These are beautiful! I really like your blending of the second cover! - I don't suppose you ever did a tutorial for that one? I would sure love to learn :)
Thank you! :) I've never done a tutorial before. I'm not sure I know what I'm doing half the time lol. But I'll at least tell you what I can. The top portion of the second poster has very little done to it, actually. That was the easiest part of the whole thing. the vertical lines were made using the running Lisbon screencap and 'motion blur'. From there I just placed it over the image and set the blending mode to 'screen'. I think I erased a tiny bit around Lisbon's face so the lines wouldn't be directly over it. The bottom portion of the poster was done the same way, I believe. The center is the just a 'torn pages' brush. For the little running Lisbon I used 'motion blur' again, but only on the area surrounding her. I used the quick selection tool for this. I'm sure I used eraser to help with the blending, and I do believe that it's more than one layer of that image in different blending modes. Umm, I used curves for the coloring and a second curve layer to brighten things, and I'm pretty sure the dodge tool to bring out some of the
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LOL That's exactly the way I do icons - I fiddle around until I like it or it ends in the virtual bin XD
Thank you for the explanation! I think I more or less got how you did it... But I see you use 'curves', so it's Photoshop you use, right? I'll have to see if I can manage to improvise with Gimp...
Another question...? Where did you get the 'torn pages' brush?
A lot ends up in the virtual bin before I get to something I like lol.
I do use Photoshop. I googled Gimp and 'curves' and found some tutorials out there for it, so maybe you can get it somehow? If not you could probably get something similar if there's an 'exposure' and 'color balance' option.
I am so bad about keeping track of where I get my resources. I started the resource page on my LJ, but I keep forgetting to update it : / More than likely I got it off deviantart.com somewhere. I would just search for "torn pages brush". The actual file name is tears.abr, which you could search by on google.
I'm so disorganized. Sorry if I wasn't a huge help : /
Some of those tutorials are 'translatable', others not. - I really wonder how so many people can afford Photoshop; Gimp is free and pretty neat for that :)
Thank you, I managed to find a Gimp brush over on DeviantArt!
Photoshop is expensive and I've heard a lot of people say how much they love Gimp. I didn't really know about it before getting PS. I might have made a different choice if I had.
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Thank you for the explanation! I think I more or less got how you did it... But I see you use 'curves', so it's Photoshop you use, right? I'll have to see if I can manage to improvise with Gimp...
Another question...? Where did you get the 'torn pages' brush?
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I do use Photoshop. I googled Gimp and 'curves' and found some tutorials out there for it, so maybe you can get it somehow? If not you could probably get something similar if there's an 'exposure' and 'color balance' option.
I am so bad about keeping track of where I get my resources. I started the resource page on my LJ, but I keep forgetting to update it : / More than likely I got it off deviantart.com somewhere. I would just search for "torn pages brush". The actual file name is tears.abr, which you could search by on google.
I'm so disorganized. Sorry if I wasn't a huge help : /
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Thank you, I managed to find a Gimp brush over on DeviantArt!
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Yay! I'm glad you were able to find one :)
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