Pencil Shading Effect
In this article I’ll show you how to make a perfect effect from your photo.
You need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and five minutes. Let’s start.
Step 1.
Open your photo and duplicate background layer (apply Layer > Duplicate Layer). Now choose “Background copy” layer. Choose Elliptical Marquee Tool and make an elliptical selection. Go to channels palette and crete a new channel (Alpha 1).
Step 2.
Apply Select > Feather with the following settings: Feather Radius->45px. And apply Edit > Fill...(White) or press ALT+Del. Now add some noise, apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise with the following settings: Amount->25, Distribution->Uniform, Monochromatic->ON. Apply Filter > Brush Strokes > Angled Strokes with the following settings: Direction balance-> 10, Stroke length->44, Sharpness->10.
Step 3.
Go to layers palette and choose “Background copy” layer. Now apply Select > Load Selection with the following settings: Operation->New selection, Channel->Alpha1. Apply Select > Inverse and press Del.
Step 4.
Choose “Background” layer. Choose Elliptical Marquee Tool and make an elliptical selection. Go to channels palette and crete a new channel (Alpha 2). Apply Select > Feather with the following settings: Feather Radius->20px. Apply Select > Inverse and then apply Edit > Fill..(White). Now add some noise, apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise with the following settings: Amount->8, Distribution->Uniform, Monochromatic->ON. Apply Filter > Brush Strokes > Angled Strokes with the following settings: Direction balance-> 83, Stroke length->44, Sharpness->10.
Step 5.
Go to layers palette and choose “Background” layer. Now apply Select > Load Selection with the following settings: Operation->New selection, Channel->Alpha 2. Apply Select > Inverse and fill it (apply Edit > Fill..(White)). Now apply Select > Inverse again and Edit > Fill..(White). You will get a pencil shading photo like mine.
And that’s it.
Oil Text Effect
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to apply an oil effect to your text.
Step 1.
Create a new 250X250 pixels document with the black background. Choose the Horizontal Type Tool and write a text. Place it in the center of the image. Now rasterize this layer (Layer > Rasterize > Type). Apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with Radius->1,5 pixels.
Step 2.
Apply Layer > Duplicate Layer to duplicate text layer (”oil effect copy” layer). Choose “oil effect” layer and press CTRL+E to merge down two layers. Now rotate an image (Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW) and apply Filter > Stylize > Wind with the following settings: Stagger->ON, From the Right.
Step 3.
Now choose “oil effect copy” layer and duplicate it (”oil effect copy2” layer). Choose “oil effect copy” layer and apply Filter > Stylize > Wind with the following settings: Wind->ON, From the Right. Press CTRL+E. Apply Filter > Blur > Blur More and then apply Layer > Flatten Image.
Step 4.
Now apply Filter > Stylize > Solarize and then Image > Adjuistments > Hue/Saturation with the following settings: Colorize->ON, Hue->47, Saturation->50, Lightness->0. And that’s it.
