Masking and advanced patterns - part 1

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Hi everyone in this tutorial I've masked some flowers and used them to create patterns.

You can find here:

- how to use the channels to mask an object
- how to create a perfect and homogeneous pattern.
- how the offset filter works.
- how to clone and fix with the Clone Stamp.
- some general suggestions in masking an object. (a flower in this tutorial)

Here the sources used:

http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-album/Mario/2465/481b2e0709304/3.html

http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-album/mymyb37/1791/47f4a27f36ad6/white-flowers.html

http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-album/Trojan/1542/4772f4a40e75b/Flowers.html

http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-album/hilleke/1490/476cf68da21b9/waterlily.html

http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-album/hilleke/1441/4768f7f0a6f7e/orange-flowers.html

Thanks to Mario, mymyb37, Troian and hilleke

I think you can do this tutorial even with a Photoshop CS2 version.

Enjoy!

End result:
Masking and advanced patterns Final Image

Score: 9 / 10

author:

giallo86

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step 1

Those are the photos used.
Let's begin masking the first flower

step 2

Here is the first. Notice the strong contrast between the green of the leaves and the orange of the flower.
This is perfect for our work on channels.

step 3

In the channel menu (on the right in the layers menu) you have the channels of colours: all (RGB) and then red, green, blue. Normally is switched to RGB.
Now we choose the red one by clicking on it. Notice the pretty nice contrast of the flower: this happens because the orange color is near to red (and we are on a red channel now).

step 4

Now duplicate the channel: right click and duplicate.

Then press ctrl+L to adjust the levels: we want to obtain a hard contrast like black/white.

To do so switch the arrows of shadows,highlights and midtones as showed in the image.

step 5

Ok now take a simple brush of a decent size and clean the imprecise zones such as the center of the flower

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