» tutorial 003; even the best fall down sometimes
As requested by vincibility! ♥
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A few notes, before we start:
» This icon was originally posted here, for Round 07 at inspired20in20.
» Program: Photoshop CS5, but almost everything should be transferable (I think?) as long as your program has curves.
» Difficulty: Super easy.
Here's the original image, but I forget where it's from lol. As you can see, it's already a stunning image to begin with, so I didn't really have to do much colouring-wise haha.
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1. I started off with a new 100x100 canvas, resized it to 300x300, and then dragged the image over to the canvas. Then I used the eyedropper tool to grab a colour from the background and made a new fill layer with that colour and dragged it below the image. Finally, I copy merged everything (CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-E) and took a light opacity soft brush and smudged the background so it was seamlessly smooth.
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2. Alright, now for the text! The lyrics were from Love and Some Verses, by Iron and Wine. All of the font was a simple black DaunPenh, centered and with anti-alias set to strong.
Here's a breakdown of my text, by line:
(1) LOVE
(2) IS A DRESS
(3) THAT YOU
(4) MADE LONG /
(5) TO HIDE
(6) YOUR KNEES
(7) LOVE
(8) TO SAY THIS
(1) Size 41 pt, line spacing 14 pt, tracking -60.
(2) Size 17 pt, line spacing 10 pt, tracking 20.
(3) Size 18 pt, line spacing 11 pt, tracking 0.
(4) Size 13 pt, line spacing 8 pt, tracking 20.
(5) Size 21 pt, line spacing 13 pt, tracking 30.
(6) Size 14 pt, line spacing 9 pt, tracking 30.
(7) Size 41 pt, line spacing 22 pt, tracking -60.
(8) Size 14 pt, line spacing 8 pt, tracking 30.
The basic explanation for this is that I wanted the text to be a rectangular block the same width as her. I messed with the size of certain words in order to emphasize them, and then adjusted the line spacing and tracking accordingly to fit the words into the same width and with roughly the same distance between each line.
Then I duplicated the layer and right-click rasterized it so it could be blurred (FILTER > BLUR > BLUR).
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3. But boo! It's covering her everywhere. So, I created a layer mask and took a smallish sized 60% opacity brush to get rid of the parts that cover her. Finally, I set it to soft light 100%. It's so faint though! So then I duplicated it five times and then I had a slightly softer version of what I started out with, ~tada~
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4. This texture by vividtruth was inversed, and then set to screen 100%.
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5. Now some simple colouring! New fill layer (#4882aa) set to soft light 100%, and then a new curves layer with the following settings, with the asterisks indicating new curve points:
RED
0, 3 (more blues in the shadows)
255, 249 (make the bright spots redder)
GREEN
0, 24 (more magentas in the shadows)
255, 254 (brighter bright spots?)
BLUE
3, 0 (blues get bluer)
*61, 91 (un-blue the shadows)
*199, 181 (bright blues)
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6. This texture, by midnight_road, set to soft light 100%.
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7. Texture by ellaangelus, set to soft light 75%.
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8. Then I duplicated the base, dragged it way up to the top, gaussian blurred (FILTER > BLUR > GAUSSIAN BLUR > 2.0), set to soft light 100%.
9. And finally, I used the sharpen tool on her eyes and parts of her hair.
So yes, that's all. Haha this one was short! :o If you'd like more on the text or lighting specifically, feel free to ask, but it's all pretty straightforward; most of the work was done either by textures and that one curves layer, or just messing around with size/tracking/line spacing.
Comments would be faaaabulous, and if you have anything else you'd like to ask, feel free to (please!) hit me up here! :)
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A few notes, before we start:
» This icon was originally posted here, for Round 07 at inspired20in20.
» Program: Photoshop CS5, but almost everything should be transferable (I think?) as long as your program has curves.
» Difficulty: Super easy.
Here's the original image, but I forget where it's from lol. As you can see, it's already a stunning image to begin with, so I didn't really have to do much colouring-wise haha.
»
»
1. I started off with a new 100x100 canvas, resized it to 300x300, and then dragged the image over to the canvas. Then I used the eyedropper tool to grab a colour from the background and made a new fill layer with that colour and dragged it below the image. Finally, I copy merged everything (CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-E) and took a light opacity soft brush and smudged the background so it was seamlessly smooth.
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2. Alright, now for the text! The lyrics were from Love and Some Verses, by Iron and Wine. All of the font was a simple black DaunPenh, centered and with anti-alias set to strong.
Here's a breakdown of my text, by line:
(1) LOVE
(2) IS A DRESS
(3) THAT YOU
(4) MADE LONG /
(5) TO HIDE
(6) YOUR KNEES
(7) LOVE
(8) TO SAY THIS
(1) Size 41 pt, line spacing 14 pt, tracking -60.
(2) Size 17 pt, line spacing 10 pt, tracking 20.
(3) Size 18 pt, line spacing 11 pt, tracking 0.
(4) Size 13 pt, line spacing 8 pt, tracking 20.
(5) Size 21 pt, line spacing 13 pt, tracking 30.
(6) Size 14 pt, line spacing 9 pt, tracking 30.
(7) Size 41 pt, line spacing 22 pt, tracking -60.
(8) Size 14 pt, line spacing 8 pt, tracking 30.
The basic explanation for this is that I wanted the text to be a rectangular block the same width as her. I messed with the size of certain words in order to emphasize them, and then adjusted the line spacing and tracking accordingly to fit the words into the same width and with roughly the same distance between each line.
Then I duplicated the layer and right-click rasterized it so it could be blurred (FILTER > BLUR > BLUR).
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3. But boo! It's covering her everywhere. So, I created a layer mask and took a smallish sized 60% opacity brush to get rid of the parts that cover her. Finally, I set it to soft light 100%. It's so faint though! So then I duplicated it five times and then I had a slightly softer version of what I started out with, ~tada~
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4. This texture by vividtruth was inversed, and then set to screen 100%.
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»
5. Now some simple colouring! New fill layer (#4882aa) set to soft light 100%, and then a new curves layer with the following settings, with the asterisks indicating new curve points:
RED
0, 3 (more blues in the shadows)
255, 249 (make the bright spots redder)
GREEN
0, 24 (more magentas in the shadows)
255, 254 (brighter bright spots?)
BLUE
3, 0 (blues get bluer)
*61, 91 (un-blue the shadows)
*199, 181 (bright blues)
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6. This texture, by midnight_road, set to soft light 100%.
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7. Texture by ellaangelus, set to soft light 75%.
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8. Then I duplicated the base, dragged it way up to the top, gaussian blurred (FILTER > BLUR > GAUSSIAN BLUR > 2.0), set to soft light 100%.
9. And finally, I used the sharpen tool on her eyes and parts of her hair.
So yes, that's all. Haha this one was short! :o If you'd like more on the text or lighting specifically, feel free to ask, but it's all pretty straightforward; most of the work was done either by textures and that one curves layer, or just messing around with size/tracking/line spacing.
Comments would be faaaabulous, and if you have anything else you'd like to ask, feel free to (please!) hit me up here! :)