Okay for the “Translucency challenge” I walked around the house trying to find a translucent object to take a picture of. I played with smoked glass, my scanner’s dust cover and a frosted picture frame, but I just wasn’t coming up with any ideas from these items. Then I came across some bubble-wrap. After enjoying a childish moment of popping a few bubbles (who can resist) I went outside with my digital camera and took a picture of the sky while holding the bubble wrap in front of the camera.. I also took a photo of one of the hanging baskets in the backyard.
Here is how I did it:
1. Opened the photos in PhotoShop. Decided to use the sky through bubble-wrap as my background. Made a duplicate copy of it and change the layer to color dodge with opacity set at 100%. This created the intense blue look.
2. Next I looked at the photo of the hanging basket and lassoed a flower stem out of it and copied and pasted it onto its own layer between the background layer and the color dodge layer.
3. I gave the flower layer an outer glow of blue. Mode Color Dodge. Opacity 50%. Blur 50. Intensity 370. Then duplicated the layer to increase the intensity.
4. I duplicated the layer one more time, but this time I used a glow of purple.
5. The picture still needed a little oomph so I played with some lighting effects with the triple spotlight using blue lighting on the top flower layer.
6. The flower still was dark in areas so I erased different areas on the different layers to help the background show through and give it that translucent look.
7. Next I added a lens flare effect to the center of the flower to a lower flower layer.
8. Finally I added the text, added a drop shadow, and lowered the opacity to 60%.
Here is how I did it:
1. Opened the photos in PhotoShop. Decided to use the sky through bubble-wrap as my background. Made a duplicate copy of it and change the layer to color dodge with opacity set at 100%. This created the intense blue look.
2. Next I looked at the photo of the hanging basket and lassoed a flower stem out of it and copied and pasted it onto its own layer between the background layer and the color dodge layer.
3. I gave the flower layer an outer glow of blue. Mode Color Dodge. Opacity 50%. Blur 50. Intensity 370. Then duplicated the layer to increase the intensity.
4. I duplicated the layer one more time, but this time I used a glow of purple.
5. The picture still needed a little oomph so I played with some lighting effects with the triple spotlight using blue lighting on the top flower layer.
6. The flower still was dark in areas so I erased different areas on the different layers to help the background show through and give it that translucent look.
7. Next I added a lens flare effect to the center of the flower to a lower flower layer.
8. Finally I added the text, added a drop shadow, and lowered the opacity to 60%.
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