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Exploiting a "happy accident" - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Exploiting a "happy accident"
I've saved my progress as Colleen against sky.psd. In this final exercise I am going to elevate the contrast of this image because we ultimately want it to compare with these various paintings I've done in the past here that are found inside the Photo paint variations.psd file. So, you can see how the contrast is elevated, the saturation values are elevated. It's a much more vivid piece, if nothing else. So, let's do the same thing with our composition in progress here. I am going to click on the fine hairs layer to make it active so that I've selected the top layer in the stack. Then I'll press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac. Click the Black & White icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and I'll choose Brightness/Contrast and that will force the display because I have the Alt or Option key down. I'll just call this guy B/C, click Ok. Make sure Use Legacy is turned off because it might be turned on from some other wacky thing we did, I don't know. I'll increase the…
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Photoshop's advanced painting tools2m 3s
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Canvas texture and brush libraries6m 40s
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Painting with a predefined custom brush9m 21s
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Dissecting a custom brush11m 9s
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Designing and using a custom brush4m 54s
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Saving and loading brush presets5m 27s
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The ten styles of bristle brushes9m 47s
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Size, Spacing, and Angle7m 2s
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Using the Bristle Brush preview7m 53s
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Bristles, Length, Thickness, and Stiffness6m 53s
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Stylus tilt and mouse behavior5m 25s
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Stroking a path outline with a brush4m
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Troubleshooting a stylus5m 49s
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Introducing the Mixer Brush7m 22s
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The Load, Mix, and Wet values5m 1s
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Cleaning and loading a brush6m 26s
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Shading a piece of graphic art6m 34s
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Shading with color7m 53s
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Mixing a photographic portrait6m 11s
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Tracing the fine details in an image5m 52s
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Crosshatching and brush size5m 53s
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Covering up and augmenting details7m 36s
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Painting in hair and fabric5m 54s
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Painting and scaling very fine hairs8m 7s
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Adding texture with the Emboss filter8m 31s
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Exploiting a "happy accident"2m 46s
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