CIOS 152 Project 5 Focus and Filters

Okay i have to admit that i have had a lot of fun with filters before this class. My digital Photography class did nothing up filters on our photos. Once i saw this project i knew exactly what i wanted, i wanted to do a sketched on paper look, a Comic book inked look, and a neon sign look.

For the neon sign look i duplicated my photo so i still had the default to fall back on. I had done a neon sign photo in my photography class so i new that i was going to use the glowing edges filter. Against what you would think, you would think to use the neon glow filter but it kills all the color that i wanted to keep. I placed the settings for the filter at EDGE WIDTH = 1, EDGE BRIGHTNESS = 10, and SMOOTHNESS = 7. After that i played with the opacity until i was happy and there it was.

The second photo, which is my comic book inked was inspired by all the marvel, DC, and other comic book brands that have come out with movies. So i wanted to bring us back to what they came form. What i remember from comics were the ink blots and the hard inks. So I used a Poster Edges filter because i remembered how it made a ink effect. however the default were way off from what i wanted. So i changed the settings too EDGE THICKNESS = 0, EDGE INTENSITY = 10, PASTEURIZATION = 0. This gave me the thinnest ink which was funny too me cause i was bringing back the think ink to make the letters readable.

The last photo i decided to try something i didn't already know how to do. So i wanted to do a paper sketch of the photo. Now i know that it's not the most original idea but i didn't use any of the SKETCH filters. I did most of this with layers and a wonderful filter. First i made a few duplicates of the picture, i then desaturated two to make it black and white, i decided on a pencil drawing look. I then inversed the top layer to make it more pencil on paper and not chalk on black board. So this is where i frustrated, i went down the list of blends to find something to make it work and i just couldn't. But you know the greatest things come from accidents, i had the image on color dodge which made the whole thing white which is why i was mad and was goofing off. So i started to play with the key board just hitting random keys as i was mad with myself. I hit some keys and it gave my the photo you see know, only after hitting back and forward a few times did i find out that i had added a Gaussian blur to the photo which was the last filter i had used on a different project i was doing. So i guess i had to share credit with this form of pencil drawing with my computer lol.

CIOS 152 Project 4 Zac the Cat

This was a very fun project, my only regret is that I colored inside the lines, my inner 6 year old is screaming at me.
To start I opened a new document in Photoshop in 700 by 700 pixels. I then started a new layer and placed the Zac Cat half image. Then I duplicated the layer and flipped it horizontally. I moved the image into place to the point where I feel it was even. I then merged the layers. After that I went to Color range under the select menu and used the eye dropper tool to select the black. This gives my all the black of that value, I then inverted the selection and erased all the white, it did take a little bit of black away from the edges but overall it helped sharpen my image because it was a little blurry from where I placed it. After that I locked the pixels it’s the little checker board button in the layers tab. I then colored the black lines in different colors. After that I duplicated the layer and filled the white spaces in the lower of the two layers with the paint bucket tool. Then I added texture twice on the lower of the two layers the first is the nose which I used the clouds texture on hard light blending. The second texture Metal Landscape I used for the face. I used texture and the black dots to bring the lookers eyes out form the complex textures to the clean easy solid colors on the outside to see the whole picture.

Quick ref ;P

1. Open new document
2. Make new layer
3. Place image
4. Duplicate layer
5. Flip horizontally
6. Merge layers
7. Color range from select menu select black lines
8. Invert selection
9. Erase white
10. Lock transparent pixels and then color
11. Duplicate layer and fill in white spaces with color on the lower image
12. Add texture to layer with brush on lower image (use a blend mode)
13. Then save as Photoshop file and JPG