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Heather

Dress Up Girl

Photoshop Elements 6 - Loosely followed a tutorial in this months Photoshop Creative magazine.
The colour is generated from scans of watercolor on paper and by using various blending modes.
Added extra brushwork.. and quite a few other tweaks.

~ Basic Workflow ~

Change image to B/W. Increase contrast to bring out the white.
Duplicate this layer. Add a new blank layer and trace or block with black over the parts of the image where you want the colour to show through. Delete the background layer.
Using a small brush paint in the swirly bits and any other embellishments you want to add. When happy, merge your layers.
Open your texture image (I used what was supplied on the magazine CD). Position it over the tracing however you want it.
Play with the Blend Modes to blend the texture with the tracing image. Repeat this with another copy of the texture and blend again. Colour Burn is a good one!
With the Eraser tool erase out parts of the texture to bring out the tracing. Create a new layer and add more embellishments if you wish too.
My Crab image was done more or less the same way as this but I created my own texture.


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Guest 19-Jul-2009 03:49
This painting is very very interesting..It reminds me of many Broadway play advertisings and some record jackets...Henryj
Digital Nuts14-May-2009 03:20
The freedom is wonderful. She looks terrific in the abandonment of precision. Lovely, Becca
Digital Nuts12-May-2009 12:54
I like the graphic illustrative look! Anita
Digital Nuts12-May-2009 11:31
Thanks for the tutorial. A very interesting approach and a fine image.
Alan
Digital Nuts11-May-2009 22:46
I love all of these great comments you received. Really FRESH ! ~ Fay
Digital Nuts11-May-2009 16:32
Heather, I would love more details on how you did this one. It is so ... artistic. Terry
Guest 11-May-2009 02:16
I absolutely love it.!......Katra
Guest 10-May-2009 22:02
Extremely cool!!! MargaretM
Digital Nuts10-May-2009 16:00
This is so fun! ~Aurora
Digital Nuts10-May-2009 14:25
So creative! The purple palette is beautiful. Jim
Bari10-May-2009 12:47
WOW!!!! This really is fabulous and so much fun!!!
Digital Nuts10-May-2009 08:27
Very well done. Lew
Digital Nuts10-May-2009 03:39
This is so out of the box. I love it. Bethany
Guest 10-May-2009 02:30
:-)
Guest 10-May-2009 01:26
This is just a wonderful work of art!! Bob
Digital Nuts09-May-2009 21:46
This is wonderful! Love the collage effect. Tanya
Digital Nuts09-May-2009 17:45
A fresh and exciting technique !
fmr.
Digital Nuts09-May-2009 17:18
Very nice work and an interesting technique.
Alan
Digital Nuts09-May-2009 17:12
WAY COOL ! ~ Fay
Guest 09-May-2009 16:25
nice
Digital Nuts09-May-2009 16:18
This is very fun - like a children's book illustration with splotches. Or "When I Get Old I Shall Wear Purple". Terry
Judith Barnett09-May-2009 16:11
Not sure?!?!?!? This is totally delightful! It is like a new art form, a line art drawing with bits of colored tissue paper pasted over it and a brush dribbled over it to lay down the dotted lines! That is just my interpretation! Fabulous!
Digital Nuts09-May-2009 15:52
Wooohoo! absolutely delightful,Heather! gypsylulu
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