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
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.
Patti
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.