Painting with light

[slartibartfast]

Literally.


4seconds @ f16

[Fusen]

looks awesome

[Little John]

Nice
so are you going to let us in to how you did that?

[~G~]

Slarti you never fail to amaze me with your photography...

K+

[Pongo]

Nice
so are you going to let us in to how you did that?

Can't argue with that !!

[Simate]

Very nice.
I'm guessing there's a light attached to the brush, slow camera exposure and walla?

[~G~]

Very nice.
I'm guessing there's a light attached to the brush, slow camera exposure and walla?

Glowstick maybe?

[Speshal]

Photoshopped - it's fake! Lol just joking, amazing skills buddy

[whatnow]

very nice, great colour too

[slartibartfast]

Thanks.

The colour was added later in PS. I did a rainbow version as well but opted for the simpler of the two.

Glowstick maybe?

Nothing so sophisticated. It was a little maglite with some foil wrapped round it so the opening was as wide as the brush, an idea I "borrowed" from someone else.



The paintbrush never actually moved. I held it stationary and used a remote release to fire the shutter while I waved the torch around a bit.

[whatnow]

sell it to blackpool - painting the town with rainbows baby.

no intention of belitting your work there, I just much prefer the turqiose.

nice technique too,

[[wingnut]]

As ever, some quality shots from you mate, I really like things like this..

[Simate]

Ooooh the colour one is awesome, wish I had the patience to spend more time on PS sigh.

[slartibartfast]

Changing the colour is very simple when you know how. Would you like a quick rundown ?

[big-paul]

Cracking shots m8 (as always!)

Changing the colour is very simple when you know how. Would you like a quick rundown ?

Go on, tell us how you did it...smoke and mirrors I bet! As a matter of interest, how long have you been using PS and have you done any courses etc or are you self taught?

BP

[slartibartfast]

I've been using it about 6 or 7 years now, I think I started on version 5. Initially, like most people I expect, I opened it up, couldn't get anywhere with it, closed it again and went back to something simpler. It wasn't until I bought my first book on it (I didn't realise there were online tutorials at the time) that I started to get somewhere with it. Since then I've just read lots more books and followed lots of online tutorials, never done any courses.

So anyway, here's my crappy tutorial.

Spoiler:

Open the original image in PS.


Create a new layer, Layer>New>Layer... or SHIFT+CTRL+N.

Select the Gradient tool.


Then open the gradient picker and select the Transparent Rainbow gradient.


In the new layer click and drag across to create your gradient.


It should now look something like this.


In the layers palette lower the opacity of the layer to around 60%.


Now for the magic bit, change the layer blending mode from normal to colour. Easy peasy.

[Mr Olympia]

I just followed your tutorial m8 and it came out spot on. I'll deffo use this technique m8, thanks for sharing.

Karma'd+.

[Simate]

Only just seen this tut, must be blind lol, I just had a go, the results can be very good with the right picture. Thanks Slarti +K

EDIT: No K this time, seems I've gotta spread some love lol

[Deadly]

Alot simpler than i imagined