How to Work with Light and Dark Edges in PhotoshopWritten by Lala C. Ballatan
Want your images to have effects that’ll make it stand out more and show up well on every background tones? With Photoshop, you could achieve these effects for your images by its features that work on light and dark edges. These allow you to work on bringing out best edges of your image – lighten or darken it, anyway you please to match on background tones and make it stand out more. Through highlighting edges of your photo, you also highlight its details. The method of unsharp mask and others like difference of Gaussians increase change in brightness close to each step. This technique’s standard version adds a bright halo along bright edge of step and a dark halo along dark edge. Depending on what effect you’d like for your image, there are advantages in just using one or other. Using both may not do very much to improve your image, though. There are several advantages of using any of effects for edges on real images. One is that it reduces interference between steps or detail and haloes from other, nearby steps. Another thing, light or dark haloes make other features of image stand out better from background. Start doing this effect on your images using Photoshop by following several procedures: 1st step is duplicate layer holding image 2nd step - apply conventional unsharp mask 3rd step - set layer blending mode to “Darken” or “Lighten”. However, you must understand that this only works for 8 bit per channel images – those that can be put into layers but it could function also on 16 bit per channel pictures with Optipix plug-in that allows direct selection of dark or light edges.
| | How to Create Different Textures with PhotoshopWritten by Ariel Velasco
Creating a multitude of textures is easy if you have know-how and Adobe Photoshop. There are numerous plug-ins that you can make use depending on your need and your level of mastery.One such plug-in is Eye Candy: Textures. Eye Candy 5: Textures, a Photoshop Plug-in, is a collection of ten seamless texture generators. The first of three upgrades to Eye Candy 4000, Eye Candy 5: Textures produces a wide variety of texture effects, including snake and lizard skin, fur, brick, stone, and wood. Graphic designers, web developers, and 3D artists can quickly create backgrounds, skins, seamless tiles, and more. Relying on contents of a stock-texture library limits creativity and this is addressed by Eye Candy. Tiling is quick and easy because every filter has a seamless-tile option. Eye Candy 5: Textures includes settings for over 200 frequently used effects. Creating great artworks can be done quickly saving artist an ample amount of time and energy. A new settings system makes it easy to explore these effects. The ability to save and export makes sharing settings a snap. Eye Candy 5: Textures works with 16-bit images and does not compromise expanded color depth. Color transitions are smoother and print documents reproduce colors more accurately.
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