Thursday, March 31, 2011

D1 Tutorial #4 Sijan

Effect of music notes on the flower.

1. Open the picture of a flower you would like to add music notes to.


2. Now, sharpen the image by Filter>Sharpen>Smart sharpen.

3. Improve the contrast using Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast

After all the adjustments, the picture looks like this.

4. Open the image of a music notes.

5. Now copy the image of the music notes and paste it in the first picture where you have the flowers. If the picture of the notes appear smaller than the size of the tulips on the flower, you can paste the picture of the music notes twice and then merge the two pictures together.

6. Change the layer mode to Darken.

7. Now to expand the image we use Edit>Transform>Wrap.

8. After you adjust the notes on the petals, use polygonal lasso tool to create petal shaped selection. Then hit ctrl+shift+I to inverse the picture. You can then hit 'delete' which will delete the rest of the part except the petals.

9. You can use the same process to all the other petals where you would like the notes to appear.

Final Image :