Program Needed:
I am making this tutorial for Adobe Photoshop CS. It may work for PSP. You can download a trial
for photoshop here.
Steps:
1. Get a picture! It can be a blend or photograph, whatever you want. I'm using a blend
of Lindsay Lohan.
2. Click on the lines tool on the bottom right hand corner of the tool palette. (You may have
to change it from a shapes tool to a line tool. (See here.) Set the weight of the line at 2px. You don't have to, you can do whatever you want but I'm using 2px.
Change the color to black so it's easier to see the lines.
3. Draw lines every which way one the image. They can overlap more than once.
4. For more, to get this to work, I had to RASTERIZE each line layer and merge them together,
To rasterize, right click the layer in the layer viewer and click rasterize. Do this for each line.
5. Then again, go to the top layer (for me it's shape 6) and merge down all the lines/shapes together,
but make sure not to merge the image with them. Go to Layer; Merge Down.
6. Fill in the area between the lines now with colors. Try to alternate shades and colors and
not get too much of the same in one area. Click on the Paintbucket tool (towards the middle on the right hand side.
You may need to switch it from a gradient to the bucket.)
7. Now remove the black lines. They were only guides, we no longer need them. Choose the
Magic Wand Tool and switch it to the masking tool. (See here.) You also want the tolerance set at 100. Click on any of the black lines, they should all intersect somewhere,
and hit delete. (See here.)
8. Now that the black lines are gone, it's time to have your images shine. You have to clean
it up because the lines between the colors are too strong. Go to Filter; Blur; Gaussian Blur. Set the Radius to
25.0.
9. This is now up to you. Choose which Color Filter (see here) you want to use depending on the look your going for. I never have a set filter because I like to experiment and see
which looks best.
//TIP// I click on Normal and just scroll down through everyone of them just to see which looks best, but
that's up to.
10. Depending on the filter you used, you may need to use Gaussian Blur again on the color layer just
so they blend together properly.
11. You should now have a colored image that looks awesome.
Still confused? Does this tutorial not help? *Contact me* please and let me know.
