Gritty Kitteh Pic
I found this tutorial on youtube.com on how to create a “gritty, high-contrast” pic and thought I would give it a try. To fit in with the theme, I decided to go Neko with my newly discovered Magika neko set (which distracted me and my linden wallet for quite some time during Sabina’s recent hunt, and ty Sabina!).
1. Make Image Mode Changes
- Select Image > Mode > Greyscale (select discard color)
- Select Image > Mode > Index Color
- Select Image > Mode > Color Table (choose black body)
2. Make a new layer (oh blessed keystrokes, you don’t scare me)
- Select ctrl+a (this selects everything….yay marching ants)
- Select ctrl+c (this copies everything)
- Select F12 (this brings back the original image)
- Select ctrl+v (this pastes what you copied into a new layer)
Add Luminosity
- In the far right of the layer menu box thingy (I will learn proper terms eventually), you can exand the menu by clicking on the 3 lines on the side of the top of the bar
- Select Blending Options
- In the Blending Options drop down menu, select Luminosity
3. Add Noise
- Select Filter > Noise > Add Noise
- Select a percentage, in this pic I used 3%
Some other things to add…
1. Fixing Horizon (I remember this from class many moons ago)
- Select Analysis > Ruler Tool
- Draw a path along the horizon you want to match, in this pic it was the back wall
- Select Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary
- Crop as needed
2. Creating a border (another tutorialfrom Ryker Beck)
- Here I created another image and created the canvas to fit both pics and copied both pics as layers
- Fill the background, in this pic I used black
- In the background layer, select Blending Options and select Stroke
