Yesterday’s Shoes.
I went back to the beginning, opened the original header, duplicated the background as a new layer, changed the Hue toward yellow, used the Cutout filter, and erased with a large airbrush tip to get some of the original color on the toe and the corners of the frame. Then I opened a pic of [...]
Yesterday’s Shoes.
The brown creatures and halo are imported from ebay. That is two views of a hand-carved netsuke that I bought and had sent to Miami from China.
In Photoshop, I started by using a filter called Cutout to make the background look paint-by-numberish. It is in the Artistic tab, and it is one of my [...]
Yesterday’s Shoes.
There have been a few hits directed here by search engines from people wanting to use Photoshop to put different heads on certain bodies. Today we will start to understand that process.
Before we get to that, I used a filter called Poster Edges on the shoes. I am a contrast fanatic, and I like that one a whole lot. It [...]
Yesterday’s shoes.
The exploding blocks are a Photoshop filter called Extrude. You can find it in the Filter menu, inside the Stylize menu. Personally, I like to make the blocks small and long like that, those are 6 size, 60 deep, level-based. I duplicated the layer and erased back down to the Plastic Wrap effect on the left shoe [...]
Yesterday’s Shoes.
That was the second day of this ride, and the smoky swirls are created with a Photoshop filter called “Plastic Wrap”. It can be found in the “Artistic” tab within the “Filter” tab.
Before you do anything with filters on an image, you should duplicate the layer you are working on. That way you can [...]
Yesterday’s Shoes.
I will be changing the header on this blog quite often, using Photoshop to alter the image slightly. Then I will tell you how I did it. First days first.
I painted the shoes with Liquitex soft-body acrylics. They are sitting on a maroon pillow on the gold couch. They are Reebok Classics. I used [...]
