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6 More Cool Photoshop Effects for DIY Photo-Art Prints
Now that the word ‘Photoshop' has become a verb (meaning: the process of lying through photograph) as well as a brand name, a lot of the discussion has been diverted from what the program can actually legitimately and ethically do! Today we check out some cool Photoshop effects to add to your photos before sending them for canvas printing, creating artistic, but certainly not dishonest, art prints!
Halftone dots and linear light
This is a gorgeous over-exposed, newspaper-ish look. It is also very simple to do! You just need to:
- Duplicate the photo in another layer
- Make your foreground colour white, and background black
- Select Filter > Sketch > Halftone Pattern. Play around to find settings you like
- Press Ctrl+I to invert the image
- In the Layers Palette change the mode from Normal to Linear Light
- All done!
Retro comic book look
This takes a little longer, but is an awesome effect for kid's photos. Here's how to create canvas prints that look like enlargements of comic books:
- Increase the overall contrast of the pic using your Levels toolbox
- Go to Filters>Artistic> Film Grain and play around with the settings to suit your picture and yourself.
- Duplicate the layer and name it ‘halftone' or something you'll recognise and understand!
- Go to Filter>Pixelate>Halftone. Set the max radius to 4, and leave the default values for the other options.
- Go to your Layers Pallette and choose Darken for the Blending Mode
This gives you a comic-book style picture, and you can use either Photoshop or another picture editor to add comic book style text boxes around your pic.
Backlit silhouettes
The picture in the example is a little clichéd, I realise – but if you can envision this effect with a silhouette of your kids walking against a sunset background, or yourself sitting under a tree, you have an awesome canvas art print idea in your mind! This is how you do it:
- Cut the image that you want to keep as a silhouette out from the background. If you're a Photoshop newbie, you may need a separate tutorial for that part – there are a hundred different methods.
- Go to your Layers Palette and set blending options to Colour Overlay, and the colour itself to black. You now have a black silhouette on a white background
- Go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Gradient. Choose the Radial option, and make sure the lighter colours are set towards the centre.
- Select your silhouette layer and got to Layer> Add Layer Mask> Reveal All. Set the foreground colour to black and use a large, soft brush over the sides of the silhouette to turn them transparent.
- In the example you can see that a small piece of the original guitar has been added for depth. You can do this with a face in your picture if you like – cut your piece out, and go to Image>Adjustments> Desaturate. Set the blending mode to Multiply, and opacity to 60-70%. Use a very soft eraser to soften the edges of the new layer if you like
- Copy your silhouette layer, and change the overlay colour (in Bending Options_ to white. Go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur, and set 3-4 pixels.
Photoshop has so much potential for creating your own art, and it takes very little knowledge … and just a tiny bit of imagination to create beautiful canvas art prints!
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How does Silly Putty "pick up" comic/newspaper print?
And..I would like to know how it does this in color even!
Silly Putty is well-known for its ability to pick up ink from the newspaper. But you probably observed that the Silly Putty does not pick up all inks that you tested. The reason it picks up some inks and not others is due to differences in solubility.
A rule of thumb for solubility of two substances is “like dissolves like.” Polar substances (such as water or alcohol) will dissolve other polar substances. Likewise, nonpolar substances (such as oil and fat) will dissolve other nonpolar substances. However, polar and nonpolar substances (oil and water) do not dissolve in each other.
Newsprint ink is a pigment suspended in oil (a nonpolar substance) which is adsorbed by the paper. Since Silly Putty picks up the ink from the newsprint, we can infer that it must also be a nonpolar material. The pigment-oil suspension of the newsprint ink is readily adsorbed by Silly Putty. Our oily skin often picks up newsprint for the same reason.
From this activity, we can also infer that the inks the Silly Putty did not pick up are polar substances and therefore are not readily picked up by the nonpolar Silly Putty.
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Drawing Gore in Comics: A Very Valid Artist Ally If Not Too Explicit
I once had to draw a comic book panel where a Sheriff hit a Zombie with a rifle.
The specific instructions by the writer were that the Sheriff had to swing the rifle as if it were a baseball bat. And that the Zombie had to go down to the floor unconscious.
Knocking a Zombie out is a major deal so the baseball-bat-like-blow had to look very impressive.
But also this presented an opportunity to add gore to the drawing.
Zombies look disgusting, they're losing parts, have open wounds. Adding gore to this action panel seemed like a good idea. Or was it not?
Well, this was going to be the very first gory panel in the graphic novel. Our readers were not used to this. But I did like the idea and so they could like it too.
So I went ahead with it.
But to minimize the potential "shock", gore should be mild to moderate at the most.
The first thing to do was to decide on the most effective camera angle. The reader had to know exactly what was going on, and the drawing should not be too explicit.
I placed the camera a little above the two characters and behind the Zombie.
As per the artwork itself, it should shout "BAAAM!" without the need of sound effects and it should be gory, but not "too" gory.
When I sent the drawing to the writer and editor for their comments and approval (or rejection), they were surprised with it but liked it. On the other hand, some readers who were shown the drawing at that time didn't like it; they thought it was too gory.
The drawing ended up being approved and it was included in the final, printed comic. It has been well received by most readers.
You can see the gory drawing below:
View the entire comic book page here
Conclusion: Unless you are drawing comics for a very young age or your comics must be very family oriented, adding mild to moderate gore to your drawings when the opportunity presents, it is a very valid and powerful ally to make your artwork stand out. This catches the reader's attention, and makes the overall comic more entertaining.
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