Learn how to create abstracts using Photoshop

Blocked Pixels

2011-03-02T10:32:00.000+05:30

1. Open a new document, for this tutorial we used 500x90. Size won't matter. Click D for default colors.

2. Apply Filter > Render > Clouds.

3. Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic
Setting: Cell Size 16

4. Filter > Brush Strokes > Ink Outlines

Settings:
Stroke Length 4
Dark Intensity 20
Light Intensity 10

5. Ctrl+U> >Check colorize > Find the color you like.
Blue was used in this example.

Heating Effect

2011-03-02T10:13:00.000+05:30

This tutorial is for those who know some basics about Adobe Photoshop

Start off with your render such as the one below there should be clear areas for lightning potential.

Using the polygon lasso tool with no feather select the area for lighting be sure to include any little jagged bits to add interest as below.

Then fill this layer with a good deep color slightly darker than the intended lighting color as shown below.

Then duplicate that previous layer and set this new layer to color dodge the result should be a brighter color something close to what you want.

Select the original (orange) light layer and apply filter --> Blur --> Gaussian blur radius 6 The result should be similar to below

Finally on a new layer, with the above brush settings and a deep red color brush around the top and particularly the bottom below the light set this layer to soft light.
The result should be similar to that below.

Here is an example of it in use.

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Go through the following links to learn more about creating comics in Adobe Photoshop

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Abstract Airbrushing

2011-02-26T17:46:00.001+05:30

This tutorial is for those who know some basic abstract brushing.

1. Start, Blank image. 500x500 for this one. Go into your brushes menu, and click textures and choose one of them, like this one. I also stuck on scattering to make it more distorted and funkey.

2. White brush, black backround. Splatter, unevenly. Fiddle with the flow a bit. Make sure you do all this on a seperate layer, It helps in the long run.

3. Same as in every other cloud tutorial, smudge the hell out of it with a nice grunge brush, or something with tons of jagged edges, with a low flow. Make sure their uneven strokes, and random.

4. Now this is the part I hadn't found out for so long. Go Edit - Transform - Perspective. Make it sharp looking, or however you want it to fit your image.

5.Now to blotch it a bit. Duplicate it (copy and paste), and drop the lighting on it to -100.

6. Time to play with the perspective more. Take the dark layer, and change the perspective on it. Repeat this step as many times as wanted.

7. After this, you can continue to mess with it in further ways. Try waving it then fading the wave about 50%. Color balances are also fun to fiddle with. Of course, because its on a separate layer, It can be shoved into a render quite nicely

8. Make collection of similar abstracts to get stunning results

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