In the meantime... I HAD A PHOTO ACCEPTED. You're thinking, big whoop, I get 20 accepted a day. Well, you're not as lazy as I am. I have also submitted 5 more today. Yesterday I was off, so I read and practiced some tutorials. Manly dealing with glowing and brush sets.
I never installed brush sets before, so it was all new to me. I had the basic concept that I wanted him to be holding a glowing orb that was oozing with colors streaming out into the air. The cropping of the original photo limited where I could place him in the photo. I started by extracting him from the original photo. I then placed him on a black background and enlarged the canvas. I played with the levels, curves and contrast to make him to appear to be in a dark room. I then added a soft white glow on the floor to make it appear he was actually somewhere and not just pasted there. I started with a rainbow of colors streaming from his fingers via brush and streaming upward, but it blocked his face so I backed off and decided to go with just a glowing orb. I read some tutorials about glowing orbs and I read about roman.de and his free brush sets. I downloaded the first eight and I then had to learn about installing them. After that I started trying to create my orb. Still wasn't looking like I wanted, soon then I found a tutorial that I cannot refind about creating a new layer of black, hit filter/render/lens flare and change to 105mm prime lens. Use a gradient adjustment (radial) to reduce it to the size you need. Change to hard light, and alter the hue as desired. I then went back and erased the layer on this side of his fingers to make it look more like he was holding it.
The text was just a basic text, with a emboss layer style and an outer glow. I tried to get it to look like it was streaming from the orb, but made it hard to read, so I just straightened it back out and raised it up. That's when I decided to make it look like a sign. I downloaded some chain brushes and created a chain. I realized the text was crooked, but kept it that way because it added a little something. The only other photo was a request from a friend...
For some great tutorials, try Photoshop Lady. They have various levels of skill, and they also give a time that a certain effect would take. I RSS the feed on my homepage, which is my.yahoo.com.
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