Make a Different Way of Your Future 2breed
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| Friday, 21 August 2009 16:33 |
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Here's the original image I'll be starting with:
Photoshop Effects: The original image.
As I said, we'll be looking at a few different variations on the effect. Here's the first one we'll be working towards:
Photoshop Effects: One of the effects we'll be creating in this tutorial.
Here's the second one:
Photoshop Effects: A variation on the same effect.
And just as an example of how easily we can create what seems like an entirely different effect simply by changing a layer's blend mode, we'll finish off with this one:
Photoshop Effects: The final variation on the effect.
Let's get started. Step 1: Duplicate The Background LayerThe first thing I need to do for this effect is to duplicate my Background layer. With my image open in Photoshop, I can see in my Layers palette that I currently have only one layer, the Background layer, which contains my image:
Photoshop Effects: Photoshop's Layers palette showing the Background layer.
I'm going to duplicate that layer using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac), and now I can see in my Layers palette that I have two layers, with the copy of the Background layer above the original. Photoshop has named it "Layer 1":
Photoshop Effects: Press "Ctrl+J" (Win) / "Command+J" (Mac) to duplicate the Background layer.
Step 2: Pixelate The Duplicate LayerNext we need to pixelate the new layer, and we can do that by going up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, choosing Pixelate, and then choosing Mosaic. This brings up the "Mosaic" filter's dialog box. Drag the slider bar at the bottom to change the Cell Size option, which increases or decreases the number and size of pixels that are created from the image. Dragging to the right creates fewer but larger pixels, while dragging to the left gives you more but smaller pixels. I'm going to set my Cell Size to about 18:
Photoshop Effects: The "Mosaic" filter in Photoshop. Drag the slider bar at the bottom to increase or decrease the number and size of pixels.
Click OK to exit out of the dialog box. Here's my image after applying the Mosaic filter:
Photoshop Effects: The image after pixelating it with the Mosaic filter.
Now that we've pixelated the image, there's a few different things we can do with it, and we'll look at them next. |
