RetouchPRO - Blogs http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/ en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:47:33 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg RetouchPRO - Blogs http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/ Super quick painting effect http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/223-super-quick-painting-effect.html Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:14:13 GMT I found this video tutorial by Gavin Hoey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GKip...5&feature=plcp
and have made it into a action, not sure but it could work on older versions of ps

smaller images may need the settings altered
also make sure you have white as your foreground and black as your background ( for the bas relief) although changing the black to a dark colour does look good

I think it is great as a base image and can be tweeked around a bit ( try adjust on it )

Any way have fun please let me know how you get on

Palms
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]]> palms http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/223-super-quick-painting-effect.html Tutoring http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/ftp-jeff/222-tutoring.html Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:07:59 GMT Well I think I may go ahead with the online tutoring.... Watch this space! Well I think I may go ahead with the online tutoring.... Watch this space! ]]> ftp-Jeff http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/ftp-jeff/222-tutoring.html Online retouching tutorials http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/ftp-jeff/221-online-retouching-tutorials.html Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:58:21 GMT Thinking about starting this. Anyone have any ideas? Jeff Thinking about starting this. Anyone have any ideas?

Jeff ]]> ftp-Jeff http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/ftp-jeff/221-online-retouching-tutorials.html links to my tuts etc http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/220-links-my-tuts-etc.html Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:25:01 GMT As they are no longer in my signature here are the links smudging (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/20346-smudging-resources.html) Art history brush (http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-art-resources/18653-tutorial-art-history-brush-ahb-palms-method-photoshop.html)... As they are no longer in my signature here are the links

smudging


Art history brush

sketch and art history brush

And if you want to keep up with what i am doing here is my flikr page

http://www.flickr.com/photos/palms1/

all the best

Palms ]]> palms http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/220-links-my-tuts-etc.html flower brushes http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/219-flower-brushes.html Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:17:51 GMT These are brushes that i made and used on the attached image maybe they will be useful for others to use made in cs2 Palms These are brushes that i made and used on the attached image

maybe they will be useful for others to use

made in cs2

Palms
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]]> palms http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/219-flower-brushes.html fire explosion brush http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/218-fire-explosion-brush.html Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:08:07 GMT red > 100% opacity > blendmode hard light inner glow > orange yellow > 100% opacity > blendmode > hard light]]> I made this brush using a tut by corey baker

use on a separate layer then
add layer styles

outer glow > red > 100% opacity > blendmode hard light

inner glow > orange yellow > 100% opacity > blendmode > hard light
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]]> palms http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/218-fire-explosion-brush.html Turning Day Into Night! http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/gholmes1936/217-turning-day-into-night.html Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:23:54 GMT I needed to find a hopefully easy tutorial for turning day into night. I waded thru a Google search and found two that fit the requirement.

I'll list the URL's next:
http://www.adidap.com/2007/12/10/pho...ay-into-night/

This one might be a bit more detailed and the results show it I think, still easy tho. It's on dpreview.com:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...hread=18581140

Have as much fun as I did ferreting these two out of all the hundreds that came up on Google as Danny suggested doing.

gunnerholmes ]]> gholmes1936 http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/gholmes1936/217-turning-day-into-night.html July 26th http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/ftp-jeff/216-july-26th.html Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:37:14 GMT It is that time of year again... Redken the Hair people want 14 images retoched... As usual, they want them done right away!..

Fine I say.. I just won't spend much time on them. Surprise. they find an extra week! ]]> ftp-Jeff http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/ftp-jeff/216-july-26th.html 2 new sites (to me) this week http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/215-2-new-sites-me-week.html Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:08:32 GMT Image: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2617/5751395398_82eca9b1a2_m.jpg Stumbled across two new websites this week; I was tempted to sign up for a splash page at About.me but was too embarrassed to when I realized my page would have about 20 links.:blush: It appears to be a site that creates...

Stumbled across two new websites this week;

I was tempted to sign up for a splash page at About.me but was too embarrassed to when I realized my page would have about 20 links.:blush: It appears to be a site that creates a splash page with links to all your virtual hang-outs. Why you couldn't do this on a personal website, I dunno. There seems to be no place for false modesty in this social media age.

I'm not a fan of splash pages because it makes you click one-more-time. Ugh. Which is ironic because the theme I trying to get to work on my Wordpress site assumes you're going to have one...I like this theme because it's full page width.

Also came across http://www.oneeyeland.com/ which is worth a peak. There are just so many photography showcase sites out there. I'm wondering which one(s) are worth my time.

I found this designer's website totally charming - especially the text. ]]> Nasturtium http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/215-2-new-sites-me-week.html <![CDATA[3D > 2D]]> http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/214-3d-2d.html Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:24:47 GMT

While I was watching the latest Pirates of the Caribbean in D I started wondering about how 3D 'hacks' what we know about the brain's visual processing.

As 2D artists we're constantly battling with how to render a three dimensional world on a 2D screen or printed page. It's fascinating to me to compare what we know about how the mind parses visual information as opposed to the literal way a camera records an image. So it seems to me the more we, as artists know about the science of seeing can only help us better render convincingly real images. Besides, trying to reverse engineer things like optical illusions is just plain fun. :D ]]> Nasturtium http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/214-3d-2d.html Unorthodox use of Firebug http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/213-unorthodox-use-firebug.html Mon, 23 May 2011 05:17:18 GMT

So I'm playing around with Firebug on Mozilla (it let's you 'try out' CSS on a webpage). Reading white text on a black background is murder to read on my Mac ... so I thought why not change the background color to something less migraine inducing? After I found the code for the background color I replaced the black with a medium gray ... and voila! It worked a treat. I'm thinking this would also work on those sites where there isn't enough contrast between the background and text colors for legibility.

I'm following Chris Coyier's Lynda.com Wordpress course and totally crushing on him. :-) He's a great teacher and has such a nice voice and wonderful manner. ]]> Nasturtium http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/213-unorthodox-use-firebug.html bokeh style ps brush http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/212-bokeh-style-photoshop-brush.html Fri, 20 May 2011 12:02:27 GMT again made yesterday watch your opacity on these ones :) Palms again made yesterday

watch your opacity on these ones :)

Palms
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]]> palms http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/212-bokeh-style-photoshop-brush.html under water bubbles brush ps http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/211-under-water-bubbles-brush-photoshop.html Fri, 20 May 2011 11:59:21 GMT made these yesterday with inspiration from this tutorial

http://photoshop-tutorials.deviantar...%2F78276&qo=50

maybe someone else will like them

Palms
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]]> palms http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/palms/211-under-water-bubbles-brush-photoshop.html unexpected benefit of making a Facebook page http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/210-unexpected-benefit-making-facebook-page.html Thu, 05 May 2011 06:20:12 GMT Image: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5025/5645259249_c9d0c60a01_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancee_art/5645259249/in/photostream/) I finally got around to making a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nancee_art/167325219988975?sk=wall). Part of the process was unfriending...


I finally got around to making a Facebook page. Part of the process was unfriending all my design resource pages in my personal account and then refriending (is that a word?) from my page. What was so nice was cleaning up my news feed. Now I only get the news from family/friends in my personal feed.

It's really nice to have all the Photoshop/art feeds in one place instead of mixed in with status updates.

I still need to rationalize all the different websites I follow; some are on Google Reader, others on Twitter and now I have some within Facebook. It makes no sense to me to get the same news 2 or 3 times so I need to unsubscribe/unfollow any duplication.

I've ended up back at Wordpress for my website. After investigating many, many possibilities I just sat myself down one day and thought, THAT many people can't be wrong. Wordpress must be wildly popular for a reason. I spent about a day being terribly, terribly confused and then I figured it out. Now it pretty much rocks as far as CMS goes. I took advantage of an online sale to buy a customizable theme which has made the design process much more enjoyable.

Now if I could just figure out why I can't get my custom Twitter background to upload. Apparently a jpeg with EXIF data might be the problem.

Adobe Bridge woes
I'd finally had it with Bridge and posted in the Adobe forum that it was driving me nuts with it's slowness and constant crashes. What I hadn't considered was me trying to access large files over wireless was never going to work well. Now I'm much happier using Lightroom to make a little catalog of my images locally and then using Bridge on local files only. ]]> Nasturtium http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/210-unexpected-benefit-making-facebook-page.html should you Squidoo!? http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/209-should-you-squidoo.html Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:07:44 GMT It's hard to balance between promoting your work and producing it.



There are an endless myriad of ways to promote yourself online from simple blogs (Twitter, anyone?) to full blown websites.

I'm having a blast investigating the possibilities - Wix, Weebly, Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger etc. And it's really fun to update my skills since my HTML/Frontpage days. But I seem to be wandering down many, many blind alleys.

It seems that I learn at least one new term a day. Yesterday when playing with Wordpress templates I came across the phrase 'widget-ready', lol.

Right now I have a few feeds that are automatically picked up by my Tumblr blog. I can't seem to resist fiddling with the style of how posts are displayed there.

Is a website ever 'done'? Is it better just to paste, I mean link to some random Squidoo! pages you've made? Does everything have to be viewable on a hand held/mobile device?

It's not really feasible to exhaust all the possibilities. At what point do you say it's good enough? And simply go with it? ]]> Nasturtium http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/blogs/nasturtium/209-should-you-squidoo.html