Steph's Blend Tutorial: Virtual Scrapbook Style
May 29, 2008 19:59:55 GMT
Post by Administrator on May 29, 2008 19:59:55 GMT
Originally posted by Steph.
Blend Style 1:
This is less blending and more digital scrap booking in my head although it looks blended. The techniques are very simple, though takes working knowledge of your graphics program. I think you can follow this in psp, though it's been so long since I used psp that I honestly couldn't tell you.
Basically all you need for this whatever pictures you want to blend together. I'll be using some shots from Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, a gradient, and some brushes.
We start with a blank canvas. Mine's 1024x768 cause I think I'll make a wallpaper, remember that it's easier to size down than it is to size up so I work as big as I can and crop and resize to what I want later.
I picked a pretty gradient and filled a my canvas, then I pick up my Elliptical marquee tool and set the feather to 25 pixels and the anti-alias on.
I go to the first picture of I'm going to use and select as much as I think looks good remembering because this is going to give me a wide fuzzy border which is what looks blended in the end, to select more than I want else your image'll be too transparent in the end. And I paste it in a new layer on top of my gradient.
I repeat this for all my pictures. I resize and arrange however. (This is the artistic “you” part. *wink*)
Then we're done with the scrappy book part but it's still kind of boring, so we'll spice it up with a few effects and brushes. I desaturate and add a variation to get a kind of brown color, then set my layer blend to multiply and drop my opacity to 50%
I'm using brushes I made myself but you're just as welcome to use downloaded ones, there are tons out there, or to skip this step entirely.
You use these brushes like stamps rather than painting with them just click the mouse and move to the next. I also add a few other little speckles with a brush set to high spacing for a random effect, just swirl around wherever and it'll occasional put a star there. I use different layers for each stamp so I can change the blending effects
Some text and I'm done. This technique can be used on any sort of image, photographs, sim pictures, paintings, or a combo of any of the above.
Lyrics: Jimmy Eat World “My Sundown”
Blend Style 1:
This is less blending and more digital scrap booking in my head although it looks blended. The techniques are very simple, though takes working knowledge of your graphics program. I think you can follow this in psp, though it's been so long since I used psp that I honestly couldn't tell you.
Basically all you need for this whatever pictures you want to blend together. I'll be using some shots from Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, a gradient, and some brushes.
We start with a blank canvas. Mine's 1024x768 cause I think I'll make a wallpaper, remember that it's easier to size down than it is to size up so I work as big as I can and crop and resize to what I want later.
I picked a pretty gradient and filled a my canvas, then I pick up my Elliptical marquee tool and set the feather to 25 pixels and the anti-alias on.
I go to the first picture of I'm going to use and select as much as I think looks good remembering because this is going to give me a wide fuzzy border which is what looks blended in the end, to select more than I want else your image'll be too transparent in the end. And I paste it in a new layer on top of my gradient.
I repeat this for all my pictures. I resize and arrange however. (This is the artistic “you” part. *wink*)
Then we're done with the scrappy book part but it's still kind of boring, so we'll spice it up with a few effects and brushes. I desaturate and add a variation to get a kind of brown color, then set my layer blend to multiply and drop my opacity to 50%
I'm using brushes I made myself but you're just as welcome to use downloaded ones, there are tons out there, or to skip this step entirely.
You use these brushes like stamps rather than painting with them just click the mouse and move to the next. I also add a few other little speckles with a brush set to high spacing for a random effect, just swirl around wherever and it'll occasional put a star there. I use different layers for each stamp so I can change the blending effects
Some text and I'm done. This technique can be used on any sort of image, photographs, sim pictures, paintings, or a combo of any of the above.
Lyrics: Jimmy Eat World “My Sundown”