Start by selecting your burn brush to darken areas of your cut out image. To fill your layer with 50% gray choose Edit>Fill from the top drop down menu then select 50% gray from the contents drop down menu. Dodging and burning helps make your composition more convincing by wrapping shadows and light around your subject. You can adjust the intensity of the shadow layer by changing the amount of layer opacity.ĥ. In this example, we painted heavily on the wall and floor on the right hand side since the light coming from the left would cast a shadow in this manner. Adding shadows is one of the most important steps to creating a realistic composition. It's fun to experiment with different light combinations.Ĥ.
We've only turned on one light here, but you can turn on multiple lights if your subject calls for it. Through an efficient interface which shows the direction Topaz Labs software is taking, and follows the logic of other products from the company, the program gives you access not only to textures and multiple blending modes, but a collection of effects that transform Texture Effects in a whole factory of textures instead of a canned solution. You can also adjust the intensity of the lights by changing the layer opacity. These lights are repositionable, so you can move them to suit your image if needed. We've ordered the lights beneath the cut out image layer in the layer palette to ensure only the background gets lit. Your composition will start to shape up nicely when you light the background. In this tutorial, we are using one of the digital backdrops from our Brick Grunge set.ģ.
This product is delivered as an immediate digital download For Mac and PC Use with Photoshop, Elements, all versions of ON1 Layers, Topaz Texture Effects, and any other photo editing software that allows the creative use of layers and blending modes 10 JPEG files at 2667. View the video tutorial link below to see it in action.Ģ. View a slideshow of the textures in the product gallery below. While there are many ways to do this, we've found that nothing compares to Topaz Remask. The most important part is getting a good extraction of your image from its original background.
Nearly all of my own images use one of these filters.Adding your images to our digital backdrops is a snap with this easy-to-follow tutorial for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements users. I get a small commission from any sales resulting from a click from this site (at no extra cost to you.) I really do love these filters. *Topaz Labs Filters is an affiliate link. Texture Collection: Autumn Rain Texture Collection. Save your stages so you can check as you go. You can see if you go too far, but it can be hard to see if you don't go far enough. (Color tweaked.)ĭon't be afraid to see how far you can push an image. A Digital Paper Texture from the Love Ya Textures Collection.Just for fun, here's another version using: It's harder to see the differences in these smaller resolution onscreen graphics, but there is a marked difference in the higher resolution version in vibrancy, detail and contrast - and also a more illustrative look. I could have applied Precision Detail while I was in * Topaz Labs Studio, but as I only used the Simplify preset at 35%, I preferred doing the detail separately. This time I applied the effect at 80 opacity to virtually the entire image, only removing it a bit on the anemones in the background and the column of the main subject. * Topaz Labs Detail Micro Contrast Enhancement II preset. A little less subtle again, for the photo above I used Topaz Impression with an effect called Georgia O’Keefe.* Topaz Labs Simplify Line and Ink I preset at 35%.These filters were applied in the * Topaz Labs Studioapplication via Photoshop. (brush with pink color on an overlay layer.)Īs I mentioned above, the first round still felt a little dull to me, so on a merged layers copy, I applied two more Topaz Labs* filters. Some color enhancements to the texture.Texture: Botanique from the Autumn Rain Texture Collection.* Topaz Labs Clarity filter (Flower III preset) followed by *Topaz Labs Clean filter.I thought I was done at this point - but there was something bothering me about it. Really pushing this textured photograph with filters created the artistic look I wanted.īelow is an example of my first edits.