Post by tonyw on May 1, 2021 16:34:15 GMT
A short while ago there was a post about the divide blend mode and how to simulate it in Photoshop Elements and it referenced a Comic Book Effect tutorial so I thought I'd give it a try. It turns out to be quite simple and, as written out below, works in all versions of Elements and Photoshop. As always feel free to add any other steps.
1) Open an image - anything works
2) Duplicate the background layer and Filter>Other>High Pass - the setting depends on the image size but aim for an outline - I found around 8 worked
3) Duplicate this layer and set the blend mode to Color Dodge (the original inverted this layer and used the Divide blend mode but this is equivalent and works in PSE as well as PS)
4) Add a levels adjustment layer and move the black slider up to around the start of the histogram and the grey slider a bit further up.
5) Duplicate the background image, move it to the top of the layer stack and set the blend mode to Hard Light.
6) Blur the top layer to create the desired effect - you can use Surface Blur as in the original tutorial or Gaussian Blur I found works just as well.
Here's what my layer stack looked like:
And here are a couple of before and afters:
Have fun - looking forward to seeing your Comic Books!
Tony
1) Open an image - anything works
2) Duplicate the background layer and Filter>Other>High Pass - the setting depends on the image size but aim for an outline - I found around 8 worked
3) Duplicate this layer and set the blend mode to Color Dodge (the original inverted this layer and used the Divide blend mode but this is equivalent and works in PSE as well as PS)
4) Add a levels adjustment layer and move the black slider up to around the start of the histogram and the grey slider a bit further up.
5) Duplicate the background image, move it to the top of the layer stack and set the blend mode to Hard Light.
6) Blur the top layer to create the desired effect - you can use Surface Blur as in the original tutorial or Gaussian Blur I found works just as well.
Here's what my layer stack looked like:
And here are a couple of before and afters:
Have fun - looking forward to seeing your Comic Books!
Tony
