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severalplumsThanks to alyburns for requesting a Winner's Tutorial for this one. It was made in Photoshop CS3 on a Mac, and uses Gradient Map, Gaussian Blur filter and masking.
Here's the base from which I started:
First thing I did was to apply a black/white Gradient Map.
Next, I copied the lot onto an amalgamated layer, and applied a Gaussian Blur filter set at 6.4, to get a nice fuzzy layer.
Then I masked off the panda from the GB layer, so as to get it back as a reasonably crisp and defined entity. I then masked the panda in the Gradient Map layer in the same way, so as to get back the little tinges of colour in the original.
See the difference:
Time for some textures to brighten it up a bit. I decided to check through my own creations first, and found this one, which I added in Multiply mode, and then masked off the panda again.
Another of my own textures with some little blobs of light (made from the berries pic in Challenge #72), fairly minimalised by being set on Soft Light at 68%. Again, I masked off most of the panda, though this time I wasn't too worried about precision, as you'll see from the Layers palette.
The text, "shadow boxing" is in Lucida Handwriting, 11pt, AV50, Sharp. At first I did the text in white, and then duplicated both layers (the words are on separate layers, I find it easiest that way because I can control exactly where I want each word to be placed) and changed the colour to d9c5e5, a light mauve picked up from the light dots in the previous texture.
I put the mauve text (blend mode: Normal) above the white text, and in fact amalgamated the two white words into one layer, which is then set to Overlay and offset by a click sideways and a click downwards, to get that slightly odd effect. I have no idea why the 'box' part of 'boxing' seems clearer, but it was interesting so I left it at that. Save for Web and Devices as png24, and there we are.
The Layers palette, so you can see the masking.
Anyone have any questions?
alyburns for requesting a Winner's Tutorial for this one. It was made in Photoshop CS3 on a Mac, and uses Gradient Map, Gaussian Blur filter and masking.Here's the base from which I started:
First thing I did was to apply a black/white Gradient Map.
Next, I copied the lot onto an amalgamated layer, and applied a Gaussian Blur filter set at 6.4, to get a nice fuzzy layer.
Then I masked off the panda from the GB layer, so as to get it back as a reasonably crisp and defined entity. I then masked the panda in the Gradient Map layer in the same way, so as to get back the little tinges of colour in the original.
See the difference:
Time for some textures to brighten it up a bit. I decided to check through my own creations first, and found this one, which I added in Multiply mode, and then masked off the panda again.
Another of my own textures with some little blobs of light (made from the berries pic in Challenge #72), fairly minimalised by being set on Soft Light at 68%. Again, I masked off most of the panda, though this time I wasn't too worried about precision, as you'll see from the Layers palette.
The text, "shadow boxing" is in Lucida Handwriting, 11pt, AV50, Sharp. At first I did the text in white, and then duplicated both layers (the words are on separate layers, I find it easiest that way because I can control exactly where I want each word to be placed) and changed the colour to d9c5e5, a light mauve picked up from the light dots in the previous texture.
I put the mauve text (blend mode: Normal) above the white text, and in fact amalgamated the two white words into one layer, which is then set to Overlay and offset by a click sideways and a click downwards, to get that slightly odd effect. I have no idea why the 'box' part of 'boxing' seems clearer, but it was interesting so I left it at that. Save for Web and Devices as png24, and there we are.
The Layers palette, so you can see the masking.
Anyone have any questions?