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Water Fun free Scrapbook design |
 Jolene Neo July 17th, 2007 |
Do you have Adobe Photoshop? I would say photoshop is the best photo editing tools in the market. I simply cant do without it for my design work. Check out the step by step instruction on achieving the effect below.
- Select your favorite water play photo. Open file in photoshop.
- If you have a vertical photo like mine, you need to rotate the photo. Go menu > Image > Rotate Canvas > 90CW
- Now, adjust the colour to a cool tone. Go menu > Image > Adjustments > Photo Filter. You may play around the the settings. In my example, I have used “Cooling Filter (80) & Density as 40%.
- Now under the layer palette, duplicate the “background” layer by dragging into the “new” layer icon. Renamed the new layer as “Hardlight”
- Change the “Hardlight” layer to “Hard Light” mode.
- Under the layer palette, click on the “adjustment layer” icon. A level menu will pop up. In this example, I have adjust the black slider so that the photo appear to be darker.
- Next, you need to downloaded a photoshop brush from DevianTart. This brush was designed by Ca~pris. This brush will be used to create the curly graphic in front of the photo.
- You need to enlarge this Brush as this brush was prepared in 72dpi. In the download package. Open “inframed_02.jpg”. Go menu > Image Size. Unchecked the “Constrain Proportion” first. Key in the exact numbers below. This is the most important step. You need to select “Bicubic Smoother” under resample image. Click ok.
- Now select the photo that have edited in step 6. Go to the layer palette. Select the “more” arrow & click “Flatten Image”
- Select the whole canvas (ctrl + A) . Copy the image. Now paste into the “inframed_02.jpg” that you enlarged in step 8 above.
- You need to duplicate the “Background layer” twice by dragging the layer into the new layer icon. Rename one to “Frame” & the other one to “Frameblur”
- Set both layer to Darken mode. It should now look like the screen below.
- With “FrameBlur” layer selected, Go Menu > Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set radius to 10
- Now I want you to click on the New layer icon to create a new layer. Rename layer as “Softlight” & set layer mode as “Soft Light”. You should noticed the my thumbnail for that layer had some yellow/red/green spot. To create that, you need to select the “brush” Tool. Set Diameter as “600″ & Hardness as “0%”. Start to paint the canvas. Select your desire colour. (hint, you need to select some bright colours as we have changed the layer mode to soft light)
- Now your canvas should look something like this.
- Now I want you to use the Clone Stamp Tool that you learn in Winter Sonata Photo Retouching Tip (Step 5-8) to stamp the water to cover the whole canvas if your photo happens to be vertical.
- With the photo layer selected, Click on the “Add Vector Mask” icon. Use the brush to mask out the areas that you wish to hide.
- Finally, you should get something like this! For adding that wavy text. Stay tune to my blog!
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July 17th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Hehehe like that consider first? lol….
July 17th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Interesting leh… din know that photoshop can edit pic till so nice… Thanks to your tutorial, i managed to remove the “hand” on my photos…
July 17th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
This is so cool..
I didn’t know why there was so many windows at the side in Adobe photoshop and didn’t know why we can open so many windows.. now I know its all about creating layers and combining them..
Thanks!
July 17th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
You deserved it! Congrats. I will send you the info shortly!
July 17th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Yeh!!
I will select 3 best photos for you…
Really need to “Bai Shi” liao.. heheh will keep a lookout for ur blog on the steps to do scrapbooks.. U really a pro…
July 17th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
July 18th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Nice blog…Thank you! Keep up the good work
July 18th, 2007 at 9:44 am
thans crepin
July 18th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Thank you for this most awesome tutorial.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Gee… this is interesting!! Me so sua ku…. didnt know this can be done! Now I learn something new
July 20th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Thans Ani.
must work hard
Snowwhite..you are not swa ku…..That are many things you can do with your photos..check out my blog for all the instruction. I will be teaching you all how i tranfrom my baby’s photo too in subsequent postings.
July 21st, 2007 at 10:01 am
It so beautiful, creative too..thank you for sharing the tips.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I haven’t got the time to try this out. Once I do will post it in my boy’s blog and will definitely let ya know
August 2nd, 2007 at 8:59 am
This is really nice…too bad i dun have Adobe Photoshop and can use only powerpoint to do simple scrapbooking
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful software… even ugly women can be transformed into a beauty using this software
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Yah I heard from friends can diminish pimples, sharpen face and etc… hahahah
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
wow, then it can also hide away the dark circles, crooked tooth etc la
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Eunice, I’m sure Dark circles sure can.. rem in one post, someone say can reconstruct part of the hand? heheh
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Oh Yes! Photoshop Does wonders..
have you seen my this posting? See how i change my friends photo..i have the step by step instruction.
I am a strong lover for photoshop
http://www.freescrapbookzone.com/2007/06/24/winter-sonata-photo-retouching-tip/
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:47 pm
U still have not enlighten us how to put in the wavy text lei or hmmm… maybe I’ll try it out myself.
August 3rd, 2007 at 12:25 am
Yee… I can’t find Step 3 in my photoshop lei… I go to Image> Adjustments but couldn’t find Photo Filter
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:01 am
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:05 am
Grace, ic ic.
Jolene, GIMP can do this too?
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:15 am
It might be possible. I have installed GIMP & tried using once. I saw some functions are similar to photoshop. But I need some time to adjust as i am very used to photoshop. But nevertheless, photoshop is still the BEST
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:43 am
Jolene, oh ok. Sorry to keep bombing u with so many qn on GIMP. I dun have Adobe Photoshop and if GIMP can have the same function (since it’s free), I can still do complicated designs like urs, which wld be great!!!
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:47 am
Mine shd be a beri old version. Will check it out tonight.
August 4th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Mine is Adobe Photoshop 7.0… very old version, right
August 4th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I’m using Adobe Photoshop CS2..
Is that new or old?
August 6th, 2007 at 8:48 am
think the latest is Adobe Photoshop CS3 if i remember correctly..Jolene hor?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:02 am
ya.photoshop 7 is kinda old. Try to find if you can get the latest..!!
August 6th, 2007 at 9:58 am
What’s new or different in CS3?
August 6th, 2007 at 10:49 am
For more info, you might wanna read the reviews here.
http://www.macworld.com/2007/04/reviews/photoshopcs3/index.php
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0612/06121402photoshopcs3beta.asp
August 6th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Hmmm… Jolene, I get what u meant
Guess I really gotta find a newer version, if not there’s no way I’ll be able to follow your tutorials
August 8th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Grace, like that i see no light already to follow Jolene’s tutorial cos i dun have the software..
October 15th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
i like your lil girl! she’s very lovely!
but i cant download the brush cos its no longer valid.
do you think i can download from you? erm, if you are ok with my request, heh, wanna do something like this for my bf
November 27th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Let me check if i can find the brush..