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15Artistic Filters

You can use the flters that Photoshop provides to create artistic sketches. To illustrate

this, the ollowing sketch o a shipwreck viewed through the porthole o another ship willbe created:

Starting a New Document1 Load Photoshop Elements in EDIT MODE then display the FILE menu, highlight NEW

and select BLANK FILE.

3 Select OK to start the document.

2 Set the NAME to PORT HOLE, theWIDTH to 800 pixels, the HEIGHT to

600 pixels and the BACKGROUNDCOLOUR to WHITE.

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Setting the Background The CLOUDS flter will be used to create the sky or the sketch.

2 Display the FILTER menu, highlight RENDER and select CLOUDS to fll the layer withblack and white colours.

3 The clouds can be coloured to make them look more natural. Display theENHANCE menu, highlight ADJUST COLOUR and select ADJUST HUE/SATURATION.

1 Start a NEW LAYER in the LAYERSpalette then set the FOREGROUNDCOLOUR to WHITE and theBACKGROUND COLOUR to BLACK.

4 Turn on COLOURIZE then set theHUE to 209, the SATURATION to 30,the LIGHTNESS to -10 and select OK.

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Creating the Ocean The ocean can be created by combining the CLOUDS and BAS RELIEF flters.

5 Rename the layer: Sky

1 Start a new layer and rename it:

Ocean

2 Select the RECTANGULAR MARQUEE TOOL and drag a rame around thebottom hal o the sky.

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4 Display the FILTER menu again, highlight SKETCH and select BAS RELIEF.

6 Select OK to set the flter.

7 The colour o the ocean needs to be adjusted. Display the ENHANCE menu,highlight ADJUST COLOUR and select ADJUST HUE/SATURATION.

3 Display the FILTER menu, highlightRENDER and select CLOUDS to fllthe selection with black and whiteclouds.

5 Adjust the DETAIL to 10, theSMOOTHNESS to 4 and the LIGHT toBOTTOM.

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9 Select OK to complete the flter.

Adding Perspective to the Ocean To make the ocean look more realistic, its perspective can be altered.

1 Set the screen view to 50% so that you can see the whole canvas as well as somearea around it, then increase the document window i necessary.

2 Display the IMAGE menu, highlight TRANSFORM and select PERSPECTIVE.

8 Turn on COLOURIZE, set the HUE to200, the SATURATION to 50 and theLIGHTNESS to -15.

3 Drag the bottom right handle o theperspective rame to the right and thebottom line o the selection will beincreased.

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6 Press to accept the trans ormation then press CTRL+D to deselect therame around the ocean.

7 Save the document in your STORAGE older as a PHOTOSHOP fle under the flename:

Port Hole

4 Drag the top le t and right handlesdown then move them to the edges

o the canvas.

5 Use the DOWN ARROW key to nudgethe ocean past the base o thecanvas.