started with a not so interesting colour photo which presented a nice dense cloudy sky, and the trees in the foreground was dim and more in silhouette. It was shot at sunset, so the sky was not too bright, just enough to show a good definition in the clouds and suggest the presence of ozone in the atmosphere. My original photo was 3872×2592 pixels. The size of the photo is important to mention in this case because you might have to adjust the different values depending on your image size. Original image / If you prefer, you can use my original photo by right clicking on the link and saving to your computer. Link to original photo STEP 1 – CONVERT TO BLACK AND WHITE / I used a tutorial published by Design by Fire . It had been originally created by the photographer Greg Gorman’s photo retoucher, Rob Carr. If you decide to use this tutorial, please note that in Photoshop 6, you have to convert image mode back to 8 bits prior to step 4 where you need to Ctrl+Click (Windows) on the thumbnail of the Channels palette to load a selection, or else it won’t work. I don’t know how it is for other versions; you will have to try. For this image, I chose a greenish tone for my solid color adjustment layer in step 6, picking my colour at left, near the bottom of the color picker as shown in the tutorial (theirs is in a red palette instead of green). STEP 2 – CREATING RAIN After converting my image to a nice and rich black and white, I used another interesting tutorial that I found on the internet to create rain. This great and easy tutorial was made by Domen Lombergar and if you wish, you can view his tutorial on video right here However, I will write below each step of the tutorial anyway, entering the settings that I have used for this particular image. 1. You should now have a nice black and white image to start with. 2. Add a new layer, name it Rain and fill it with black. 3. Now we need to add noise. Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and enter 400% in the amount value. You may have to enter more if your image is larger or less if your image is smaller. Check either Uniform or Gaussian, it doesn’t matter, but make sure that the box Monochromatic is checked. Click OK. 4. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and play with the angle and distance until you are satisfied. In this instance, I chose a negative angle value of -41 , and a distance of 61 pixels . 5. I adjusted the opacity to 34% (may vary according to taste and to background image) and blended in screen mode. 6. The next thing was to create an adjustment layer on the background image (between the background and the rain layers) to darken the background a little and match the atmosphere. 7. I finished the rain process by cropping the blurred edges out, leaving me with image approximately 3780 by 2500 pixels in size. STEP 3 – CREATING A LIGHTNING BOLT For the last step, I created a lightning bolt using a great tutorial by Matthew Whiting 1. You need to start your lightning in a new document with the background set to transparent. My rainy black and white image was a little more that 2500 px high, and I figured that my lightning bolt would run from the little hole in the clouds to the bottom, meaning a little more than half of the height. Just to be sure, I made my new document a transparent square of 1500×1500 pixels. 2. Now you will fill it with a gradient. To do so, make sure that your default colours are set to black and white by hitting the D key. Then, pick your Gradient tool from the tools menu and in the horizontal menu at the top of your screen, choose a black to white gradient, making certain that the Linear gradient option is selected. Holding the Shift key, trace a straight horizontal line accross the layer, starting at about ¼ of the document and stopping at ¾. Placing a grid on your document could help you gauge where to start and finish, if you’re not sure. To do this, go to Edit > Preferences > Guides and Grid . In the Grid section, put 25 in the box marked Gridline every: , change the measuring units to %* , and write *0 in Subdivisions. Click OK then go to View > Show and select Grid . This is really useful as well to assess the rule of thirds. In that case, you just change the percentage to 33,3 in the Guides and Grid preferences. Back to the lightning now! 3. Now that you have a nice gradient, apply a Difference Clouds filter by clicking Filter > Render > Difference Clouds. 4. Your bolt is starting to show, but it is black and you need to change it to white. To do so, just hit Ctrl+i (Windows) or (Cmd+i in Mac) in order to invert the image. You could also use the command Image > Adjust < Invert . 5. Adding a Levels adjustment layer , you will push the black cursor to the right, mine was pushed to about 170 and slide the gamma (gray) triangle to the right as well, next to the white one which must remain at 255. Again, you might want to vary a bit according to your own image. 6. Select the image and go to Edit > Copy Merged, then paste into your rainy black and white photo, place into appropriate position, and blend in screen mode. 7. Now is the time to modify the general shape of the bolt if you find it too wavy. To do this, make sure that the bolt layer is active in the Layers palette and go to Edit > Transform > Distort . Pull the handle up to elongate the bolt a bit and or pull the sides in a bit if you wish. Apply your transformation when satisfied. 8. Should you wish to add little branches to your bolt, you can do so by selecting some that are sticking out and either cut or copy to a new layer, then position to taste. You can do this and reverse them horizontally to put some on the other side too. 9. When your bolt is shaped to your liking, use the eraser tool set at 0 hardness and 45 % opacity to slowly erase the extra blur around the bold and any remaining clouds (from the difference clouds step) that you don’t want. 10. Adjust levels again if needed. THE LAST STEP! – GLOWING LIGHT Finally, the lightning bolt needs some surrounding light to look realistic. 1. Create a new transparent layer, right under the rain layer at the top. 2. Select a large soft and round brush of 279 px and hardness set to 0, and adjust the Brush Dynamics to fade in size and opacity (I used 70 steps for size and 100 steps for opacity). 3. Make sure that white is the foreground colour in your default colours, select it and paint over the lightning bolt, starting from the bottom and going up to the originating point. 4. Apply a gaussian blur filter (I used 160 radius) and fix opacity to your liking. If you wish, you can add a spot of additional light at the point where the lightning bolt originates from the clouds using the same method as for the addition of glowing light along the bolt. 1. Create a new transparent layer, right under the rain layer at the top. 2. Select a large soft and round brush of 279 px and hardness set to 0, and apply a dot of white at the appropriate point. 3. Apply a gaussian blur filter (I used 160 radius) and fix opacity to your liking. Voilà! You should now have a great stormy landscape! I hope that I have not confused you too much. Have fun!
/ Adi / 2002-2008 / / Our little a…
/ Adi / 2002-2008 / / Our little and only son, Adi, recently died in a tragic accident. He was 6 years old and an awarded Nature photographer. / / / Always ready camera in hand / / I invite the RB community to join us in a balloon release ceremony on the 14th of April. We are releasing the balloons at 9:30 AM EDT (Boston time) sending our dear Adi messages to his cloud. As it is midnight or later in Australia and New Zealand, it would be lovely if the local community would join us throughout their daytime on the 14th of April in spirit, thoughts, releasing a balloon or just in any small symbolic act in memory of a little child. Handy local time >here A heartfelt thank you. Missing him dearly, Carmen and Omri Mandel / / / / / Celebrating Adi blog / / In Loving Memory poem / / /
Fifth feature for this painting…this time In Moody Dark and Mysterious I am so pleased !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/bo…
Fifth feature for this painting…this time In Moody Dark and Mysterious I am so pleased / Mysterious Kor Mysterious Kor thy walls forsaken stand, / Thy lonely towers beneath the lonely moon.
civilization VS nature – eternal war or just hopeless mimicry and all around only mimicry complex … ??? so there is short essay abo…
civilization VS nature – eternal war or just hopeless mimicry and all around only mimicry complex … ??? so there is short essay about complicated Aesthetics of clouds and electric cables …
I was out and about the other day, and spotted something from the top of the Gateway Bridge that I wanted to photograph, so I looked for …
I was out and about the other day, and spotted something from the top of the Gateway Bridge that I wanted to photograph, so I looked for a spot to take the photo I wanted. Needless to say, I couldn’t find a way to frame it, but discovered that the bridge looked pretty interesting against the sky. The new bridge is being built on the other side of the one you can see here….20 years later… The whole point of this ramble is the differences noticeable in my images shot with the polariser I had on my lens. I bought a Singh Ray warming polariser last year, but haven’t used it much because I don’t like being out in the middle of the day. Too hot, and tooooo sunny here in Qld. I used the polariser for this first image, but not turned to it’s correct position. When I checked the image on the back of the camera, I thought it looked dull and lifeless, so I rotated the circular polariser until the sky looked better, and I noticed that the white across the top of the bridge stood out a lot brighter too. Here’s the second shot. Much more vibrant! Doesn’t a polariser make a difference! Polarisers can also be useful for hiding and or enhancing reflections, in water and glass, however they can do nasty things to the sky when used with ultra-wide lenses. They generally work best with skies when you are 90degrees to the sun, I believe. Here’s the final image after some tweaking
So The Monsoon Season Officially started…....... / The day was beautiful…....... / Not A Cloud In the Sky…............ / !http://image…
So The Monsoon Season Officially started…....... / The day was beautiful…....... / Not A Cloud In the Sky…............ / / When all of a sudden this started to roll into the Valley (Phoenix) / / So I grabbed my camera and started to shoot the western sky…....... / First the sky got cloudy and gray….... / / I seconds the dust began to engulf the mountain behind our home….... / / The sun was quickly disappearing…........ / / Every click of the camera the sun stated to fade…...... / / Until Poof…......it was gone….......... / / 50 minutes later it was all over…......... Ahwatukee AZ. / canon A530
Learn how to publish a great photographic magazine and how to sell it… Derek Powazek’s guide to compiling a printed magazine...
Learn how to publish a great photographic magazine and how to sell it… Derek Powazek’s guide to compiling a printed magazine in a little over a day contains plenty of sage advice. For Strange Light he curated 54 photographs of last month’s dust storm in Sydney, and offers insight into the process of approaching photographers to seek permission to use their work. The resulting publication is for sale on MagCloud for just enough to cover printing costs… Really a great article and worth to read and learn how to publish and sell own magazines online… Read also: PROMOTE YOURSELF COOL…! or Use the impact of a new SHARE BUTTON to promote your work… or My wallart feature at the PUMA RUNNING website…
I had such a lovely visit last night with ‘The Bubble’, I miss the hours I used to spend on line. And I do mean hours. So much has ha…
I had such a lovely visit last night with ‘The Bubble’, I miss the hours I used to spend on line. And I do mean hours. So much has happened because of those hours spent. Life and Art unfolding… becoming more. Recently I’ve met such wonderful people and am having fun. I am also working lots in my craft and workin me body too! / . / There is nothing more satisfying for me like giving thanks to those on this amazing site who have been instrumental in my creative JOY!!! / . / Fran Moore from the day I met her has been such a loving and creative inspiration for me. Her group Solo Exhibition has become a shining lighT for artists to experience a solo exhibition here on RB. And for some it is their first to be SEEN SOLO!!. Also the Ezine she created and is dedicated to BLOWS ME AWAY!!! INSIDE SOLO (THIS IS ISSUE #17 I’VE LINKED YOU TO CAUSE.. WELL I AM IN IT!!) gives us the scoop on fellow bubblers here inside the bubble as well as what is going on outside in the Art World.. Because of her dedication to her Ezine and the members of Solo she has put much of her creative talents on the back burner. She is an amazing artist and shares freely her knowledge on ‘how to’ tutorials that you can find in her ezine. A couple of my favs of hers: / Rain Dance / / And / / WOW FRAN.. HERE: / . / something just for you.. now take a break and have a sip and Have A Hug….. / / Whew YOU ROCK / ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ / SPEAKING OF HUGS… / / . / DEAR ROSA COBOS / My Goodness there is so much love emanating from her Soul. She said recently I am not into Souls.. well I don’t know about that cause her Soul really has an abundant healing and giving Source and I have felt this many times over. Rosa I am including you in my Joy of Appreciation because your work on Nirvana , a fine group started by lPrasad some time ago, is beyond measure. You take the time to read each and every persons works and you comment on many. I appreciate you Rosa. / Rosa is another fine artist and most know of her intense talent for verse as well as image. / Two of my faves… / O Tu…SuavissimaVirga / “ / Without eyes, you can contain the Light of Lights. / Without mouth, tender and flesh…kissing the air, / you can blow the ardent star of the Gods up. / Without sighings…. / you can defend the honesty of your heart.. / Without laughing…. / you can make the flowers dance… / and open their organs with impudence / .... / Sigh… / and / Canoe Traveling Dream / / ...Rosa.. have a HUG.. and please forgive me. xxx
My Double Rainbow / Thank you to whomever purchased a laminated prin…
My Double Rainbow / Thank you to whomever purchased a laminated print of this image; you have made my day!!! /
The aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions on how to add clouds to an image which has an otherwise blan…
The aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions on how to add clouds to an image which has an otherwise blank sky, without the necessity of being a Photoshop guru to achieve it. Many stunning images on RB are in fact composites, with clouds being brought in from another image to add impact. (Sometimes you can’t easily tell!) It works very well and can transform an image. I have only uploaded to RB one artwork which is a composite of two shots, one being clouds: The original image of the building was clear sky – not a cloud in sight – and was thus a bit bland and boring and a perfect candidate for some cosmetic surgery. This tutorial was prompted by a request to explain how I did it. I still call myself “new to Photoshop” and I have found a lot of on-line Photoshop tutorials, including some others on RB, assume a much higher level of knowledge than I have and are not very intuitive. So, I try to explain the steps in easy to understand terms (hopefully!) and, importantly, describe what each step should look like after it’s done. So if you are not seeing the result of each step replicated on your screen, you know you have to stop and try again. If this happens, go to the top toolbar, select Edit then Undo [whatever it is you’ve just done] from the drop-down menu and try again. (Many many tutorials lose me when they fail to include this vital “check back”.) This tutorial is my longest one yet, given the patience I apply, but once you get the hang of the actions, you will find the process rather quick to do. If you have already read and followed my Orton Effect tutorial (now updated and expanded to include thumbnails), you’ll know what I mean, hopefully, so don’t be put off by this one. I explain the steps based on using Photoshop Elements 7, but users of more advanced Photoshop programs will be able to follow the same steps. I also have Photoshop CS2 (v9.0), for example, and there’s only one slight difference from the PE 7 interface from what I can tell, which I will point out where it’s relevant. If you want to refer back to this tutorial at leisure, feel free to favourite it as I never delete my tutorials. (After all, they’re more popular than my images!) In writing this tutorial I just want to point out a few things. First, I have not read a single tutorial by someone else on this particular process, and the words are all mine. I wish to also acknowledge that Tatiana originally showed me this process. She’s so patient dealing with my impatience! And, finally, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and there is more than one way to achieve what I describe. I’m just relating the method shown to me. Another popular method involves masking. There are LOTS of tutorials on masking. If I have the time and the inclination I will update this tutorial later to include the steps for masking as an alternate process – it’s a completely different path to take to achieve the same result. Lastly, please excuse the standard of screenshots. They’re my first ever attempt at including graphics in a tutorial, or anything for that matter! OK, here we go. Ready? Step One Clouds. You need some cloud photos. Beg, borrow or steal some, or better still, shoot some. I have a folder of nothing but cloud photos. Any day the sky puts on a show I will try and shoot the clouds, just to save them for later use. If you shoot some clouds in JPEG, make sure you shoot them in colour – you can always desaturate to B&W if the image you want to use them in is also in B&W, but if you shoot them in B&W in JPEG you won’t be able to convert to colour to match a colour image. Just another reason to shoot in RAW, really. For this tutorial, however, I am going to use a colour image needing a sky and a B&W sky shot. In theory, this will look weird, and it does, but I will also show you how you can then gradually desaturate the colour image after inserting the B&W sky and achieve quite a startling effect when you leave just a touch of colour. For best results, try to have nothing else in the frame of your cloud shot but sky. No trees or power lines! (If that’s not possible then crop the crap out. But note that creates a potential problem because now your cloud shot will be a different size than the image you want to drop the sky into. That can be fixed, but let’s just worry about equally-sized images for now.) Another advantage of having a “clean” cloud shot is that you can rotate it to horizontal or vertical, depending on the aspect of the image you want to use the sky in. Here’s a little cloud photo I prepared earlier: Step Two Your main image. The one without any clouds. The one you want to insert some action into, some drama. Try to select an image with a completely blank sky. It makes it so much easier for the Magic Wand (I’ll explain later) to figure out the portion of the sky you want to replace, ie all of it. Try to also select an image with straight lines, like a building or, even better, a straight uninterrupted horizon of a landscape or seascape. If you’ve got stuff popping up into the sky, like trees, the method I describe is just made soooo much harder and you may as well stop reading now and go watch TV or a movie. (At this point, the Photoshop gurus are shaking their heads and groaning, because THEY know another method to get around this when doing composites, but we’ll leave THEM on their lofty perches, ok?) Here’s a little image I prepared earlier. You may recognise the building: Cool, but be aware of one important thing: perspective. Unless you are trying to be rather obvious in creating your composite, the perspective of your main image needs to be the same as that used to capture your chosen cloud image. The images I am using for this tutorial were shot from the same perspective, or in other words, with the lens at roughly the same angle for both shots – looking up, at around 70 degrees relative to the ground. If I was to choose instead as my main image a landscape with a horizon, the cloud image I have chosen will not be suitable unless you actually want that abstract feel. Have I explained that well? Tell me if I haven’t. Now, let’s commence cooking our composite. I will refer to my two images in this tutorial as Clouds and Building, just for ease of reference. Step Three You’ve got Photoshop Elements (“PE”) open. Now select File from the top toolbar and select Open from the drop-down menu. Choose your Building shot and open it. Ok, now look across to the right of the screen. See the Layers palette? It should be showing a thumbnail of the Building image, together with the label Background, like so: Now, once again, select File from the top toolbar and select Open from the drop-down menu. Choose your Cloud shot and open it. Look back across to the Layers palette. You should now see a thumbnail of the Cloud image, together with the label Background, like so: Now, left click and hold down the mouse on the Cloud image, and drag it to the side, just enough to show some of the sky of your Building shot. Release the mouse button. Move the mouse over to the Layers palette. Left click and hold over the thumbnail of the Cloud, and drag it over to the sky – anywhere in the sky. Release the mouse button. A copy of the Cloud image should now be “superimposed” over the Building image. Don’t worry if it doesn’t fit. Look back over to the Layers palette. You should now be seeing two thumbnails – the top one called Layer 1 which is the “front” image, and the bottom thumbnail called Background, which is your Building image, like so: Now, ignoring the Layers palette, left click on the Cloud image sitting behind the “superimposed” image. Close it. Step Four Look over to the Layers palette again. See that group of little icons just above the top thumbnail? Hover your mouse slowly over them and their functions should come up, eg the 3rd icon from the left looks like a trash can and when you hover the mouse over it a little word bar comes up saying Delete layer. Well we don’t want to do that. Instead, hover the mouse over the icon on the far left, the one that is a square with an upturned corner. It should say Create new layer. Just remember where that icon is for now. (If you are using Photoshop CS2 or CS3 or CS4, the group of icons is at the bottom of the Layers palette. Hover the mouse over the icons until you find the one that says Create new layer. Remember it.) Now, left click and hold down the mouse over the bottom thumbnail in the Layers palette – it’s the thumbnail of the Building that’s labelled Background – and drag it over to the Create new layer icon. Release the mouse. You should now see three thumbnails in the Layers palette, labelled, from top to bottom: Layer 1, Background copy, and Background, like so: Step Five This is a slightly tricky step. Another click and drag, but best done smoothly and slowly. Left click and hold down the mouse over the Background copy thumbnail in the Layers palette and drag it to just over the top of the Layer 1 thumbnail. Release the mouse. All we are doing here is reversing the order of the top and middle thumbnails, so now your Layers palette should still show three thumbnails, but now in order from top to bottom: Background copy, Layer 1, and Background, like so: Step Six Ok, now the meaty stuff starts. Look over to the left toolbar now (or palette, whatever you want to call it). Hover your mouse until you find the icon labelled Magic Wand. It looks like, um, a magic wand, but don’t confuse it with the Quick selection tool immediately below it. This is the Magic Wand icon: Click on the Magic Wand icon. Your mouse pointer should now have the distinct look of a, um, magic wand. Look up at the little toolbar immediately above the image (which, incidentally, should be of the Building). Make sure the box marked Contiguous is ticked, like so: Now left click once on the sky in the Building image. You should now see marching ants completely around the sky and along the exterior part of the building which protrudes into the sky, like so: (Believe it or not, the technical term for marching ants is …. marching ants.) Step Seven Look closely at the marching ants where they meet the edge of the building. Are there any gaps where you can see the sky? This is important, because if you don’t shift the path of the ants so that they align to the edge of the building, your new sky won’t cover that gap. Enlarge the image if you are not sure. If you see a gap, it is easily fixed. First, press and hold Shift on your keyboard. Second, left click once on the mouse on a gap. Let go the Shift key. You should immediately see those obedient ants form up against the building across the image, like so: Cool, eh? Now, go to the top horizontal toolbar and select Edit. From the drop-down menu select Delete. This will delete your bland boring sky and replace it with your new dramatic sky !!! How cool is that?! Epic. Step Eight Now we have to send the ants home. Go again to the top toolbar and select Select. From the drop-down menu now select Deselect (ha! ha! I love a good alliteration!). Your marching ants should be no more, gone in fact. Does your image look something like this? How cool is that? Step Nine Nearly done! At this juncture, you have two options. You can finish now with the image you’ve got or you can adjust the look of the Building alone and/or the Clouds alone and then finalise the image. To finish now, right click and hold the mouse over the top thumbnail in the Layers palette. Select Flatten image from the drop-down menu – it’s the last menu option: The thumbnails should have collapsed into one thumbnail, called Background, like so: You can now save your image, you’re all done! To work further on the Building alone and/or the Clouds alone, simply left click once on either the Background copy thumbnail and/or the Layer 1 thumbnail and make your adjustments as you would normally do with an image, and then flatten your image and save it. Which is what I did with this image. I simply increased the contrast on the building and desaturated it to the level where there is just a hint of colour. To alter contrast, select Enhance from the top horizontal toolbar, then select Adjust Lighting from the drop-down menu, then select Brightness/Contrast from the second drop-down menu. A separate window will open and there is your contrast slider: To desaturate, select Enhance again from the top horizontal toolbar, then select Adjust Colour from the drop-down menu, then select Adjust Hue/Saturation from the second drop-down menu. A separate window will open and there is your saturation slider: So, how does it look? Epic or what?! Cheers and happy clouding – time to get freaky !!!
Awhile ago I added the image Leather Face to my portfolio. !...
Awhile ago I added the image Leather Face to my portfolio. The extremely talented wildlife painter Robbie Graham came across it and left a comment. As I was responding to his comment jokingly asking if he wanted to paint it, he was bmailing asking if he could at the same time! Of course I agreed (as would any of you after you see his work) and I sent him the original and away he went to do his magic. Here is the original straight from the camer that I sent to him. THIS is Robbie’s painting of the Asian Elephant. I am comepletely blown away and must say very honoured to have a small part in this. Thank you all for checking out Robbie’s work and THANK YOU Robbie for this wonderful experience! Also check out Robbie’s web site here
I’m very thankful to those that voted “a word from above” the best skyscape image of 2009...
I’m very thankful to those that voted “a word from above” the best skyscape image of 2009 in the skyscapes challenge. It’s truly a great honour to be picked amongst some superb entries. Thanks also to the skyscapes group for the $20 prize and featured member. Greatly appreciated indeed! Also many thanks to paws and claws group and cats and dogs group for featuring my Lucy girl “waiting for santa” She was very happy indeed. I’d also like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year.
I have been so busy I have not thanked a few people, publically at least. I have had some wonderful surprise e-mails this past month. You…
I have been so busy I have not thanked a few people, publically at least. I have had some wonderful surprise e-mails this past month. You made a SALE! Nothing better than someone Loving your work enough to spend their hard earned money, especially in these times. I want to say a HUGE HEARTFELT THANK YOU to these kind people! Thank you Kyaa For purchasing a poster of / What If / Thank you to the person who purchased a laminated print of Into Dust / Thank you to the person who purchased my calendar 2010 with Ravensoul / Thank you Julianner For purchasing a laminated print of Cloud Walker / Thank you tkrosvear For purchasing a greeting card of Dream Realm / Thank you Bluewhite For purchasing a laminated print of Dream Realm / Thank you Bluewhite For purchasing a laminated print of His Wrath II / Thank you all so much for your support! Happy New Year!! Hugs Vonne
I saw this front approaching about 8pm so (once again) jumped in the car down to Corio Bay. Managed a few shots before the heavens opene…
I saw this front approaching about 8pm so (once again) jumped in the car down to Corio Bay. Managed a few shots before the heavens opened and nature’s ‘fireworks’ started. (Bad luck about the real fireworks for the New Year’s Eve celebrations – although, as I am sitting here, there are some fireworks happening, trying to compete with the lightning) 1. / 2. / 3. / 4. / 5. / 6. Just made it home before the downpour! /
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