Be Creative #72 Comments

[mljrbg]

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We would love to hear from you.

Images are here. (http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45936)

[Chesney]

Hi everyone! Mary Lou asked me to make comments for her this week so here I am. Mary Lou, hope you husband is doing fine after surgery and I feel I can talk for everyone here, we are all thinking of you and your family!

I loved Mary Lou's challenge and some very creative works came from it!
Mary Lou: Loved you diagonal lines and how they lead the eye to your bird - great contrasting colors in this!

Martha - way too cool, the pineapple and background lines kinda gave a groovy island feel to the image!

Dspec01: Beautiful parrot, loved the partial effect, I felt the background was softer and less busy which really showed this guy off!

BJ: Love that elephant, he is too cool! The background kinda gave a sense of motion to the picture! Also loved the soft curves on your ostrich image - a totally different feel of the effect!

BillZ: Go figure, a car!! Love the funky background to your funky car - way too fun!!

Sosdog: I think your dog is getting dizzy from all of the lines - look at that smile! LOL Love it!

Suzanne: What a fun image and love the addition of the shadow!

Sharon: What a majestic bird, your background makes him "pop", spectacular work!

Toni: This PSE at it's best, very well donw and love that chicken wire man! Wins for the most unique!

Clara: Love the soft background you gave this handsome fella! Very nice!

Pete: What talent, love this OOB, you did an incredible job on the soft lines in the background, makes this OOB pop that much more!

MKS! Atom Ant is the coolest! This put a smile on my face, you are so creative!

I loved seeing all of your creations (and Mary Lou will too)!

[Aussie Nan]

Thank you Tammy for going to all this effort, it really is appreciated. And thanks for liking my chicken wire man too, I'm rather fond of him.

[BJ!]

Tammy, thanks for the all the comments. I also think all the images submitted were creative & fun!

[TonyK]

I got frustrated trying this one, I never could get the results following along. Oh well , I'm sure it was something I was doing wrong but for the life of me I couldn't figure it out.

[Zeria]

Tammy
Thanks for the comments-----

TonyK ---- initially, I had trouble figuring out the steps.....so, below is a simple adaptation that I've written for myself --- hope this helps...

You can use any size image, but for my purposes, I used an 800 x 600 image.

1. Duplicate the background layer

2. Using the duplicate layer, choose the marquee tool.

3. In the marquee tool option bar select the Mode> Fixed size
For Width 20 pixels and Height 600 pixels

4. Click on the duplicate layer and the selection (dancing ants) will appear.

5. Choose the move tool ---- position the selection anywhere on the image. Shown below

6. Click and drag the center anchor (on the right) to the right edge. Click and drag the left anchor to the left edge. Shown below

7. Now that you have your lines commit the transformation.

8. Add a layer mask --- by default, the mask is white, allowing everything to "pass" through and you will see only your lined layer. Painting black on the mask will block the lines. Shown below is the layers palette. Shown separately is the final image.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1GwhAGyovc0lKmoRgVHMUSvBW24EWY0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1GwhAGyovc0lKmoRgVHMUSvBW24EWY0)

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1iG67qwMq85mDYFw33yKrJzdU5c4DS1_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1iG67qwMq85mDYFw33yKrJzdU5c4DS1)

All of the steps above can be altered----you do not need to use a fixed size for the selection; you could use Free Transform instead of the Move tool; you could tilt your selection; you could use a horizontal selection, etc.

Edit: The palette layer incorrectly shows the copy layer grouped with the background layer. The layers do not need to be grouped.


Have fun.