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Want to "frost" a picture the way you can on picmonkey using PE9

May 28, 2012 3:50 PM

As mentioned above, on Picmonkey (free online software just for playing around) you can "frost" a photo which I personally like the effect but need to know how to do this in PSE9.  PicMonkey is just for playing around as I can upload a 10mb photo and am lucky if it saves as 2mb.  I want to learn how to do this in PSE9 so that my 10mb files are still about 10mb files so that I can blow up to poster size.  I have searched the net via "googling" and can not find a thing.  If you have any idea how to do this, please let me know.  Would be very grateful!

If you are not sure what I am on about, go to www.picmonkey.com and just hit edit a photo...you do not have to have acct. or give any info, just upload any photo you want and under edits there is one called "frost" and that is what I need PSE9 to do

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  • photodrawken
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    1. photodrawken,
    May 28, 2012 4:09 PM   in reply to christinabethlehem
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    Please post an example.

     

    Ken

     
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    May 28, 2012 4:23 PM   in reply to christinabethlehem
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    DSC_7257c.jpg

    This is just a regular "frost" you can make it bigger and darker; just love the effect though for some reason...

     
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    May 28, 2012 8:17 PM   in reply to christinabethlehem
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    Hi Christina,

     

    Thanks for the example.  It's very straightforward to do in PSE, and you have a lot of control over how the effect is created at each stage of the procedure.

     

    Here's the original:

    eagle frost original.png

     

    1. Duplicate your background layer, and work on that duplicated layer.
    2. Enhance...Convert to Black and White.  (I used the default settings for "Scenic Landscape"):
    3. Add a Photo Filter adjustment layer with these settings to get a sepia-toned image:
      eagle frost sepia filter.png
    4. Add a new, empty layer above the photo filter layer.
    5. Make a selection of your choice.  (I used the Elliptical Marquee, but your example looks like a Rectangular Marquee was used.)  Use Select...Transform Selection to fine-tune the size, etc.:
      eagle frost selection.png
    6. Use Select...Feather, and give it a lot -- I used 150pixels.
    7. Select...Inverse.
    8. With that top, empty layer selected, use the Fill Tool with white as the Foreground colour and an Opacity setting of 67% to fill in your "frost".

     

    The layers look like this:

    eagle frost layers.png

     

    The final result:

    eagle frost final.png

     

    Ken

     
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    4. christinabethlehem,
    May 28, 2012 8:19 PM   in reply to photodrawken
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    Thank you!!!  Now I can get the same look while maintaing hi-res images for larger size print jobs!

    As always, you have my answers

     

    Can't wait to try this later tonight after the little man goes to bed

     

    Christina

     
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    May 28, 2012 8:22 PM   in reply to christinabethlehem
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    Hi Christina,

     

    You're welcome!

     

    Now that I look at my result again, I realize that that initial selection needs to be quite large.  I think my ellipse was too small.

     

    Ken

     
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    6. christinabethlehem,
    May 28, 2012 9:30 PM   in reply to photodrawken
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    DSC_7433b.jpg

    I guess with the the selection size depends on what my main part of the image is....this is the one that I just did with your handy dandy instructions while the wee one was having a bath!  And now I can actually do these for customers as the file size remains in tact unlike that silly monkey I have played with

     
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    May 28, 2012 11:29 PM   in reply to christinabethlehem
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    By George, I think she's got it!

     

    Ken

     
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