I saw this photoshop action the other day I was impressed with. I'm on the hunt for a similar Action but I'm completely lost on what search terms to use in my hunt.
I have 4 images that give you an idea what the action does. I will also use the images to help explain my confusion.
IMAGE 1 -- nothing special here -- just showing you the image loaded into PS.
IMAGE 2 -- Image 2 shows you the first step of the action. It basically gives you an outline of the image and changes the background. I would love to have the background color to be all white but all in all this is ok.
IMAGE 3 - In this image I'm showing that you can use any brush to paint in what you want to show on the image. This is where I get lost in my search. I have been looking for an action that can convert the background like you see in image 2 above and than give you the ability to paint what you want to show in the image. I have used terms like "sketch painting" "pencil painting" "painting image" "brush painting" "mask painting" but I can not find any actions that does what you see in these images.
IMAGE 4 - When you are done brushing , you can continue the action and it will change what you brushed in to look like a painting.
Ok..............I'm looking for actions that basically does the above. The two key elements of the action is how it handles the background and also gives me the ability to use a brush tool to paint what I want seen in the final results. Most actions I seen will just convert the whole image to look like a painting.........I want more control of what is seen in the final results by using a brush to paint what I want seen in the final results. What it converts to in the end isn't important but I would love to find something where I could convert the image so it looks like a painting, a pencil sketch, comic sketch, etc.
You can help me with what to search for or even better yet, if you know where I can find such actions, please point the way.
I spent 2 days on GraphicRiveer with very little luck or what I find did not provide me enough info for me to be certain I was getting what I wanted. Other than GraphicRiver, I have been googling but no luck.
Thanks
Hi,
So I do this as a favor to a friend... His mother was painted when young. The painting was abused, and all the mother was left with was a black-and-white photo of the painting.
I tried to add color by making selections, and adding masked layers of solid color blended as "soft light", but the result is not good, maybe you can help me improve it...
Problems I see:
1. Abuse caused no details for the lower part (hands). I had to guess the hands position based on her right thumb and the belt, but there is no outline for the hands. Should I cut the lower part from the image, or maybe paint an outline for the hands (and if so, what is the easiest non-destructive way if I already have a path and a selection for the hands)? I know I need to fix the selection as at least the left palm is too big...
2. The seperation between the colors I added is too sharp, can I use some non-destructive filter or should I use "refine mask" on my masks and what to change? or maybe something else to blur the edges?
3. The belt is there but doesn't look real. Maybe I need to enhance the blacks (contrast) on the BW image, or maybe paint an outline of it? I have a selection and a path for belt.
4. Anything else?... This project was really above my head most of the times... Oh I now see I missed the lips...
I attach both the B&W pic of the painting, and my attempt to restore color to it.
Thanks for any help,
raananh
i have a signature watermark i put on my favorite images currently i have it is saved as a psd so i open it then move it onto the image, i was trying too create a brush that done this but the writing is white so becomes transparent when i make a new brush and only the camera icon is visible, i also tried to create an action where i recorded opening the psd , moving it onto an image, i was hoping this would work but didnt , something about move brush not defined if i remember, also the brush i created turns out sort of a green color see bottom image i know there probably a simple way around it and would appreciate any help , ive attatched an image of the signature so you know where im at , its transparent i just put a grey layer behind so you can see,
Probably a bad subject title so let me explain what I am trying to do.
I have a very basic image (screenshot 1). Trust me, this is not an exercise but similar to the image I will be using,ha!
I select each white circle and using smart erase I can erase each circle (screenshot 2) but I want a feathered/gradient effect like (screenshot 3).
Then when I add a background color it gives the effect I am after (screenshot 4).
So here is the issue - Each image will have 100's of white dots and they will be random on each image (sort of like a star field would be a good comparison). So I need to find a way to perform the same procedure all at once on all the dots (preferred way I would think), sort of like using smart erasure but with a feather effect, or need to create an "action" that will do that.
So I guess my questions a
1. Can one create a gradient that goes from "eraser-to-black", and then save it as a mask? (to use for question 2)
2. or perform the same task on each selected spot at the same time using a mask or
3. If I need to create an "action" for this how would one move from one spot to the next to perform the task on each spot?
Since I am new here I am beginning to search through the massive forums here but thought I would throw this out will I keep searching. Thanks so much.
Clutch
Hi! I want to create some car light trails for a matte painting scene.
I'm using a "Stroke path with brush", applying Shape Dynamics so the brush size is reduced as it approaches the vanishing point of the scene (1st image).
However, when I use a Round Blunt tip (to produce a more realistic effect simulating the light trails of several cars, 2nd image), I'm not able to apply Shape Dynamics for the brush size (3rd image).
Do you know any other brush tip that could produce a realistic effect (such as in the 4th image), while also being able to reduce its size via Shape Dynamics?
Or what any other way could I achieve a similar result?
Thank you!
Hello
I would like to use "embedded" actions in Photoshop
For instance, I define some "basic" actions
- Action 1
- Action 2
- Action 3
And in a more complex action I would like to have
- New action
...........
Run Action 1
.............
Run Action 3
................
I've seen this possibility used in an action I downloaded, but don't see how I can do it with my own actions
Thanks for your help
Have a good day
Hi All,
Request for assistance to create an action in Photoshop cs6 to Batch Change image background to white.
I need to batch convert high resolution product images through layer/vector mask +/or channels without using the selection tools.
Have tried to create white background layer and place original image made transparent behind ,but did not work for me.
If you can show the way for this or create and upload link to it,that would be much appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
John
Can I select and copy exactly half of an image (50% vertical selection) as part of an action? Each time I run my action it sets the selection to half of the size of the original image I made the action on, which doesn't work for me as all images are shot in different proportions.
Thanks!
Faye
What's the easiest way to convert an image from PNG to JPG ..?
I've created an action for that (see attached image), but I'm not able to save the JPG version in the same directory as the original image.
Please help thanks in advance.
This is probably an easily solved question as it was something I used to have set before I format my laptop and lost my preferences but here it is..
Before format, when I would apply the Black and White adjustment, my paint brush or pencil tool would automatically pencil/brush colour into the photo, now it doesn't and I can't seem to figure out how to revert it back to how it was. I've Googled it and can't seem to find what I'm looking for, although I think I may be just wording it wrong.
So, as below..
On these pictures I just applied black and white adjustment, hit paint brush or pencil tool and it'd inject colour in to the image, I can't seem to get that to happen anymore.
As I mentioned, someone will probably solve this really quickly.
Appreciate any help you can give.
I used to have an Action/Filter (can't remember which it was) that would turn a photo into what resembled the Matrix style effect. I was playing around as usual, and wanted to try it out on an image.
I haven't used it in a long while, but now I don't have any filters or actions that do it. I appear to have lost it, plus I can't seem to find it again on the web.
I don't suppose anyone here has something that resembles this.