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Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM II

09/23/2007 10:38:43 PM · #1

I have been inspired to play around with textures and stuff and came up with this using brushes, anyone have any other grunge recourses? I have never really used them before

thanks

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CalamitysMaster00

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

09/23/2007 10:52:26 PM · #2

Well, under the "How'd they Do That" section here for tutorials, there are some really great ideas and tools. I found that deviantart.com is the best place to start with cool brushes and filters. :)

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

09/23/2007 11:07:13 PM · #3

oh awesome

wavelength

Nikon D300

09/23/2007 11:20:26 PM · #4

I find that textures are usually best applied to flat or negative space areas. The draw too much attention to themselves when applied over complicated backgrounds, IMO.

Here's some more.
//www.grungetextures.com/

And some brushes:
//tutorialblog.org/free-photoshop-brushes/

09/23/2007 11:35:52 PM · #5

sweet, i just got a bunch of cracked concrette and pealing paint ones from the grungetextures sight, they are so fun!

09/24/2007 05:38:10 AM · #6

heres a couple i did earlier... quite a different approach to yours. Used some brushes and some other bits I have lying around in my collection. The portrait was done with a picture of my brick wall outside with a twisty vine thing going up it, changing the blending to soft light and reducting the opacity to taste, then lowering brightness and boosting the contrast and blacks.

Makes me look pretty.

enjoy :)

Message edited by author 2007-09-24 05:42:05.

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

09/27/2007 01:58:14 AM · #7

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oOWonderBreadOo

Canon EOS-5D

09/27/2007 03:34:52 AM · #8

lots of cool stuff here :0)

//www.mayang.com/textures/

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

09/27/2007 03:47:52 AM · #9

Brushes from dubtastic. There's also a tutorial for these grunge borders.

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED

09/27/2007 10:17:00 AM · #10

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Nald

Nikon D700

09/27/2007 03:40:24 PM · #11

Did this one with brushes as well.

09/30/2007 08:21:42 PM · #12

Mmmm... fun.

09/30/2007 08:38:39 PM · #13

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yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

09/30/2007 08:54:59 PM · #14

Originally posted by Tez:

Mmmm... fun.

That looks really good. I assume you added the texture or did you flesh out what was already there? Either way, I like it. It looks like it's part of the environment and not floating above it.

BlueZamia

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

09/30/2007 09:16:38 PM · #15

My best effort with layers and textures.
Wish I took better notes. Always wish I took better notes.

Message edited by author 2007-09-30 21:17:13.

yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

09/30/2007 10:34:20 PM · #16

Originally posted by BlueZamia:

My best effort with layers and textures.
Wish I took better notes. Always wish I took better notes.

Are you saying you don't remember your editing steps? If you're using photoshop you can enable the history log in the preferences. Once you do that it will document every step and save it in a text file.

zxaar

09/30/2007 10:50:40 PM · #17

Originally posted by yanko:

If you're using photoshop you can enable the history log in the preferences. Once you do that it will document every step and save it in a text file.

Sorry for my ignorance but how to enable it in CS2.

BlueZamia

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

09/30/2007 11:03:35 PM · #18

Originally posted by zxaar:

Originally posted by yanko:
If you're using photoshop you can enable the history log in the preferences. Once you do that it will document every step and save it in a text file.

Sorry for my ignorance but how to enable it in CS2.

Thanks.
I knew there was a place. never found it. Now I need to see if I had it turned on for that image. It was PS7 I think

From PS3 help

Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
Click the History Log preference to toggle from on to off or vice versa.
In the History Log Options panel, choose one of the following options:
Metadata Saves the history log as metadata embedded in each file.

Text File Exports the history log to a text file. You are prompted to name the text file and choose a location in which to store it.

Both Stores metadata in the file and creates a text file.
Note: If you want to save the text file in a different location or save another text file, click the Choose button, specify where to save the text file, name the file if necessary, and click Save.

ETA I turned it on in August sometime, but never checked to see what it got me. Not recorded for the above image

Message edited by author 2007-09-30 23:15:51.

10/01/2007 05:23:26 AM · #19

Originally posted by yanko:

Originally posted by Tez:

Mmmm... fun.

That looks really good. I assume you added the texture or did you flesh out what was already there? Either way, I like it. It looks like it's part of the environment and not floating above it.

It's the base picture with 5 pictures pasted over it at different opacities and blending modes and mostly masking my buddy from a lot of them so he wasn't covered in the texturing.

There's one pic of a cracked brick wall, another of a stone fence, another of a broken wooden plank, one of peeling paint on my gatepost and another one of some wet cardboard that had gone all corrugated. The opacity was usually never higher than 50% on soft light mode to keep it from looking obviously fake.

Then all you have to do is lower brightness, raise contrast, desat to about -50% and maybe turn it towards cyan to make it look cooler, or whatever else you thnk. I added a couple of colorized layers in there of really desaturated yellow to make it look sickly.

Then did 2 passes of high pass filter, curves, levels, boosted the blacks, dodge/burn added the border through grunge brushes I have lying around and theres a whole host of other things I can't quite remember but that's the jist.

Thanks for the comments though :) Very much appreciated.

zxaar

10/01/2007 07:37:37 AM · #20

Originally posted by BlueZamia:

Originally posted by zxaar:

Originally posted by yanko:
If you're using photoshop you can enable the history log in the preferences. Once you do that it will document every step and save it in a text file.

Sorry for my ignorance but how to enable it in CS2.

Thanks.
I knew there was a place. never found it. Now I need to see if I had it turned on for that image. It was PS7 I think

From PS3 help

Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
Click the History Log preference to toggle from on to off or vice versa.
In the History Log Options panel, choose one of the following options:
Metadata Saves the history log as metadata embedded in each file.

Text File Exports the history log to a text file. You are prompted to name the text file and choose a location in which to store it.

Both Stores metadata in the file and creates a text file.
Note: If you want to save the text file in a different location or save another text file, click the Choose button, specify where to save the text file, name the file if necessary, and click Save.

ETA I turned it on in August sometime, but never checked to see what it got me. Not recorded for the above image

thank you for detailed post i will check it. thanks again.

10/01/2007 01:10:59 PM · #21

A different subject but still using a grunge technique.

Hope you like it.

10/01/2007 06:51:24 PM · #22

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And another one.

Sunshine86

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

10/01/2007 10:26:45 PM · #23

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a quickie edit of an old photo, some of the grunge was already there though... lol

12/20/2007 08:31:02 PM · #24

New shot from today...