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The challenge is to take a background page and use it as an overlay. I'll show you how. I think this is a great technique and I plan on using this A LOT!
The orginal BG pages are below. I thought it might help to see what they started as, and then look at the example and see how they turned out.
Here are the PSE directions:
1. open a file, add a solid colour BG page and then add your picture. 2. open a BG page with a dense pattern - words work great! 3. make sure the patterned paper is the top layer in your file and make sure it is highlighted. 4. remove the colour from it (In PSE: enhance>adjust colour>remove colour) 5. make sure that the pattern that you want to see is white. If it is in reverse, then reverse your colours (in PSE: Filter>adjustments>invert) 6. the pattern should now be white and the background should be black. Enhance the difference (in PSE: Enhance>Adjust Lighting>brightness/ contrast) and slide the marker for contrast so that the blacks and whites are more dramatic 7. Now, I don't know what to call this, but you want to remove all the black and leave only the white (in PSE: make sure the correct layer is targeted, then go to the box that has the blending mode at the top of the layer's palette. Choose `screen') 8. Adjust the opacity until you like the overlay. 9. Remove the pattern from over the faces in the picture (in PSE: choose your lasso, change the feathering to a large number, like 100, and then draw a rough circle around the faces. Click OK).
Have Fun!!!
If you play along, please share your hard work with us and upload to your gallery! Make sure you add DGC013 to your keywords (additional keywords are OK, just separate them with commas), and PLEASE post a link here in this thread; we would NOT want to miss it! Also, if you aren't a FAN CLUB member, please observe the NO UPLOAD on SUNDAY rule!
You can find all submissions for this challenge here: DGC013
Oh boy, I am definitely going to try this one. I love these challenges!
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Okay.... Here is my page! I downloaded PSE and started playing with it. It took me most of the evening to complete my page, but it is finished. It still needed lots of work but I did learn how to do the overlay which was the main part of the challenge. It was hard but it was fun and I would try it again sometime.
DGC013 01.20.09 (converting BG page to overlay)
