1. Learn more photo manipulation
2. Learn more about Photoshop

Janee has a way of giving lots of very useful tips about little things in Photoshop along with the discipline of making images a certain file size and dimension!

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Week 3,Photos into Paintings, with the constructive use of filters. Filters bring to mind a vision of things that are not so attractive. But when used with control and purpose, filters can create some very pretty results!

The Required"Paintings"

Questions and Answers for Week 3

1. The snow photo was taken Sunday, January 23, 2005, during the blizzard.. I used the 'formula' to get the result.
2. Another photo at Blithewold on a hot summer day. I like the way the filters used to get the painted image have heightened the colors so that the essence of that summer day 'speaks' to me! The only thing I wish I had been aware of before all the work is the white object on the lower left hand pane of the window. I hadn't really noticed it when I began work on the photo. The screen shot beside it shows the filters, blending modes and Adjustment layers and their parameters used.

1. This photo is from Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts and was taken last fall. It is with the use of the Art History Brush. I had difficulty getting the brush to work, especially at the 100% Tolerance. I did find that once I had established my source, that using a blank layer and painting into it with the Art History brush gave better results. What happiness I felt when I found that by using the History Brush, I could get back some of the detail where I wanted it, for example, the edges of the windows and steeple, to name two of the spots.

The Formula for Painting 3

Art History

1. Soft Round brush
   1. 15 pixels
   2. Tight Short Strokes
   3. Luminosity blend
      
2. Just wrote 192 as brush (should have paid more attention to which set!)
   1. 18 pixels.
   2. Tight Short
   3. Luminosity blend.
      
3. Leaf Brush
   1. 16 pixels
   2. Dab
   3. Lighten.
      
4. A soft brush
   1. 65 pixels,
   2. Dab
   3. Pin Light.
      
      
5. Butterfly Brush (it seem good for giving some detail to the leaves on the trees.)
   1. Dab
   2. Luminosity
   3. History Brush to redraw some of the edges of the building and windows.
      
6. Butterfly Brush
   1. Dab
   2. PinLight
7. Layer of Gauze Pattern fill with a Soft Light blend at 15% opacity as bottom of sandwich with Merged Visible Layer set to Lighten and the top Gauze layer at Darken and 9% Opacity.
   

Extras!

Just because it was fun and there were so many things to try.

1. The first photo was taken at Blithewold Gardens on Narragansett Bay in Bristol, Rhode Island last summer. The painting is a result of lots of filters until I got exactly what I liked.
2. The second photo taken a couple of years ago in April in the village of Wickford, RI. In the last one I got a rain effect by using a 'hair' brush!