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,
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.
Brian said: 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.
Thanks, Brian! The fact that you thought that second sand writing was real is a compliment. It's a little easier to get fake the sand if it's an aerial view. I spent a little more effort making the displaced sand look....well...more displaced. :-) The perspective is little wonky, but I was concentrating more on the piled sand.
I looked at a few of PS tutorials, but most of them went the route of masking some sand and working with it on a new layer. I tried that first, but I couldn't get it to look right. I thought brush-stroking the mask would look more realistic -- at least good enough for what Chris wanted to accomplish.