Post by Meluivan Indil on Sept 4, 2006 18:38:49 GMT -5
Well I told a couple of you that I'd figure out how to do this and I finally did.
Okay first thing you must know .abr files do not work with this tutorial. You must download the Imagepack files for this to work. For example .png, .jpg, .gif files. Any of these file extensions will work.
Okay first you must download your brushes and load them into photofiltre. If the file came with several brushes on one picture you must first crop out each picture and save it as a seperate file. At that point you want to use the transparency function to remove the white. It is up to you how much tolerance you choose to use. Just play with it until it looks good to you. Save the tranparent copy to the Patterns folder inside of your Photofiltre folder. You can not save a transparency as a .jpg file. You have to use either .gif or .png.
This is the brush I am choosing for this photo.
This is the picture after the transparency is applied.
As you can see the lace work on the left hand side is harder to see on the transparency but it will be easy to see against any color but white.
Okay here is the picture we will transpose it onto. I will warn you just copy and pasting the transparency looks completely horrible. You do not want to try.
Alright now load your picture you want to add the brush to into Photofiltre. Decide what part of the photo you want to add the brush to. I have chose the open black left hand side of this photo. Use the selection tool to draw a box of whatever shape you wish to load it into.
At this point you want to click Edit.
Then click Stroke and Fill.
On the box that pops up you want to uncheck Stroke and check Fill.
Then use the eyedropper to select the same color as the background on your photo. Black in the case of this picture.
Below the eyedropper tool is the Fill patern. Click on the folder icon to the right and select the transparency file you just made.
Below that is Fade. You will have to play around with this to decide what opacity you wish to use. Just keep changing it and hitting preview until it looks good to you. Then click okay. You should see that the program tiled the transparency downward. This is common if your space is larger than the Fill file. If you do not want this you will have to choose a smaller section of the photo to fill or enlarge the size of the transparency.
You will probably notice that Diasuke's hair tips have a slight darker hue than the rest of him.
See this picture.
This is easily corrected using the Smudge tool that you see to the right hand side. Just slide from the lighter red into the darker color easily on the precise scale and this should give it a more natural look.
See here.
Okay I have also found that in the case of some brushes you can not use the transparency option. The finer the lines the harder they will be able to see with the transparency. So in these case you may be able to use a very low opacity with the black and white brush.
For example: This is a picture that I used the regular black and white brush on a very low setting and then applied a photmasque at a low opacity also to round it out.
As you can see the lighter colores worked out well but they do not work so well on black or darker colored backgrounds.
Anyhow you all have the basics, so just play around with it and you might find easier ways to do this than I did.
Well this concludes this tutorial. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
M.
Okay first thing you must know .abr files do not work with this tutorial. You must download the Imagepack files for this to work. For example .png, .jpg, .gif files. Any of these file extensions will work.
Okay first you must download your brushes and load them into photofiltre. If the file came with several brushes on one picture you must first crop out each picture and save it as a seperate file. At that point you want to use the transparency function to remove the white. It is up to you how much tolerance you choose to use. Just play with it until it looks good to you. Save the tranparent copy to the Patterns folder inside of your Photofiltre folder. You can not save a transparency as a .jpg file. You have to use either .gif or .png.
This is the brush I am choosing for this photo.
This is the picture after the transparency is applied.
As you can see the lace work on the left hand side is harder to see on the transparency but it will be easy to see against any color but white.
Okay here is the picture we will transpose it onto. I will warn you just copy and pasting the transparency looks completely horrible. You do not want to try.
Alright now load your picture you want to add the brush to into Photofiltre. Decide what part of the photo you want to add the brush to. I have chose the open black left hand side of this photo. Use the selection tool to draw a box of whatever shape you wish to load it into.
At this point you want to click Edit.
Then click Stroke and Fill.
On the box that pops up you want to uncheck Stroke and check Fill.
Then use the eyedropper to select the same color as the background on your photo. Black in the case of this picture.
Below the eyedropper tool is the Fill patern. Click on the folder icon to the right and select the transparency file you just made.
Below that is Fade. You will have to play around with this to decide what opacity you wish to use. Just keep changing it and hitting preview until it looks good to you. Then click okay. You should see that the program tiled the transparency downward. This is common if your space is larger than the Fill file. If you do not want this you will have to choose a smaller section of the photo to fill or enlarge the size of the transparency.
You will probably notice that Diasuke's hair tips have a slight darker hue than the rest of him.
See this picture.
This is easily corrected using the Smudge tool that you see to the right hand side. Just slide from the lighter red into the darker color easily on the precise scale and this should give it a more natural look.
See here.
Okay I have also found that in the case of some brushes you can not use the transparency option. The finer the lines the harder they will be able to see with the transparency. So in these case you may be able to use a very low opacity with the black and white brush.
For example: This is a picture that I used the regular black and white brush on a very low setting and then applied a photmasque at a low opacity also to round it out.
As you can see the lighter colores worked out well but they do not work so well on black or darker colored backgrounds.
Anyhow you all have the basics, so just play around with it and you might find easier ways to do this than I did.
Well this concludes this tutorial. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
M.