Creative Effects Challenge No. 220 - Adamski Effect
Feb 3, 2024 6:28:52 GMT
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Post by Tpgettys on Feb 3, 2024 6:28:52 GMT
A recent thread on Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) caught my attention and I found it quite interesting. This Creative Effects Challenge invites you to explore one way to simulate ICM, known as the Adamski Effect.
Here is a video tutorial on the Adamski Effect (FYI: the second half of the video, at 8:30, is simply the creator showing additional results and discussing alternative ideas)
Here are the steps I extracted from the video, along with their time-stamps:
- Choose an image with an identifiable subject that appears in its entirety, with a background that is not too bland (1:00)
- Duplicate the image (Ctrl+J) (2:15)
- Select the subject (this is almost the entirety of the work to be done!) (2:30)
- Later versions of PSE have a Select Subject feature (Alt+Ctrl+S)
- You can also use the Quick Selection Tools (A) and/or the Lasso Tools (L) to do this step
- Later versions of PSE have a Select Subject feature (Alt+Ctrl+S)
- Zoom in and correct any errors in your selection to make it as accurate as possible (see 2:40-5:00 in the video for tips and techniques)
- Once you are satisfied with the selection, copy it onto a new layer (Ctrl+J) (5:05)
- Expand the subject (6:00)
- Select the subject by Ctrl+click the subject layer
- Click the copy of the original image layer
- Click Select | Modify | Expand... and set Expand by: to 10
- Click OK
- Select the subject by Ctrl+click the subject layer
- We now are going to remove the subject from background layer (6:40)
- Control-click the subject layer to select the subject
- Select the background layer
- Click Edit | Fill Selection... and set Use: to Content-Aware (use the Clone Stamp tool if your version does not have this)
- Control-click the subject layer to select the subject
- All that is left is to blur the background layer: Filter | Blur | Motion Blur... (I used 300 px at -45 degrees, but use what looks interesting to you) (8:00)
There you go! Pretty easy actually; basically just select your subject and blur the background. You can view the video from 8:30 on for ideas of extensions to this technique.
Here is my example using the Adamski Effect:
| Adamski Effect - Slippery Slope! | Original from Pixabay |
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I look forward to seeing where you take this!
