Ok, so I'm a graphic designer by trade, and often times given my place of work, I find myself bored with short deadlines and very mundane non-creative work orders about 60% of the time. If I were to give little tutorials on photoshop, would anyone be interested? I've been working on Photoshop for about 15 years and am willing to share my wealth of knowledge to those interested.

Here is a recent example. I tend to go lite on the "filters" as the discerning eye can usually pick those out instantly, so a lot of my work is either full on illustration, or in the case of following example, a photo with most of the details hand brushed using as few filters as possible. My intention was to make this photo look like me as a 70's child molester in honor of my newly grown molestache.

Original (with red levels adjusted. Hey, it was done on a camera phone)


After:

ok, i hadnt really checked back. While the interest is not overwhelming, I will put together a simple tutorial and post it up.

More or less, yes. There were other things I did like scratching up the edges a bit, which admittedly would be extremely tedious without the trusty waacom tablet. The yellow tint was more of an afterthought, as I used the color curves and levels to adjust the color to seem aged. Given that I couldn't go photograph a van, I had to use google, and because the pictures were taken in two differently lit environments (indoor and outdoor) I used the tint to kind of wash some of the shading and make the light sources less distinguishable. Also to note, the creases and coffee stain were not sampled, I created those within the program.

Also, Gp, you probably know the ins and outs of the new photoshops better than myself. Not to say the program isn't second nature to me, but a large bulk of my work is either drawing from scratch where my primary tool is just the various brushes, or simple color correction. I have several tricks up my sleeve however, and I'm certain my application differs from yours sometimes given the description of work you use it for.

The crease is simple... just make a new layer, choose an appropriately sized solid brush, turn up the opacity and flow to 100% using 100% white swatch, draw a crease across the image, do the same thing with full black on a new layer right next to the white line. To each layer apply an appropriate gaussian blur (think mine was about 2%) then change the opacity's to overlay or soft light and adjust the transparentcy until it has a realistic look.

The coffee stain is a little more complicated, but not much. I just created a new alpha channel, made a solid white ring using the circular masking tool. From there, I just used the eraser with a soft edge, airbrush clicked and a flow of about 6%. from there i kind of fleshed out the cofee stain, went back with a sharp edged brush, increased the flow to like 30% and rifined the edges.

From there, I make a new layer, load the Coffee stain alpha transparentcy and choose a orangish bronze color. I fill the mask, change the layer style to color burn and apply a moderate guassian blur (around 2-3%) I create a new layer on top of last layer load the same alpha transparentcy choose a cofee brown color, fill the maks then change the layer blending to multiply and adjust the transparentcy until realistic appearance is acheived. I also adjust the colors of said two layers if the original color doesn't quite blend well, or look realistic. I usually do this through the hugh/saturation dialog in the Image>Adjust drop down menu.

Yeah, doing this kind of work makes you a fatass.. I didn't realize it until like 2 years into it I was 30lbs heavier. I was dumbfounded because, while I wasn't jogging or anything, I was eating less than ever, and I wasn't really drinking any alcohol. You absolutely have to do something active outside of work. I still want to drop about 20 lbs.