linkage: Photoshop tutorial for comic book effect

[astridv]

I was stumbling around Photoshop, trying to make a background using this comic effect tutorial, which I'd been meaning to try out for ages. I finally managed to locate the posterize filter in my PS (which is unfortunately in German). It should come handy in the future... pretty sure it's not that useful for backgrounds though... hm. Anyway, I'm about to draw the background the old-fashioned way and just use computer for the wormhole effect, but just for fun I ran the foreground through the filter, too. Looks... interesting?

Comments

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

That looks very cool! You're much more diliigent than I in discovering what PS can actually do. It's such a deep program.

I mostly use it like an electronic brush, period. :(

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I mostly use it like an electronic brush, period. :(

That is something I just can't get a handle on. Right now I'm drawing a few lines that had broken away, and it's so damn tricky. It's like threading a needle wearing boxing gloves... I just have no feeling for it. I'm thinking the actual drawing/painting part is something I should keep to a minimum... But I'm really starting to like the layers!

[trystings.livejournal.com]

I already loved the pencil sketch, but this is very very cool! Love the floor reflections!

I've been wrestling with Photoshop myself. Layers - nnngh.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I think this really looks kind of cool... maybe a little heavy on the effect (cough) but I like how the FG and the BG mesh now. I'll try to go from here and see if I can clean it up a little.

Layers - nnngh.

Oh, yes. I think I'm finally starting to master the art of Layer-Fu. They make it so much easier to try out new stuff; don't know how I managed without them. I still have no idea of filters and I don't know how masks work. But for now I'm just reveling in the layers. Baby steps.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Hee!

♥

[tinny]

I like it, I think it looks cool!

Photoshop always takes much longer than you plan. :D

About that tutorial: I just read a great tutorial today, by awmpdotnet. The cool trick there is to first do a Blur - Smart Blur - 100% on the source image. It will remove all the minor speckles before adding the poster edges. It gives a much cleaner result, and I'm totally thrilled by the effect. I've been trying it all afternoon on icons, and it is much better than any other comic effect I've known before.

Edited to add a direct link:
http://community.livejournal.com/awmpdotnet/14274.html

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Great tutorial, thanks for the link. I already tried it out a little... the smart blur filter alone is fun to play with and gets you pretty cool effects. Now I have to find the Anisotropic Filter-Stylize-Diffuse thing. (I'm really considering deleting my version of PS and re-installing it in English.)

I can't wait to try out the new filters on something... maybe I'll redo my default icon, this one was supposed to be just a placeholder until I could come up with something shinier.

[tinny]

(I'm really considering deleting my version of PS and re-installing it in English.)

Understanding all the online tutorials is the reason I have PS in English.

So I can't help you with the filter finding. Sorry.

Unfortunately, I have a pretty old version - but I'd rather have that old legal one than a cracked new one. :) But that means that the Anisotropic filter doesn't even exist in my version. I have to remove all those artefacts manually. Hmpf.