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beansgood
Joined: 29 Aug 2007
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 Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: Desperately seeking direction |
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I have to recreate the following attachment using different colours (at least come close to it). I have NO idea where to start as I'm proficient as a prepress technician (meaning I fix things for print) but have never had to extend my photoshop skills this far.
All I need is direction.. a tutorial, a link - anything specifically related that I can use as a learning tool. Someone suggested that I get a clean scan and edit colours. Not an option.
Thank you for any help.
The portion in the top left is pasted into a fairly consistent part of the another image. It's part of a panel in a brochure with some kind of Chinese looking text. The rest of it is the front and back cover of a presentation folder.
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Gallo_Pinto
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Location: BC, Canada
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Assuming you have a scanner os some method of accurate reproduction, I wouldn't bother to do much in Photoshop. To get things like that painted-looking background, I find I'd spend hours in photoshop and be dissapointed, when 15 minutes with a paintbrush willd o the trick.
Here's a *very* quick photoshop attempt though. I started with the photo int he top left inset. I used some watercolour filters on it. Then I copied it and blurred it and used a mask tog et the blurring only where I wanted it. I sampled the colours from your example and used them in a gradient map to reproduce the desired colour pretty closely.
Just start with some random photo that you htnk you can get some nice motle shapes out of. if I was you I'd just google "brick wall" and grab something.
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beansgood
Joined: 29 Aug 2007
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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A thousand thank you's.
I will have to play around using your excellent example. Looks like it might work.
But... how bout that section with what looks like Chinese text? Layers, transparencies.... I kinda have an idea of what's been done but not so sure how it was done.
What you've given me, Gallo_Pinto, thus far, is a good starting point. I don't have colour changes yet (based on PMS values) but it's a good place to start. Never too late/too old to learn.
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