Digital Photography Ideas

Friday, April 25, 2008

Using the Warp Tool in Photoshop

Hi All,

I created an image from a digital photograph in Painter and Photoshop. I was almost done, but didn't like the clouds -- they were like a bull's eye in the center of the image.

I came up with a simple solutions so I didn't have to start all over.

This is the finished piece and the sequence below it shows the transition:

Abiquiu, New Mexico

I began with this image:

I painted the photograph in Corel painter and it looked like this:

The image below shows..

... the next step.I moved it into photoshop and brightened it up with one filter and and color adjustments. Wow, I don't have to be an expert in Painter to achieve the paintings I want. But the center of the sky looked like a bull's eye. I didn't want to start all over again. That's when I thought of the warping tool.

I selected the sky and made it into a separate layer and placed the warping tool over it. Then I warped the clouds over to the right.