Photoshop tutorials----playing with colors(blog #2)

After reviewing several tutorials, I combined several skill that can help a lot to make some dramastic effects on photos. Many of them are playing with the mask layers and color balance.
Here are some screenshots:

This is the original picture, I want to add more dramatic effect to make it look more sad. So I used the Image>Adjustment>curves to make it darker.

 Now that I used the Blur tool to stress the main theme by making contrast on clearness. I pressed Q and used the Brush tool to draw the area I want to stress, and pressed Q again. Now the area marked are selected, I went to the Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur (Skill from Make Up:http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/3)

Then I used skill from Selective negative with mask layer and did some effects playing with the color. This one is combining the selective negative using the mask layer(http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/162271/how-to-do-a-selective-negative-or-color-image-using-a-mask-layer) and the re-lighting subject(http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/163028/lighting) basicly using the merge of layers and Blur tool. It's that easy out of imagination!

Now the audience for sure can feel some "soul" of theme from the dramatic effect of the picture without the word statement. I think it's pretty nice and useful.

Amazing art from Makoto Shinkai

                                  5cm/sec---the speed of falling cherry blosson petals
During the time I fasinated cartoon, I was totally captured by works from Makoto Shinkai. All the pictures were came from daily photograph, and edited by photoshop with excellent professional drawing skill. Makota perfectly turned these art works into cartoon movies. It's more alive than movie, more fascinating than cartoons.
These pictures are screenshots from his famous work, 5 centimeter per second. 5cm/second is defined as the speed for cherry blosson petals to fall onto the ground. Cherry blosson is known as the symbol of love, innocence, teenage years, or lovely stuffs. Referring to the Good Old Time, dennotation of cherry blosson always gives connotation of beautiful memories in fairy tales.


In this work, the denotation of sunlight is obvious with connotation of hope in the future. Two teenagers standing in the center of the enitre picture, in our point of view, are referring to teenagers like them among the audience. The audience can easily read the connotation of a sparkling future and therefore encouraged.




Reference:
http://baike.baidu.com/view/752770.htm