Hi everyone! Stopping in for another perspective tutorial…this one offering some little tips on blending the image into a background and on using props.<\/p>\n
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ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderSupplies: Off the Beaten Path 3 Papers<\/a>, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 2<\/a>, Soldered Sentiments 2<\/a>, Adventure Pak<\/a> (caterpillar) Simply Spring Scrap.Words<\/a> (ladybug), Blog Freebie<\/a> (title and quote) Here’s how the image started out:ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/p>\n My niece would have blended nicely into the grassy floor of the chosen background, but I wanted even more believability.<\/p>\n To accomplish this, I first dragged the image of my niece onto the background (Birch Forest from Off the Beaten Path 3 Papers), colorized her image to have a retro feel, then duplicated this image layer. I\u00a0used the Magnetic Lasso Tool for\u00a0an exacting extraction of her body\u00a0on the top image layer (cleaned up the edges with a small hard edged eraser tool at 100% opacity). On the lower layer image, I desaturated the color completely and\u00a0erased everything but the grass. I then applied a dry brush painting filter effect to the remaining grass (Filter>Artistic>Dry Brush), and set the layer blend mode of the grass to Linear Light at 50% opacity. This gave\u00a0a bit of a more realistic floor for her to walk on, even though the paper itself would have been just fine.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n For a prop, I dragged on one of our new umbrellas in Off the Beaten Path Elements 1 (coming soon), then flipped it horizontally (Image>Rotate>Flip Layer Horizontal) so the light was coming from the same direction as it was on her (from the left). For the mushroom (from Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 2), I added a custom perspective shadow mimicking her body’s shadow, which showed softly on the paper\/grass. The blog freebie coming tonight contains the quote and the 3D title (comes with and without perspective shadow), which I just dragged on the page to finish it off, along with the ribbon, ladybug, caterpillar, heart charm, and additional image. Just a fun page celebrating spring.<\/p>\n My last post<\/a> has a more in-depth perspective tutorial if you’d like more information.<\/p>\n For another snippet of inspiration, here’s a page created by Rachel using a favorite image I captured of Alyssa during one of her grad shoots. It shows how simple these pages can be, yet still evoke a powerful message to the viewer and creator. She sure rocked the shadow on Alyssa!<\/p>\n ngg_shortcode_3_placeholderSupplies: O<\/a>ff the Beaten Path Papers 2<\/a>, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 3<\/a> (t-pin), Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 2<\/a> (lace), Nature’s Sketchbook Ivy League Pak<\/a> (staple), Torn Newsprint Elements<\/a>, Simply Moments CD<\/a> (quote from fall flutter pak on cd)<\/span><\/p>\n ngg_shortcode_4_placeholder Happy creating…and we wish you a blessed Easter week!<\/p>\n Michelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everyone! Stopping in for another perspective tutorial…this one offering some little tips on blending the image into a background and on using props. Here’s the page: Supplies: Off the Beaten Path 3 Papers, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 2, Soldered Sentiments 2, Adventure Pak (caterpillar) Simply Spring Scrap.Words (ladybug), Blog Freebie (title and quote) Here’s how the image started out: My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,14],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-michelle-shefveland","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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