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Possibly one of the easiest effects to create in Photoshop, but it looks as though it’s really complicated. I’ve used a custom shape for the demo here, but you can use this on photographs as well. Remember to duplicate the b/ground and then click on the eyeball to hide it, that is in case you don’t like what you end up with or ….. you make a complete dog’s breakfast of it :-) To practise on, you can do the same thing I have below – create a new file, mine is 800×600 @72dpi and then pick a custom shape. I right clicked on the shape and chose Rasterise from the menu. I then used a Gradient Overlay adjustment layer (available from the FX icon at the bottom of the layers palette) to create the file below. Go to the side toolbar and select the Single Column Marquee Tool. Looking at the image below the image below :-), you can click roughly in a similar area to get the hang of what’s going on. Press Ctrl + T on the keyboard to bring up the Transform Tool, or you can go to Edit>Transform. Place your cursor over the little Box and drag to the left (or the right). Press Enter to accept and then Ctrl + D to Deselect. You should have an idea of what is going on here now. So, go to the side toolbar again and this time select the Single Row Marquee Tool and click in a similar place to what I have in the image below, press Ctrl + T to bring up the Transform Tool and drag the little box to the top of the image. Hit Enter, then deselect by pressing Ctrl + D So lets do this again, but add a filter to the selected area. Use either the single row or single column for you selection, bring up the Transform Tool, drag it to where you want and then press enter to accept – DO NOT deselect the selection. Go to the Filter and choose something like Distort>Zig Zag choose some settings, hit OK to accept and then press Ctrl + D to deselect. You may end up with something similar to the image below. In the image below I gave the Shape Layer a drop shadow, unlocked the b/ground layer and chose another Gradient Overlay Adjustment Layer and below is the final result. It’s an extremely quick and simple effect. Have fun!
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Yesterday when I went to check on RB at the QANTAS club and found it was a banned site … this was bad enough (can’t remember if I hhad safe filter on or not) but it is just the beginning for Australia as the government tries to implement vast restrictions on our access to the net under the guise of protecting chlildren – and I’m all for looking after the kids – but this filtering system does a lot more than that – check out the details and sign teh petition at / Getup http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442 Inernational protesters please sign here / http://petitions.takingitglobal.org/oznetcensorship
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It has been a fantastic week for me. Two of my photos have been chosen though challenges to be AVATARs of two different groups. The groups are: / All things Maltese / For The Love Of Jesus The photos are the following: / Thanks everybody for your support! Happy season to all!! Regards, Christian Zammit / My Calender
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Hi dear friends, My new work (B&W Character People Shots Serie), shows the faces of people, so honest as they were at the time of the shooting. Without mask. I hope you enjoy. Thank you. :) Carlos
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Imma bout ready to just take it to a shop. / Im sooooooo sick about the spots on my sensors (the small square mirror, not the one that moves but the one with the focusing squares on it) / :( im getting stupid spots like this on my lense and have nooo way of getting them off. Its fustrating b/c I dont and shouldnt have to use editing software to smudge them out :( / ough!!! someone plz help see example site
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PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION SUNDAY DECEMBER 14th / so, if you are free & would like to come BUY!!! (was that too obvious)? then shoot me an ‘E’ and i will gladly send you the details. / subject EXHIBITION to events@arthouseproductions.com.au / and i will add you to the guest list. This is not an ‘open house’ event IT’S ALL ABOUT EXPOSURE. / Lets get down & groovy on this. I educate, support, profile and promote emerging talent and I am bringing together some seriously awesome talent on this gig. The models, the photographers, the printer, the chef.. & more. I am not into mainstream but i do like fine things so lets come together on this and support each other. / THE EXHIBITION is / Celebrating just a handful of the Photographers that have shot at ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS and created a very cool collection of images (more to come) that will be on exhibition at my favorite hot spot (a serious bliss factor indeed) / I love french everything.. and this is where its at! / Merci Olivier! This is an ongoing rotational exhibition so once you are introduced to the venue keep dropping in to see what other freeking amazing imagery ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS has created. (ooo and please let me know your guests names and numbers so i can keep tabs on things). SAMPLE VIDEO MONTAGE... rough cut, work in progress… stay tuned see you on the night.. ciao groupies! / ..any inquiries, just hollah! 0401177733 / warmest regards / Alateia
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Just to let you know if you are interested, Darryl and I have started a new group called Creative Cards. It is purely for cards that have been created from scratch using Photoshop or a similar program. NO PHOTOS TO BE USED IN THE CARDS…just your imagination and your own creation. Please feel free to come along, have a look and if you enjoy creating cards, join!! Take care Pat / x
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19676 views… help me get 20000…
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I didn’t really know what to call this :-) Probably aimed at portraits, but you could try it on other things to see how it turns out. The image is brought to us by Orbán Ferenc over at the Stock Exchange site. All the settings used are relevant to this file 800 X 600@72dpi, they will change if you are using a higher res image …. and the technique probably works better on a higher res. Here we go. Open the start image, or one of your own, and duplicate it then close the original. Duplicate the image by dragging it to the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette or press Ctrl + J on the keyboard. Change the blend mode to Overlay and then go to Filter>Other>High Pass. You can see that I have chosen a radius of 4 for this image. You are going to do another High Pass later on, but this should do for now. Remember, if you are working on a higher res image the numbers will have to be larger. Now you are going to add a Gradient Map adjustment layer. Before you do that, check that your f/ground and b/ground colours are set to their defaults i.e. black and white. Once you have the colours to their default, click on the Create New Adjustment Layer at the bottom of the layers palette and choose Gradient Map. Click on the Gradient (see image) to get the dialogue box. You should now have the dialogue box visible and you can start to make some adjustments. Usin the bottom Color Stops drag the black triangle in till the Location reads 15% – drag the white stop in till it reads 95% and move the Color Midpoint till it reads 55%. These are just the settings I chose, you can change them if you like. Once you have it as you like, click OK in the Gradient Editor and then OK in the Gradient Map to accept. Now you are going to do a Stamp Visible. There are several ways that you can do this – making sure that you have the Gradient Adjustment layer active you can hit the Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E keys and the 3 layers will be merged into one. Or you can create a new blank layer above the Gradient Map Layer, hold down the Alt key go to the little downward facing triangle at top of the layers palette and select Merge Visible – don’t let go of the Alt key until it has merged. Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay. Go to Filter>Other>High Pass and you can punch in the number I have, or choose one of your own. If you hold down the Alt key and click on the eyeball next to the background layer, you can see the changes you have made so far. With the Alt key still held down click on the eyeball again to view all of the layers. You could stop there if you wanted to, but you can also do a couple of other things. Making sure that you are working on the top most layer, go to the new adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and choose Solid Color. I chose a blue colour (see image below) and then change the blend mode to colour and you’ll probably have to take the opacity down as well. I took the opacity down to 15%. To further enhance this, you could then create a new blank layer at the top of the layer stack, grab your Elliptical Marquee Tool, hold down the Shift Key to get a circle shape, go to Select>Inverse and then fill the selection with black (or some other colour). Press Ctrl + D to deselect and then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and give it a really high blur. I did about 60 on this image. Go back to Filter> and choose Gaussian Blur from the top to repeat the filter, or you could press Ctrl + F on the keyboard. I then took the opacity of the layer down to 50% – and here is the final image and then a comparison image.
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I have decided to stop being Plukie on here and be me…....Pat. Nearly everybody knows me as Pat anyway so no real confusion. I have been called Plukie for about the last fifteen years, ever since a man I was working with christened me that…it all started because my surname is Lucas, so P Lucas became Plucas, became Plukie, easy really. lol. Now though, I think it’s time to leave Plukie behind, at least as far as being printed on my work goes ;) So…....goodbye Plukie…......hello Pat!! x
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Yea, its so exciting for me, I will post pictures soon on this site. But I went into a newsagents today and bought the magazine (issue no. 68) and guess what I have a 7 page spread. Its so fabulous. The editor Trevor Lang did a really good story for me and the pictures are so great. Redbubble did not get mentioned but that must be for a reason? But its something for me to be proud of. I hope that if you live in Australia you can go to your newsagents and buy it today…..its sealed so you can’t take a peak at it. But please buy it and tell me what you think. I am so excited to be published. BillyLee
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Anyone ever heard of a “red hot pixel”? I recently started noticing while editing, a red dot on alot of my photo’s in the same spot, ecspecially using high ISO’S and slow shutter speeds. / After calling Nikon and reading what i could find on the subject i have a bad pixel and have to send it in for a sensor change, not looking forward to loosing my camera while its being serviced :( Anyone else expierence this before?
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