Geetings with Costas Hummingbird
Hi Folks;
First of all the Costas photo I used was taken by Gina with her first Olympus Ultra Zoom 10x point & shoot. Wish they still sold that little camera as it was pocket size with an eye piece viewer. Gina took the third version of the same camera to Africa with her to Africa in 2004 and the photos on Webshots is still getting 60 hits per week, was 3000/wk. in 2004.As with all tutorials your own judgment is important. The Snow creation came from Photoshop NAAP and slightly modified in amount of noise & levels adjustment.
- How I created this>opened CS5>New>1024x800 px 72 resolution white BG>OK>using color picker I selected FG a light blue ,BG a dark blue. Then Filter>render>clouds>Saved
- File>open>Costas Humming bird. OpenBG in Workplace>Click Move icon>Move Costas on top of BG>Using BG eraser 40% opacity I went around outline of cardinal erasing Cardinal photo BG to reveal finished BG> used eraser to finish revealing all of the finished BG>Flatten>saved.
- Press Ctrl+J for duplicate layer
- With dup selected: Edit>Fill>Black>OK
- Click Filter>Noise>Add Noise>Select Gaussin & Monochromatic>60>OK (For a mixed very light BG up to 150)
- Click Filter>Blur>More Blur
- Click Image>Adjustments>Levels>White marker left to start of Histogram 90>Black marker right close to white marker 100, you will notice noise lessens as you move black marker right.
- Change Blend from Normal to Screen. You will see snow on the card now.
- Click Select>Select All>Edit>Stroke>10 px>Color white>Blending Normal>Opacity 30%>OK
- I used Font GLOWING AWAY for “Happy Holiday “
I liked the fact the presentation was completely done in CS5
Comments always welcome & appreciated
Keep smiling
Gus `n Gina
