30 Image Treatments

The original image:



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A few personal favorites...

Building Proposal Project

My first attempt was green camo, before it was pointed out that that might be taken as something related to the military.


So I guess it turned gay instead.


Taking reflective building materials one step further?!


It would be mocking the MAX line, perhaps. Or maybe just trying to confuse and disorient it.

Final products!

did you ever know, you're my tragic hero?

TV style scanlines! This was just as simple as the halftone tutorial these people did, and the effect is just as amusing. I think I could have used a better photograph for mine, though.
These people know some sinister looking children, seriously.
My version:



This wasn't a very realistic smoke effect, but I've never used Liquefy before so that as an interesting experiment.
Once I'd gotten tired of smearing around smoke, I added some effects of my own and called it good.
My version:



Well this tutorial is basically insane. I tried to do it, then realized it would take way more hours than I was willing to donate, and ended up cutting out a good chunk of the work in the middle. It's a different result, but I'm not displeased, at least.
My version (with a bonus! I altered one of the steps to use what I learned in the smoke tutorial!):



This has some interesting techniques -- again, I didn't learn anything, but I enjoyed watching the artist put all of them together in interesting ways. -- No, hang on, I lied. I realized that I can use the warp/distort options on a single brush stroke. That's brilliant. I've never thought of doing that before.


Pretty simple, pretty straight forward. Applying makeup in Photoshop.


A beautiful tutorial, and some useful information! If you've ever wanted to recreate the Shroud of Turin on, say, your curtains, but don't want to get them stained? Here you go!


How to make a tiny truck! Using the clone tool for more than just hiding things in a picture.


And on the same page, how to straighten the Tower of Piza!

Compositing Images
How to combine two (or more) images, useful and well explained.


Cute and useful! A tutorial about the process of picking the best options for a website's mascot.

50/50

you can't say you've never had a doubt

Learn to Remove Glasses
This one wasn't too impressive, since I already knew how to use to clone/heal brushes. I did learn more details about them though, so that was good.

But above all? I learned that you can make a snapshot in the history window.

Holy crap.

Consider my world rocked.



Shaping text! I liked this one, it's good to know. I don't use Illustrator too often, but if I ever need text in a circle and don't feel like doing it myself, I know where to go now!


I liked this one! Brushes are something I can never get enough of, so it's nice to know how to make my own now. Apparently I can't get more than one to save at a time though, so that's unfortunate.

This was created entirely in brushes I'd made with this tutorial.

Change Brunette to Blonde
This one was just what I'd do anyway, but I liked the part about applying it to a different selection, that was interesting. I hadn't realized that was possible.

Change Eye Color
Didn't learn anything here, but it's a clear and useful tutorial nonetheless.


This is a strange effect to want, but it was interesting. An easy to follow tutorial.
My version:



This was fun! The tutorial was really vague and assumed a lot of previous Photoshop experience, but I was okay with that.
My version:



I really liked this one! Easy to follow, and really creative uses of things I've never really played with before. Plus, I learned that ctrl+backspace fills the layer. :D
My version (it looked Asian to me, so I followed the theme by using a picture I'd taken in Hong Kong):



Making an image halftone! This was surprisingly simple, but I really like the end result. Really pretty. I had to do a little tweaking outside of the tutorial to get that misty white light to it that I had in my mind when I started with this picture, but other than than the tutorial was easy to follow and effective.
My version:


40/50

OK~ you are look soo pretty now

This was seriously impressive. I hadn't seen the final result by the time I started reading over it, so I just kept getting more and more impressed, any by the time of the end I was so glad that an artist like this would take the time to explain his method. Bookmarking this one for sure.


I'm so glad I found this guy's tutorials! It's a good mix of useful information and impressive skill, so I feel like I'm actually going to improve if I try out his methods. (Granted he does seem to be the kind of artist that just draws a lot of pretty women floating in empty space, but they're well-drawn pretty women, so I'll forgive it.) Bookmarking this one too.


This one was a little hard to follow because the artist doesn't natively speak English. It's very blunt and bland, and while it's good art, the process wasn't particularly revealing.


I thought at first this was going to be another doesn't-teach-me-anything tutorial (although it's very good for beginners at photoshop, since it explains with impressive clarity grouping and multiplying), but it turned out to be useful toward the end. I didn't like some of her methods, but others were pretty impressive.


This seems to be one of the many examples I find of someone making a tutorial that really doesn't have any tips or tricks to share, just common sense.


Same pattern, I thought this would just be a silly useless thing. It looked like she was trying to make a raster image into an imitation vector image -- but it turned out to be interesting and useful.


This wasn't a wealth of information, but I did like the part about coloring the lineart when you're done and the best way to pick a color for it. I always have trouble with that part.


Another case of common sense instead of tricks, and to boot I don't really like the final product. Didn't enjoy this one very much.


I really like this one! Clouds give me some issues, and I really like the different kinds at atmospheres the artist has provided here. Bookmarking this one, too.


This one was seriously fun to do. I have no real use (at the moment) for having a planet picture, but when I saw it it looked so fun that I had to try it. Viola, something Mars-like!
My version:


31/50

ghostintheshell

Okay I admit I'm using these tutorials for another class, but it's still digital!! Still counts, right? yes indeed, images are links.


I don't think I like this one much. I don't like the end result, and there's too much preceding crap that I already know. I'm sure there's stuff in there I could use, but it's too hard to dig through the baby steps.


This one's a little better. More easily read, more tricky, more overall useful. But I still don't want to use that method, I was looking for which brush setting is good to use. :(


Am I just overly picky? I don't like this one at all -- this is just the basics, and the final result isn't all that nice at all.

Okay, then I sort of gave up on inking at all for a second.

Speed painting! Whenever I try it it comes out looking a bit like crap, but this tutorial wasn't very useful. That's the basic idea, and I didn't learn much.

Alright and then I just got distracted all together.

I REALLY like this tutorial. It's not Photoshop tricks that I'm learning as much as how to apply them -- and I think that's really really useful. I'm definitely going to be keeping that one bookmarked.


And then I realized this guy had more tutorials! And I rejoiced. And I bookmarked a few more things. I like the final picture a little less in this one, but again, it's useful information.

Then suddenly I was more interested in the rain effect than inking.

This one's pretty useful too! Everyone seems to have a slightly different method for making rain.


This one was less helpful in the actual raindrops bit (but I can use the other tutorials for that), but pretty good about rain-on-objects. I can learn from that, too!


Some people have really weird methods.


I think this person was actually using a mouse rather than a tablet. So her pointers are more on how to make it look good-despite-mouseage. Not much use to me, then.



WELL, I guess I'll just go with my usual method then, since I don't really feel like learning the pen tool right now.