I have a vacation picture that is on a beach.
I want to make it look like there are some words or designs drawn into the beach.
How can I do that? I don't work in Photo Paint to much. I do most of my work in Draw since I deal with vector images 90% of the time.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Chris
csmajik4 said: I have a vacation picture that is on a beach. I want to make it look like there are some words or designs drawn into the beach.
I have a vacation picture that is on a beach. I want to make it look like there are some words or designs drawn into the beach.
There are several ways you could do this, I'm sure and I expect soon others will chime in with their methods. I think the approach would vary depending on whether you are wanting an aerial view of writing on a beach (easier, less details)...or if it's a closeup of sand (harder to match sand look). The challenging part would be getting the look of the displaced/piled sand around the lettering.
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To Create a Sand brush: Download my instructions for creating a glitter brush in Photo-Paint. The zip file contains an image and a text file with instructions. The idea is the same for creating a sand brush only I changed the settings to something like below. Play with the size and settings to match your sand. :)
Here's one I tried using a crop from a beach image of Anna Marie Island in Florida (the sand IS whitish). The displaced sand is a little too neat-looking, but I didn't spend a whole lot of time on it. You could go back and paint with the sand brush to make it look more random.
Patti
P.S. Warning: I probably averaged more crashes in PP when I was playing with this -- aaaarrrggghhh!
That's awesome and exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks so much for your help. You guys and gals are GREAT!!!!!
Glad to help! I tried another one just for fun using a beach scene and writing the letters a freehand with a paintbrush:
Hi Patti, that's great, very well done.
Hi Patti,
great work!! I liked all of your samples, and that last one had me fooled you had posted a real photo of drawing in sand when I first saw it!
I started trying a couple of things too, going down a similar route to you and even threw in High Pass Sharpening and Overlay merge mode into the mix (for a bump map type effect), but I crashed twice after putting a lot of work into it....so I became frustrated and gave in. PPX5 is ridiculously unstable, I am getting to a point where I am about to give in on it.
I really do love that last image you posted!
Best regards,Brian.
Hi Patti, you sent a message for help but you did not mention what help you needed
what is your operating system
Joe
by the way I think it is great image
elkhans said: Hi Patti, you sent a message for help but you did not mention what help you needed what is your operating system Joe by the way I think it is great image
Joe, I used the word HELP! in my examples because it had fewer letters. :) Although...I may have screamed it a couple times when PP crashed so many times on me! It seems to me the more layers you have, the more likely it is to crash. It just not acceptable. As for my operating system, I am using Windows 7 Pro/64bit.
And thanks to all for the nice comments. I've done many of these same type of tricks in Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements. I used to be a tutorial and Photoshop book junkie, but don't have as much time now. I DO like the challenge of trying to replicate these effects in Photo-Paint -- it's a good way to learn the software.