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Make Your Own Comic

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Open a new document in photoshop 600×445 px.

Find or use an image you already have of a face. I chose this one:

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Place it in the photoshop document by copying and pasting. Place it wherever you see fit.

Go to Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone…

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Use the following settings:

Your image will look like this:

Select the ellipse tool from the tools palette.

Use the following settings:

Place an ellipse where you would like a speech bubble.

Right click in the ellipse and select fill path:

Use the following settings:

Select the pen tool from the tools palette.

Draw a triangle to show the origin of where the speech is coming from.

Right click on the layer and choose Blending Options.

Use the following settings:

Fill the background layer with black.

Go to Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone…

Use the following settings:

Do this 2 times.

Your image will look like this:

Select the Text tool from the tools palette.

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Now write whatever text you would like directly over the speech bubble.

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Add Bubbles to an Image

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Open an image you would like to put bubbles into in photoshop.

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Duplicate the layer by pressing Command J.

Select the Circular Marquee tool from the tools palette.

Make a circle over the area you would like to create a bubble..

Go to Filter > Distort > Spherize…

Use the following settings:

Hit OK.

Create a new layer and name it Bubble.

Make the foreground color a light blue of your choice.

Select the gradient tool from the tools palette.

Use the following settings:

Use the gradient inside the circle selection to create a “bubble” effect.

Right click to bring up blending options, and select the stroke style. Use the following settings:

Repeat these steps in different areas to create more bubbles.

*Make sure when you “Spherize” that you are on the Image layer.

BEFORE:                                                                                          AFTER:

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Colorful Background – Photoshop Lesson

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Open a new document size 800x800px. In photoshop.

Now we’re going to add a gradient in the background from black to white. First hit the letter “D” on the keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to default. Then, select the Gradient Tool (G) and drag from the bottom of the window to the top. You should come up with something like this:

Background

Next we’re going to select Filter > Distort > Wave in the menu bar and use the following settings. You can change these to generate various effects.

Now choose Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates, and use the default settings. This is what it will look like:

With the layer selected choose Filter > Distort > Twirl and set the angle to about 185 degrees.

Now that we have our swirl base we’re going to add some cool colors.  To do this select the little circle at the bottom of the layers palette and select Gradient.

After this select the rectangle to the right of the word “Gradient:” and select the gradient that looks like a rainbow and select ok.


Change the layer style to Multiply.

Here is your background!

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Channel Palette and Layer Masking

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

In this tutorial, we will be using Photoshop’s Channel Palette along with Layer Masking to learn an easy technique that can be used to remove the background from an image.

STEP 1: Find an image to use for the tutorial and open it up in Photoshop. This technique works best with an image that has a solid and/or clearly defined background. For this tutorial I used a stock image from sxc.hu which can be found here: http://www.sxc.hu/pic/l/c/co/colinbroug/1284789_21675104.jpg

STEP 2: Find the appropriate channel to use as a base for your mask. To do this, click on the Channels Palette, and look for the channel that separates the background from the foreground with the most contrast. In my example image, this happened to be the blue channel (because the background is completely blue).

STEP 3: Drag the “Blue” channel into the new channel button as shown below. This will make a new channel, “Blue copy”, which we will be using as a base for our mask.

STEP 4: In order to completely remove the background, yet keep the foreground intact, the background must be completely white and the foreground completely black. To do this, click on the “Blue copy” channel, then bring up the Levels tool (CTRL + L) and move the sliders around to make the background as white as possible, and the foreground as black as possible. When you are happy with the results, press OK.

STEP 5: Brush in any background areas that did not turn completely white with a soft white brush (#ffffff), and any foreground areas that did not turn completely black with a soft black brush (#000000).

Before:

After:

STEP 6: Click on the RGB Channel in the Channels Palette to display all of the channels, then hide the “Blue copy” channel.

STEP 7: Load your new “Blue copy” channel as a selection by clicking “Load Selection” under the Selection Menu. Be sure to check off the Invert option.

STEP 8: Now that you have loaded your selection, click the layer that your image was placed on from the Layers Palette, then press the Add Layer Mask button. Your background should now be transparent.

STEP 9: At this point, the only thing left to do is to add your own custom background image. I have added a winter scene to the background in my example below (also found on sxc.hu):

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