Tutorial behind A Boy and His Ray

[memorris]

First of all, I'm not going into the edge canvas text thing. I'm sure there have been plenty of tuts on this stuff. That reduces the steps in this process to 3.

1. Since this pic was pretty much a throw away, I didn't give in to the urge to sharpen/color correct etc. Just decided to make the process do everything. First menu select <Filter><Fliter Gallery>. Next click on the scroll list in the top right corner of the Fliter Gallery and pick "Accent Edges". Adjust Edge Width, Edge Brightness and Smoothness sliders to suit your taste/needs. I used 4, 24, and 7 respectively. Accept.

2. Next, menu select <Filter><Artistic><Dry Brush>. Adjust Brush Size. Brush Detail and Texture sliders to suit your taste/needs. I used 5,5, and 1 respectively. Accept.

3. Next, menu select <Layer><Adjustment Layer><Hue and Stauration and accept whatever Elements offers as a layer name. Adjust the Hue, Saturation and Lightness sliders to suit your taste/needs. Don't forget that you can adjust the individual channels. Accept what ever pleases you and merge the whole thing down to 1 layer, or not, depending on whatever else you have in mind. In a matter of minutes you've snached an unusable pic from the Recycle Bin and made an artistic statement out of it.

The most importent consideration here is composition and color selection. If you have a good composition, nothing else matters, don't give up. Save that moment!!!

Here's the Before and After

[SharLamb]

Great save! I love the effect, and am printing off the instructions. Thanks for the tut.
Shar

[memorris]

Originally Posted by SharLamb

Great save! I love the effect, and am printing off the instructions. Thanks for the tut.
Shar

So, how did it work for you?

[tfry]

Very nicely done!

[memorris]

Originally Posted by tfry

Very nicely done!

Thank you, I used to be a fan of Corel, back in dos days. Guess I'm going to have to see what they have to offer lately