PS Tips for beautiful flowers

How to let the lack of new ideas in the photo of new tricks, below and everyone to share a course of the crow, teach you to use PS to create Zen-aesthetic flowers.

1. Comparison diagram and analysis of ideas

Effect Chart Contrast

Analysis: The screen is a bit messy, the color of the leaves is not transparent, the subject of the backlight is somewhat dark. The whole picture has no new ideas.

Solution: Through processing and filter to make the Maple leaf virtual and displacement, thereby changing the smart, like the Lotus as more with artistic conception. Break the routine, let the theme change the original, create flowers and flowers effect. So that the leaves also have a lotus-smart.

Effect: After processing the screen more transparent, full of smart and magical feeling. Maple Leaf to become abstract lotus.

2. Copy layer Add soft light

Duplicate layers Add soft light

Copy the original image and adjust the layer 1 blending mode to soft light. This will make the leaves more transparent.

3. Adjust the brightness of contrast

Black is overweight in the picture. Reduce contrast and increase brightness. Contrast:-8 brightness +27. The data is for informational purposes only, depending on the circumstances.

Adjust brightness of contrast

4. Adjust the color balance

Adjust color balance

Initially adjust the screen tone and part of the color, so that warm yellow color, conducive to the next treatment. Adjust color balance, middle tone: red +11 yellow-8 high light: Red +7 Yellow-8.

5. Stamped layer and copy

Stamped layers (shortcut key shift+ctrl+alt+e), and then copy a layer.

Stamped layers and copy

6. Add Filter effect

Add Filter effect

Use filters on the Layer 2 copy to eyecandy4.0> the Dim squint. Eyecandy is a well-known large-eye plug-in, which has many built-in effects. Parameters: 1.27

7. Add a layer mask to decorate the screen

Wipe must use soft brush, low transparency 10%. Pay attention to the screen contrast, so that the actual situation of the picture.

Add a layer Mask decoration screen

8. Adjust Saturation

Adjust saturation

Because of the loss of the screen saturation, adjust the screen saturation, saturation of +25. The saturation is slightly higher and the adjustment is made after a few steps.

9. Adjust the color balance again

Adjust the color balance again

Shadow: Red +11 middle Tone: red +10 yellow-20 high light: Red +18 blue +6.

10. Adjust the optional color

Adjust alternate colors

Black: Magenta +15 yellow +12 Black-15

White: Magenta +22 Huangshe +16

At this point the yellow will overflow, but it does not matter, the last step will be adjusted.

11. Adjust contrast and brightness

Adjust contrast and brightness

Adjust the contrast of +14 brightness +32. Add contrast brightness to the screen to do subtraction, minus some miscellaneous parts, and finally complete the processing.

12. Share the author's experience

In addition, there are many plug-ins can also use line painting, can also make illusory effect. Can also be based on the screen need to add some lotus leaves, not open lotus or LSPC, more can increase the mood, but pay attention to the picture arrangement, do not gild the lily.

Experience: For some ordinary lack of creative photos we may wish to start from other angles, let the theme change the original face, so that the picture can glow new vitality. Try different effects and think more about your ideas. Unlimited creativity can be combined through a combination of filter and layer overlay patterns. I hope you will try a lot.

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