Adventures in Photoshop

Monday, February 7, 2011

Fun With Postcards

Okay, go over here
http://my2econdskin.blogspot.com/

Jerry Jones has made some amazing postcard textures. Really lovely work.
I just spent part of my night playing with them. Here are a few.

©Neonsun studios 2011

Stop by Flickr and check out some of the great art being made there. It's important to have someone to look up to. :)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ghostworks/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/pareeerica/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/904485@N20/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1234982@N24/

Tons of tutorials:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/itsanaddiction/

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Hello. I notice a lot of new followers. Welcome, it's nice to have you here.
Also I see a few old, regulars (you know who you are) popping in.

I also noticed that I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. I decided I'd focus on trying to sell a few things on Etsy and have been doing some cut and paste ATCs. So I have been producing a lot; but not learning and stretching as much as usual. I miss that.

So nothing new for tonight in the form of technique; but just wanted to stop by and thank everyone for hanging in there.

I do have a new ACEO I'd like to share though. Thanks to TumbleFish Studio for my favourite strong man image. I'm growing quite fond of him.

Thanks to LandofNod for the great metallic background and other elements.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Picasso, the Bicycle. NASA and my Eyeball

Maybe it's having the honor of seeing the actual Bicycle sculpture by Picasso last week. I remember hearing about it when I was a teenager. Something clicked and I've always looked for beauty and art in the everyday.

I found this NASA photo on Flickr in The Creative Commons some time ago. I've been itching to do something with this photo for awhile now.

Then tonight it came together when I found a great Mask by Brenda Starr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/5176203937/in/pool-1402378@N22

I happened to have the other part of the eye laying around thanks to Loveandstyle at Deviant Art.

And it all came together at once.

Thank you Picasso.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

NEW FACE, OLD BLOG

In the never ending quest for faster page loading I redesigned my blog. You may have had some difficulties waiting for my blog to load. I don't want you to get fed up so I've done the change. It seems to have improved loading time.

So don't be shy, tell me what you think. Do you love it or hate it. Make a comment.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Ladies Adjust your colour and your curves

Okay, just a quick post before I fall asleep on my keyboard. Your homework is to play with Levels and Adjust Curves. Grab a graphic and a background to work with. Click on the Enhance tab and you will find Adjust lighting-->levels. Believe me you'll have hours of fun.

But when you get bored check out Enhance-->Adjust colour-->Adjust colour curves. Even more fun. That's it. And don't forget to play. Promise yourself you are not going to keep the end result. Allow yourself to go wild.

If you do something you don't like the Edit-->Revert to get back to the original. Or you can delete moves by hitting Command Z (on the mac). That simple keystroke can really enhance creativity, just knowing you can go backwards. Have fun and play, play, play.

It's just that easy. This photo consists of 2 layers, and a Drop Shadow. I defringed the image but not enough. I went in at 25 and I could have upped it to 35 or even 40.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

3,000 Views - Somebody Must Really Like my Blog

WOW! 1,000 views in just over a month!

That's great! I guess I'm doing something right. I guess I should do a giveaway or something. Well, it's 3 am sofor now I'll just give everyone a big

THANK YOU FOR CHECKING OUT MY BLOG!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Etsy Workout

I've been working hard on my Etsy shop. In particular, I have been beefing up my collage sheets of ATC backgrounds. I'm never sure how far to go with these. They are backgrounds after all. I want to leave some room for creativity. If you want, stop by and check it out.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/NeonSun

Feel free to comment on them or convo me. These are some I've worked on in the last few days.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

TEXT

Okay I found this tutorial on http://www.flickr.com/groups/itsanaddiction/discuss/72157624929873748/ on Flickr.
Here's a direct link. http://www.creativepro.com/article/fill-text-images-photoshop
It's been driving me crazy all night. Maybe it's the television blaring in the background and I really CAN'T multitask after all. I don't know. Have you ever thought a tutorial was easy and then couldn't figure it out?
Go ahead and try. If you come up with a perfect result after following it exactly, don't send me the result, it will just make me crazier. Who knows, maybe it's just an off day. Anyways some of the results I got are alright but they just don't look as clean as the examples. Good luck.