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Feb 16, 2020 15:35:24   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
Inspiration - Facebook Group Create 52 last week had as its theme "street lights." I've been seeing them everywhere ever since

Brush Making - For many in northern hemisphere this is a great time to find interesting trees to photograph high contrast, then create your own brush. So far, I've mostly used my home-made brushes like a stamp: a bird inserted here and there, for example.

Follow Your Bliss - a mostly colorless sunrise changed to happy colors!

Your feedback, suggestions, edits, and additions to this thread are welcomed.

If you have a high contrast graphical image that would make a good brush - and you're willing to share, please add the original file to this thread.

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Added color via an overlay, tree limbs and birds via my own brushes.
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2. Feel free to make a brush from this.
2. Feel free to make a brush from this....
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3. Original, shot through my windshield.
3. Original, shot through my windshield....

4. One way to make brushes, continued with #5
4. One way to make brushes, continued with #5...
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5. the rest of the brush-making instruction.
5. the rest of the brush-making instruction....
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Feb 16, 2020 18:28:17   #
kpmac Loc: Ragley, La
 
Your hard work paid off, Linda.

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Feb 16, 2020 18:29:01   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
kpmac wrote:
Your hard work paid off, Linda.
No work, all play. Thanks!

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Feb 16, 2020 18:56:17   #
minniev Loc: MIssissippi
 
What a cool thread! Here's a tree I shot last week during that same 52 Project assignment, to use as a silhouette. It has a flaw, where the sun came through, but I thought it would be fun to play with. I haven't had time to really give it attention so this is pretty rough edged but anyone is welcome to play with the tree and see what else they can do.


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Feb 16, 2020 19:14:37   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
minniev wrote:
What a cool thread! Here's a tree I shot last week during that same 52 Project assignment, to use as a silhouette. It has a flaw, where the sun came through, but I thought it would be fun to play with. I haven't had time to really give it attention so this is pretty rough edged but anyone is welcome to play with the tree and see what else they can do.
Thank you Minnie! Your colors are gorgeous.

I will play with it on Monday

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Feb 16, 2020 19:50:30   #
minniev Loc: MIssissippi
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
Thank you Minnie! Your colors are gorgeous.

I will play with it on Monday


Making it into a brush lets you be so much more graphic with it. Another trick that those folks with Adobe subscriptions have is Adobe Capture. It’s a lot of fun to make brushes with, and vector images. These things are great to build into composites.

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Feb 17, 2020 09:10:10   #
magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK
 
Brush Making...

Here is a traction engine that made rather a nice brush - anyone that fancies it is welcome to use it. I found the Threshold slider needs taking leftwards quite a bit but that's personal taste.
I'll also mention: when I was making the brush I found Pixels greyed out when resizing - this is because I didn't have the Resample box ticked. Also, I couldn't hold the aspect ratio - because I didn't have Width and Height linked. Easy to overlook and easy to remedy.
By the way, it wasn't necessary to white out the background for the brush, it was something I happened to have done for a previous project.


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Feb 17, 2020 09:19:41   #
Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida
 
Your finished work is really nice - a great improvement! I don’t know if I can make brushes in Affinity but I’m going to check it out.

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Feb 17, 2020 09:25:35   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
magnetoman wrote:
Brush Making...

Here is a traction engine that made rather a nice brush - anyone that fancies it is welcome to use it. I found the Threshold slider needs taking leftwards quite a bit but that's personal taste.
I'll also mention: when I was making the brush I found Pixels greyed out when resizing - this is because I didn't have the Resample box ticked. Also, I couldn't hold the aspect ratio - because I didn't have Width and Height linked. Easy to overlook and easy to remedy.
By the way, it wasn't necessary to white out the background for the brush, it was something I happened to have done for a previous project.
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I guess PSE has a simpler procedure (go figure ). When I click "define brush," I only have the option to give it a different name than the file itself. I hadn't thought about re-sizing the file since I was using only one element in the frame (like a tree or bird). I will look into that!

When using as a brush, I have the normal brush tool options: size, opacity, blend mode, and brush/tablet settings (for brush settings: fade, hue jitter, scatter, spacing, roundness).

With your colorful tractor scene, I found that upping contrast, then changing to b&w in Nik Silver Efex gives additional looks for how the "threshold" layer works.

Great stuff, thanks much Dave!


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Feb 17, 2020 09:27:02   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
Cwilson341 wrote:
Your finished work is really nice - a great improvement! I don’t know if I can make brushes in Affinity but I’m going to check it out.
Report back to us, Carol

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Feb 17, 2020 09:44:08   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
I parked magnetoman's tractor and the driver took a break

It doesn't blend in as well as would if positioned earlier on in my editing of this pic, but hopefully gives you the basic idea.

When you use these as graphics/stamps, place each on its own layer. That way you can flip position, resize or move, or delete with ease.

(belated edit: I thought something didn't look quite right in placement and then suddenly discovered I hadn't revealed the foreground fence post I re-did, using eraser tool.)


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Feb 17, 2020 09:49:24   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
Here is a screenprint of MinnieV's tree with "threshold" adjustment layer. Please note that you can crop and/or fill in with black or white to personalize or change what the threshold gives you prior to saving as brush.


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Feb 17, 2020 15:11:18   #
Whitewater11 Loc: Ellensburg, Washington
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
Inspiration - Facebook Group Create 52 last week had as its theme "street lights." I've been seeing them everywhere ever since

Brush Making - For many in northern hemisphere this is a great time to find interesting trees to photograph high contrast, then create your own brush. So far, I've mostly used my home-made brushes like a stamp: a bird inserted here and there, for example.

Follow Your Bliss - a mostly colorless sunrise changed to happy colors!

Your feedback, suggestions, edits, and additions to this thread are welcomed.

If you have a high contrast graphical image that would make a good brush - and you're willing to share, please add the original file to this thread.

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Inspiration - Facebook Group Create 52 last week h... (show quote)

Linds, it is amazing how much you contribute to UHH.

I was inspired to go looking for possible trees for making a stamp after your first post on this topic and confess that I still have them in camera because of limited time at the moment. I pulled a couple of them off the camera and am posting them unprocessed. Anyone is welcome to modify and use them and keep them as their own if they have some value. If you should want one in a larger size I would post it.


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Feb 17, 2020 15:18:55   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
Whitewater11 wrote:
Linds, it is amazing how much you contribute to UHH.

I was inspired to go looking for possible trees for making a stamp after your first post on this topic and confess that I still have them in camera because of limited time at the moment. I pulled a couple of them off the camera and am posting them unprocessed. Anyone is welcome to modify and use them and keep them as their own if they have some value. If you should want one in a larger size I would post it.
I appreciate your kind comments, Lynn, but this is fun, not work (well, as long as I stay out of main discussion forum, that is ).

I will definitely be trying that gorgeous tree you posted first. Many thanks for your support and interest!

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Feb 17, 2020 15:41:35   #
magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
I parked magnetoman's tractor and the driver took a break

It doesn't blend in as well as would if positioned earlier on in my editing of this pic, but hopefully gives you the basic idea.

When you use these as graphics/stamps, place each on its own layer. That way you can flip position, resize or move, or delete with ease.

(belated edit: I thought something didn't look quite right in placement and then suddenly discovered I hadn't revealed the foreground fence post I re-did, using eraser tool.)
I parked magnetoman's tractor and the driver took ... (show quote)


Looks good Linda but I wonder if a masked cut-out would be more controllable when the subject is used in this way?

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