I am gonna show you how I edit images along with a few other tips, maybe you can use it for making album covers or with your photography.
The image that I will be using ->
the first thing I am going to do is apply a color look up layer. to do this you can go to the top of photoshop and click layer, down to new adjustment layer then finally color look up.
The upmost drop down menu will be filled with presets, you can play around with these or find other Color look up presets online.
here is what I have now
sometimes you may not like a certain color, this can be easily adjusted.
Click select from the top, and then pull up color range.
you will get a menu like this
now this you can play with, you can even unmask certain areas since it will select everything this shade of blue on the screen. I am not going to bother with it right now and I am going to select all blues.
Go to image, hue and saturation.
I picked this magenta. notice the screen changed colors too.
If you want to unmask certain areas you can use this tool. holding alt will switch between subtract and add.
I used the tool to select the screen and remove it entirely. Ctrl D to deselect.
I brought in a new layer. I am going to use CTRL T to transform it how i would like. I am also going to drag the new layer to the bottom, do make sure the adjustment layer remains the highest.
Note I fixed my selection to keep the black edges. I toyed with the layers saturation as well.
If you never looked in the ad creatives thread some great fonts were shared there. http://planet.dk/fonts/ I have been using these lately. note that you should install these before booting up Photoshop.
Once you get your fonts how you like you will want to right click the font layer and rasterize type. this will make it a normal layer.
right click again, and at the top select blending options.
I changed my font to black and gave it a white outer glow. (it is pink due to color look up layer)
The blending option menu has lots of fun things in it just remember to keep it simple.
Now i am going to check the image size. For dithering I don't ever exceed 900 pixels. I think the default size is good as is.
View: https://youtu.be/8VRuDEfFa2Y
Here is a video that explains dithering and how to use it, also has a link to the file you need to do it.
to dither the image go to image, mode then indexed image.
you are gonna want to load the the palette from the previous video.
now you can play with different image sizes and dither amounts but 500 seems to be the sweet spot with a 90% dither for diffusion. There is also pattern diffusion. I will share both.
Diffuse
PATTERN
There are so many more things you can do with photoshop its worthpiraitng
The image that I will be using ->
the first thing I am going to do is apply a color look up layer. to do this you can go to the top of photoshop and click layer, down to new adjustment layer then finally color look up.
The upmost drop down menu will be filled with presets, you can play around with these or find other Color look up presets online.
here is what I have now
sometimes you may not like a certain color, this can be easily adjusted.
Click select from the top, and then pull up color range.
you will get a menu like this
now this you can play with, you can even unmask certain areas since it will select everything this shade of blue on the screen. I am not going to bother with it right now and I am going to select all blues.
Go to image, hue and saturation.
If you never looked in the ad creatives thread some great fonts were shared there. http://planet.dk/fonts/ I have been using these lately. note that you should install these before booting up Photoshop.
Once you get your fonts how you like you will want to right click the font layer and rasterize type. this will make it a normal layer.
right click again, and at the top select blending options.
View: https://youtu.be/8VRuDEfFa2Y
Here is a video that explains dithering and how to use it, also has a link to the file you need to do it.
to dither the image go to image, mode then indexed image.
now you can play with different image sizes and dither amounts but 500 seems to be the sweet spot with a 90% dither for diffusion. There is also pattern diffusion. I will share both.
Diffuse
PATTERN
There are so many more things you can do with photoshop its worth
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