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Floating Pixels

Author: FotoFects More by this author

Added: Mar 23, 2005 Rating:  Average Rating: 3.04 Votes: 23 Position: 7485 of 12268Average Rating: 3.04 Votes: 23 Position: 7485 of 12268Average Rating: 3.04 Votes: 23 Position: 7485 of 12268Average Rating: 3.04 Votes: 23 Position: 7485 of 12268Average Rating: 3.04 Votes: 23 Position: 7485 of 12268 Level: Beginner Software:  Photoshop

Pixels of different luminance floating in a random pattern.
image 1 1. Create a new document, reset your foreground and background colors (D), then add a Clouds filter (Filter> Render> Clouds).
image 2 2. Apply a Find Edges filter (Filter> Stylize> FInd Edges).
image 3 3. Increase the contrast by apply an Auto Levels (Ctrl+Shift+L)
image 4 4. Apply a Charcoal filter (Filter> Sketch> Charcoal) with these settings:

Charcoal Thickness: 1
Detail: 5
Light/Dark Balance: 50

image 5 5. Invert the image (Ctrl+I).
image 6 6. Rotate the image by 45ºCW (Image> Rotate Canvas> Arbitrary)
image 7 7. Increase the highlights using the Maximum filter (Filter> Other> Maximum). I used a radius of 10.
image 8 8. Rotate the image by 45ºCCW (Image> Rotate Canvas> Arbitrary)
image 9 9. Crop the image.
image 10 10. Colorize the image using the Hue/Saturation tool (Ctrl+U). These are the settings I used:

Hue: 200
Saturation: 100
Lightness: 0

image 11 11. Create a new layer, add a Clouds filter (Filter> Render> Clouds) and change the blending mode to Overlay.
image 12 12. Repeat the previous step.
Floating Pixels Tutorial: Final Result 13. Here is the result that I got.


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