No tut reviews this week – but a project “showoff”

My schedule hasn’t allowed me to do tutorial reviews this week. But I did finish a little wallpaper project/test to see how my skills in Photoshop are progressing and to play with a few plugins. Here’s a thumbnail link to the image. (1280×1024).

What it took to do the wall…

• extract the image from the scan, here.
• enhance the feather so it shows up (Outer glow with a gradient was fun to play with. So was tinkering with the technique in the Guru Lounge’s Line Art from a Photo – link in this review at the bottom. Doesn’t just have to be used on a photo.)
• learn about plug-ins so I could use one for the kaledoscope effect.
• learn how to install new brushes, so can use the feathers
• tinkered with different layer effects to get the spiral clouds to show well and yet be able to see the layers below.
• learned how to “jitter” between the foreground and background colors with a brush (for the stars)
• worked with duplicating layers and multiply to get darker effects
• did I forget anything? Probably.

Scan of Spiral anime character from Minitokyo.net

Feather brushes by At0mica.net

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Hope to get a drawing of my own up and colored in photoshop someday – but not there yet…