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Fun with Filters III
I'm still uncharacteristically quiet, I know... it's the season I guess. Fall and I don't match...
also I should start making muffins for a friend's birthday tomorrow and I'm procrastinating. therefore a new tutorial.
it's a kind of how to avoid using brushes everyone is using and come up with something that's a little more versatile. oh, and I'm talking about borders, I should have mentioned that before, huh?
torn/rippled/rounded/etc. border effects
step 01
choose a cap... awww, look it's Wash!
and do some coloring... here I used my light&bright action and then did some adjustments...
crop it. I'm always working on a 200x200 px canvas. I know that's pretty common these days, but in the beginning I always had to state this in my tuts ;)
step 02
- add a new layer and fill it with any color you like for your border. something light, something dark, whatever you feel like.
If I'm going for a color (and not the bold black or white solution) I'm always picking a color from the pic. the result is more organic that way.
- add a layer mask
- make a rectangular selection of your choice and fill it with black on the layer mask (so you can see through the color layer)
we're finished with the basic steps now. from here we're fancying up our borders with filters. we're only working on the layer mask. therefore I'm showing you only the black/white versions now...
step 03
ON YOUR LAYER MASK:
crystal/torn paper
- use Filter - Pixelate - Crystallize
(here I used size 8)
- use Filter - Sketch - Torn Edges
(here I used
Image Balance: 35
Smoothness: 10
Contrast: 15)
- and the result
- after a little more playing :)
grungy
- use Filter - Distort - Wave with the following settings:
Number of Generators: 5
Wavelength: 15/120
Amplitude: 5/35
Scale: 8%/8
- use Filter - Distort - Glass with the following settings:
Distortion: 3
Smootheness: 4
Texture: frosted
Scaling: 100%
- the result
- and a variation (other settings for the Glass filter)
- after a little more playing :)
fashionably rounded
- use Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur
(here I used size 6.0)
- use Filter - Sharpen - Unsharpen Mask with the following settings:
Amount: 375%
Radius: 10,9 pixels
Treshold: 106 levels
- and the result
- after only very little playing (I kinda got distracted by an email and lost focus...)
conclusion
the advantage of using these techniques is that you can draw the border at any size you want.
of course you can also use them to make brushes that you can reapply whenever you want, but I prefer another method.
I save the filters into actions, so that I can recall them very fast whenever I want to use them on my layer masks, where I can draw the basic shape by myself.
here are the borderactions, btw :)
please comment, if you're DLing them.
have fun!
off to make the muffins, and why the hell is the damn VM torrent so slow. and YSI kicked me out. again. *sigh* see, fall and I? are no friends...
also I should start making muffins for a friend's birthday tomorrow and I'm procrastinating. therefore a new tutorial.
it's a kind of how to avoid using brushes everyone is using and come up with something that's a little more versatile. oh, and I'm talking about borders, I should have mentioned that before, huh?
torn/rippled/rounded/etc. border effects
step 01
choose a cap... awww, look it's Wash!
and do some coloring... here I used my light&bright action and then did some adjustments...
crop it. I'm always working on a 200x200 px canvas. I know that's pretty common these days, but in the beginning I always had to state this in my tuts ;)
step 02
- add a new layer and fill it with any color you like for your border. something light, something dark, whatever you feel like.
If I'm going for a color (and not the bold black or white solution) I'm always picking a color from the pic. the result is more organic that way.
- add a layer mask
- make a rectangular selection of your choice and fill it with black on the layer mask (so you can see through the color layer)
we're finished with the basic steps now. from here we're fancying up our borders with filters. we're only working on the layer mask. therefore I'm showing you only the black/white versions now...
step 03
ON YOUR LAYER MASK:
crystal/torn paper
- use Filter - Pixelate - Crystallize
(here I used size 8)
- use Filter - Sketch - Torn Edges
(here I used
Image Balance: 35
Smoothness: 10
Contrast: 15)
- and the result
- after a little more playing :)
grungy
- use Filter - Distort - Wave with the following settings:
Number of Generators: 5
Wavelength: 15/120
Amplitude: 5/35
Scale: 8%/8
- use Filter - Distort - Glass with the following settings:
Distortion: 3
Smootheness: 4
Texture: frosted
Scaling: 100%
- the result
- and a variation (other settings for the Glass filter)
- after a little more playing :)
fashionably rounded
- use Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur
(here I used size 6.0)
- use Filter - Sharpen - Unsharpen Mask with the following settings:
Amount: 375%
Radius: 10,9 pixels
Treshold: 106 levels
- and the result
- after only very little playing (I kinda got distracted by an email and lost focus...)
conclusion
the advantage of using these techniques is that you can draw the border at any size you want.
of course you can also use them to make brushes that you can reapply whenever you want, but I prefer another method.
I save the filters into actions, so that I can recall them very fast whenever I want to use them on my layer masks, where I can draw the basic shape by myself.
here are the borderactions, btw :)
please comment, if you're DLing them.
have fun!
off to make the muffins, and why the hell is the damn VM torrent so slow. and YSI kicked me out. again. *sigh* see, fall and I? are no friends...