Photoshop Tutorial 2

Tutorial 2
17/01/2012

Today we had another photoshopping tutorial, our task was to try and attempt to copy a photoshopped art piece called Shatter. Shown Below.

We had to try and redo the above image in our way way, in how we think it was done, my attempt is shown below. 

This was my attempt, as you can see mine wasnt too far off, but I still felt it needed a little change.

The tutorial consisted of first creating a black background, and easy way of doing this instead of using the manual fill, is by pressing CTRL+I to invert the white background to black.

From there we created a new layer, and created the text first off ( rather than creating the mist first like i did ) we then double clicked the layer area to get the layer settings up, we fiddled with the bevvle and emboss settings with the stroke to change the general design of the text, learning this technique I found im able to customize the text in a different way. 

From there we decided to use the lasso tool around the text to get a selection area, on a new layer, we then went to..

Select>Modify>Feather Selection

To include the selection area on the text, from there we went...

Filter>Render>Clouds

From there we used the Radial blur around the text to give it a shining effect, We then used the Hue/Satuation to change and edit the colours around the Text and background, the result is below.

Afterwards we went on to write about two images by an artist called oliver ottner, Below are his two images, to which I will give a Brief analysis. 

The first Image by Oliver Ottner, is a woman with a snake skin I really like this image as the skin appears smooth and stylish, with a natural coloured snake skin. The method he used was different layer methods on the right hand side, and using masks to add and remove parts of the skin. the same method is used on the picture below.

I also liked this second image as even though im aware its custom made it makes me feel like it is a realistic stone creation, its design is very in depth, with how it utilizes the blending abilities with the stone.