More Photoshop Techniques
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009This week I’m trying out some more Photoshop filter effects. This image is from the same location as last week - different subject though. I liked the chicken as it really stood out against the dark surroundings of the sculptures. This is the original:
I was going for an other-worldly effect, and first duplicated the background (Layer > Duplicate Layer > Background Copy). Next I converted the image to black and white (Image > Adjustments > Channel Mixer > Monochrome).
Then I used the history brush to colour the chicken and bring its colour back into the image, while keeping the rest of the image black and white. Here is where to find the history brush:
Next I used the Magnetic Lasso tool to select the chicken and inverted the selection (Select > Inverse) so I could change the appearance of the background.
I adding an effect called Ocean Ripple then to the background: View > Distort > Ocean Ripple.
This is the result:
The effect is a little different. Not too other-worldly, but getting there.
The different filters are fun to play with and see what kind of ‘distortion’ is possible.
