Firstly we’d like to say a big thank you to Ben Willmore for helping publicise our Flypaper textures on his very informative live podcast last Monday and Tuesday! I’ve managed to watch around half of the many hours so far, and I have to say after downloading the HD copy and watching it when I choose rather than see the realtime transmitted version, its much clearer and easier to see his Photoshop tutorials and well worth the 75 USD download price for the full two days crash creative course, so that you can stop it and replay as much as you like, I also understand a full PDF script will be available soon, so you can then crib from the notes.
I’ve so far particularly enjoyed his stylizing/painterly tutorials and Ive picked up a great new way of finessing the painterly effect without getting those nasty affects when you use the normal Photoshop paint filters. The above image was made with the CS paint filter and has some ugly pixelated effects under her arms and around the dress pattern, so I re-watched his tutorial just now and reprocessed using his very own ‘Defused Glow’ technique and I have to say it worked a treat!
Other tutorials include getting to grips with smart filters and masking, showing the pro way to mask textures and our Flypaper Textures with and without the Adobe Paper Panel Flypaper Textures. He also shows how to use the new CS oil paint filters with masking and I’m delighted to say its the clearest way Ive ever seen them demonstrated. The full 2 day course will be repeated on the 1st August or just buy it now!
My featured photograph was taken this week, the lady just caught my eye, I liked her pose as she stood at the sea’s edge and I whipped out my camera which just happened to have a Lensbaby Optic 80 attached and was lucky enough to have her mostly in focus. I think she was looking down at her cute little dachshund/sausage dog that came and sat right in the middle of my beach towel, much to her embarrassment and my delight! The Lensbaby was angled down, you can tell this by the dark top edge of the before mouse-over image, this I quickly cloned out, its easy when you intend to texture as you don’t need to be perfect, though mine was good this time. I easily cloned out the bathers and sea bobbers and boats as they added nothing.
The green/yellow glowing colour was achieved in Nik color efex pro, and I saved the recipe to share.
I finally finished with 2 flypaper textures, which helped add interest and a painterly quality to the negative space.
Nik Color Processing
Cross processing filter 4 @ 47%
Graduated filter 3 opacity @ 26% top only
Reflector Efex Gold @ 27% light intensity
Flypaper Textures Used
Moleskin @Soft Light 100%
Brushed Rose @ Soft Light 100%
Moleskin and Brushed Rose are from the Summer Painterly Pack.
Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures.