Tutorial 3- Layer Basics

What is Layer ?

A layer is simply one image stacked on top of another. Imagine I have a piece of paper and I paint it red. Then I take a peice of clear celophaine and paint a yellow circle, and lay it over the paper. Now I take another peice of cellophane and paint some blue type and laythat on top of the yellow circle. I now have a background (red) and 2 layers (yellow and blue.) Just like in the picture below.

A background with 2 layers.

This is how your image with would look on the screen or when printed.

Broken apart so you can see how the layers work
Each layer stacks on top of the previous one.

That is it! The concept of layers is that simple. Photoshop uses the Layers Pallete to allow you to do this with your images. More than one layer is called a composition.

Now I will doing a explanation on photoshop about working on the layer basics.

This is the Picture I want to combine it.

Open the Photoshop and Import two Images.

I'm like to using Lasso Tool to Crop Out the are I want.

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After finish cropping.

Arrange the Position and the size of the Image using Transform Tool(CTRL+T)

This is the Final adjustment of the photo.

But it still need to adjust some saturation , contrast and the color.

I will do it on the next post!!

This is the layers of this project.

I'm using two layers on it.

Picture in different layers can let us easily to edit and adjustment.

Final Output

Design my blog and introduce the workspace and layer of PS

Now I'm designing a new banner for my blog! I using Adobe CS 5 to do this.

In this tutorial, I will explain the tool I had used. And create a new image using the layer and the workspace tools.

Let's see the results!

Here is the process of banner!!

First create a new document. I set the width and height to 760X350 with resolution 300.

This is a format of banner in Blogger .

After that, begin with a radial gradient, This one is pretty harsh and goes from a reddish brown color to black.

Duplicate the layer we just made, and set the one above blending mode to color dodge.

Color Dodge is probably the strongest of the lightening ones. As you can see the screenshot below, it produces a pretty full-on center.

We are going to create a sort of smoke haze. To do this, create a new layer, and make sure you have a white and black background and foreground colors. Then go to Filter > Render > Clouds. This will give you the same random cloud pattern as above.

Now set the opacity of the cloud's layer to Overlay and 30% transparency. Then go to filter > Sketch > Chrome and use default settings which are 4 and 7 for detail and smoothness respectively. When you are done, the result should look a lot smokier.

Once we got a background, now we are going to draw some line using the Pen Tool. For us, it is not difficult to draw a nice line using this tool. Because we learnt this tool at Adobe Illustrator before. So this will not a big problem for us.

Once you get a nice curve line, create a new layer and click on the Paint Brush(B) and choose a very hard, very thin brush . and the thickness should be 3.

Note that you can have any color selected as your brush color.

Now switch back to the Pen Tool. You must switch tools in order to do this next bit.

Then right-click and select Stroke Path. Choose Brush and make sure there is a tick next to Simulate Pressure.

You should now have something like this. Thin and cool swishy thing.

Now we going to do some glows. Double click or right click on the layer to open the layer blending option.

This is my settings.

After that, you will have a cool glow line. So now repeat the same process a couple of time to make some squiggly lines. Re-order the layer of the line or re-transform it to get a nice composition. Remember copy the previous layer style and paste it on the other layers.

Here I've added some text in and applied the same layer style to the text layers.

Now we add some particles. To do this, open a new layer then select a tiny paint brush - size 3 between 5. and just paint some dots on. After that paste our Glow style on that layer too!!

At the final part, I create a new layer and using a radial gradient , draw a blue to white gradient and purple and etc on it. Then i set the layer to a blending mode of color and change the opacity to 50%.

You can add more extra layer and color to it using the radial gradient tool to get a nice color.

And remember to set each layer to blending mode of color and thin opacities so that they all fade together.

Tutorial 2 - Gamut Warning

Today, I learnt about Gamut Warning at Tutorial Class. What is Gamut Warning? A gamut is the range of colors that a color system can display or print. A color that can be displayed in RGB may be out of gamut, and therefore unprintable for the CMYK settings.

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This is the picture downloaded from MMLS.

As your press Ctrl-Shift-Y to enable the gamut warning, you can clearly see the areas who are out of range.

Go to Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation to adjust it to get the optimum result.

And this is the final results!!!

Tutorial 1- My Introduction

This is my first post at this blog!!!

Hi~Madam Lydia!!

Nice to meet you and hope we have a wonderful time.

Let's make a introduction of myself first.

My name is Te Chin Yong.

I come from the southern part of Malaysia, which is Johor Bahru.

This semester is my second sem at MMU.

And i feel that, it is quite busy for us compare to last semester.

Hopefully I can learn a lot from you and improve my photoshop skill. :)

Nice to meet you!!!!

This is my photo. :)