Week 4
Darkroom Apprentice Journeyman Master Vectors PSP8 PSP8 - Moving Up Butterfly Bark Painting

Terry Grogan

Again, this week, I used tools I've never tried in PSP - color replacer, retouch brush, scratch removal and clone brush.
I had fun! (not as much fun as with tubes, but fun, heehee).

This is the picture with the city sky, after I merged it in and after I used the "push" brush.  I did have to go smaller than 5, my hand isn't that steady. I used a size of 3.

Here's the rose after using the eraser tool.  It does look better.

Here's the old lady using the scratch removal technique.  I must say, I had difficulty figuring out which parts of the picture were scratches and which parts belonged there.

This is a picture of my great grandfather, taken in 1935. I was able to use the scratch removal tool to get rid of many of the marks.

You can use these tools for new photos as well.  Here, I didn't want the fishing rod in the way, so I used the clone tool to put sand over the fishing rod.  Also, I used my point-to-point selection tool, selected the image around the father and son up to about the knees, then used the Gaussian blur effect at 1.5 to "fade the background" and give the picture some depth.

Here's my ballerina effect.  I used the color foil effect, but I used the magic wand and selected the black first, then inverted the image and applied the effect so I wouldn't lose the background. This is the boat cutout. I did use an interior fill of purple with this.

These are my "drop shadow" pictures, though I used some of the other things taught this week in the first one.  Both pictures are made with tubes.  In the left one, I really moved the shadow of the clown far to the right, so it looks like the sunburst (an illumination effect) is creating the shadow.  Also, I used the cutout, but inverted the border selection so it would be on the inside, then with the border selected I used the artistic effect of pattern and the 3D effect of inner bevel at the pillow preset. The bear on the right is just 7 layers of bear, balloons, confetti streamers, each with the same drop shadow setting.