We started this lesson about Photoshop Elements
and composition in yesterday's post.
Viewing a photo or a painting in progress, in grayscale mode,
helps to identify the light and dark values.
Here is the way I changed this photo to
a grayscale image:
Menu Bar > Image > Mode > Grayscale
As you can see, this is a rough image. I leave
the photo in a rough draft stage, because it is part of
developing the composition, similar to a rough pencil sketch.
In the next photo I use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to
select the areas I want to lighten, to see if they would
be interesting as the center of interest:
Tool Box > Polygonal Tool >See "10 6 2010 - Polygonal Lasso Tool"
(Under "Basic Photoshop Elements for Artists" Section of this blog)
Click >Move Cursor >Repeat to draw the selection
The next steps lighten the selected area of footprints
to create an interesting shape.
Menu Bar > Enhance > Adjust Lighting >
Brightness / Contrast dialog >Brightness field = +40, Contrast = +18
Menu Bar >Enhance >Adjust Lighting >
Shadows / Highlights dialog box >Lighten Shadows
>Lighten Midtone Contrast
Then I create a selection around the tie ring area.
I repeat the above lighting and contrast
adjustments on the tie ring area.
and composition in yesterday's post.
Viewing a photo or a painting in progress, in grayscale mode,
helps to identify the light and dark values.
Here is the way I changed this photo to
a grayscale image:
Menu Bar > Image > Mode > Grayscale
As you can see, this is a rough image. I leave
the photo in a rough draft stage, because it is part of
developing the composition, similar to a rough pencil sketch.
In the next photo I use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to
select the areas I want to lighten, to see if they would
be interesting as the center of interest:
Tool Box > Polygonal Tool >See "10 6 2010 - Polygonal Lasso Tool"
(Under "Basic Photoshop Elements for Artists" Section of this blog)
Click >Move Cursor >Repeat to draw the selection
The next steps lighten the selected area of footprints
to create an interesting shape.
Menu Bar > Enhance > Adjust Lighting >
Brightness / Contrast dialog >Brightness field = +40, Contrast = +18
Menu Bar >Enhance >Adjust Lighting >
Shadows / Highlights dialog box >Lighten Shadows
>Lighten Midtone Contrast
Then I create a selection around the tie ring area.
I repeat the above lighting and contrast
adjustments on the tie ring area.
In the next post we will see how this applies
to the painting in progress.
to the painting in progress.
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