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GlassSphere
Aug 18th 2008
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GlassSphere
Aug 18th 2008 edited
Step Six: Alright here we start adding the foliage. First we need to get our brush. Select the brush tool then right click anywhere on the canvas/picture. A menu will pop up, click on the little 'play' button symbol, and select "Special Effect Brushes" if a window pops up, click "OK".
A new list of brushes should appear, select the 7th brush down. The name of the brush is "scattered wild flowers" when you hover your mouse over it.
Step Seven: We need to slightly modify the brush in order to add more color variety. Hit F5 to bring up the brush settings menu. Click on Color Dynamics, set the Foreground/Background Jitter to 100%, Hue, Saturation, and Brightness Jitter to 10%. Lets select two colors for our foliage now. I chose a nice green- 009900 primary color, and a summery yellow- cccc00 secondary color.
Step Eight: Alright, create a new layer and name it foliage or something, then double-click on your foliage layer in the layer bar to bring up the Blending Options window. Check the "Drop Shadow" box, and change the blend mode from Multiply, to Color Burn, all the other settings are at default.
This will add a lot of depth to the foliage.
Step Nine: Brush on your plant life! There’s no science to it, just random swirls, leave some gaps here and there.
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Step Ten: This final step is optional, we are going to brighten up the foliage abit. Goto Filter-Blur-Blur to apply a slight blur, Then goto Edit-Fade Blur to bring up the fade menu. Set the mode to Linear Dodge, and play with the opacity setting to adjust how bright it will be.
I like it at 50%. Click OK to apply the fade, and your finished!
You can achieve alot of different styles by playing with the colors and levels. Look at this large example image to see just a few of the various styles you can come up with:
These were all actually created from the same image of this texture -after- it was finished! (In other words, not by changing colors in the process of making it, but all post editing) using the many image color changing tools in photoshop.
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I've noticed there are a few lines in the foliage texture, this has to do with the brush pattern, if they get on your nerves you can easily fix them with the smudge tool.
I also noticed this looks like and could pass for a hedge as well, but to me it seems more forest-y.
Whew! These things take abit longer to write than I expected! I hope you enjoy it. -
stacye
Aug 19th 2008 edited
I think this is a very nice beginner tutorial. The steps were easy to follow, and I received about the same results you did in your screen shots. I really liked how you described what the shortcuts do, and an alternative on how to do the same thing without the shortcuts.
I would suggest that you stay away from the descriptions of "Keep settings at default" or "7th brush down."
My default settings were different than what yours are, and even in your screen shot on the brushes it's the 6th one down. You did explain the brush name, so I wasn't lost on that. Also, not everyone will be working with the same version of Photoshop you are using.
This is an excellent first tutorial, and I hope that you write more as you learn more about Photoshop. =D -
GlassSphere
Aug 19th 2008
I only said the default thing for the blending mode options, and black-&white, which -are- always the same on default. The opacity might have been 75%, I may have moved it and forgot to change it back. Sorry about the brushes, I didn't know different versions of photoshop had different brushes, there really was no other way to describe where it is, other than its name and location. At least it was close ;)
Did you notice I never did give a menu-based way to find the brush edit menu? I remember the way to access that menu is very different between different versions of photoshop, so I gave the only way I thought was universal- F5. -
Neo
Aug 26th 2008
wow thats really clever. i never would have though of that. i like it alot -
TheLeggett
Aug 27th 2008
Very interesting technique GlassSphere! The end result almost surreal, but looks very nice. Might feature this in our monthly roundup ;) -
bratro Sep 3rd 2008Thanks for that super tutorial!!!
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Say that five times fast without saying florist!
Here is what we are going to create:
Woo! here goes my first tutorial ever.
What you will need to know in order to do this: 1. how to read 2. how to look at shiny pictures.
Alright, start up Photoshop.
Step One:
Goto Filter-Render-Clouds to create some nice black and white clouds.
If your colors are set to something else, press "d" on your keyboard to reset them to Default black and white.
Step Two:
Goto Filter-Stylize-Glowing Edges. Set the width to 7, edge brightness to 20, and smoothness to 13.
The edge width setting will control the minimum size of roots. A small setting means you will have a lot of tiny roots everywhere, while a larger width means the smaller roots will be abit less numerous and more distinct. Smaller width settings might be useful for smaller images, but in large images it the roots will look too cluttered/indistinct. Don't worry about the noise though, it gets fixed. Here is an example full-size image of two width sizes compared at a later stage in the tutorial. (Sorry if the image is a bit too small of a section to see the difference well.)
Step Three:
Goto Filter-Brush Strokes-Ink Outlines. Set the Stroke Length to 3, Dark Intensity between 20-35, and the Light Intensity at 0.
I like to keep the light intensity as low as possible in order to make the highlights more distinct. The higher the dark intensity, the less visible the smaller roots will be.
Step Four: Now to add color to the roots. Hit CTRL+U or goto Image-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation, to bring up the Hue/Saturation window. Be sure to check the "Colorize" box, then set the Hue to 35, Saturation to 50, and Lightness to -15. The lightness is set below zero so that pure white spots also get colored.
Step Five: Now we are going to remove the noisiness with a slight blur. Goto Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur, set the radius to 0.3 and accept. For some reason, this exact amount is magical.