blending edges/ fixing color disparities

[Johannes Kochs]

hey everyone!

im designing a sketch for an album cover right now and I have trouble fixing the transitions around the background areas since i created the frame very poorly as i now noticed
Is there a way to make the transition from grey to white more seamless? i havent found a way to blend them over without destroying the sharpness of the textures :/

thanks in advance!

 

[Tom Mann]

Hi - Welcome to PSG. Glad to have you here.

Unfortunately, it's not clear to me exactly which areas you want to have smoother transitions. I think I know, but could you confirm it by either circling, or putting arrows to several examples of areas that need blending in that image.

Thanks,

Tom M

 

[Johannes Kochs]

Here, I made some markings around the edges
I´m talking about the entirety of the frame though

 

[Tom Mann]

Glad I asked. Those weren't the areas that I thought.

Just to confirm, I see an annular (more or less) white ring, and then many, (more or less) rectangular brush strokes come radially inwards towards it from the edge of the image. From the arrows you placed, it seems like you want the ends of the brush strokes to be more gradual where the ends of the brush strokes themselves are more or less circumferential, not radial.

Is that right?

Cheers,

Tom M

 

[Tom Mann]

If my previous supposition was correct, have you simply tried painting irregular radial gradients of gray in those areas on an otherwise white layer mask.

T

 

[Tom Mann]

PS - BTW, I have to run in a few minutes, but I'm sure someone else will pick up this discussion. I'll be back later tonight.

Tom

 

[IamSam]

Where these sketched on two different colors of papers?

 

[Johannes Kochs]

Actually these arent brush strokes, its a scan of a charcoal painting I did. Then, I added the outer frame by copying pieces of the inner ring.
The frame consists of copied parts that I took from the inner circle. the outer circle is supposed to be a kind of reprise of the inner one.

 

[Johannes Kochs]

Here,
the first pic is the original scan, then in the second pic I tried to add the frame but the unfortunate seams around the edges when going from the added parts to the original came up there.
I dont want to lose the sharpness of the original charcoal style but want blend them over somehow.

 

[IamSam]

For me, the problem is in the color variations.....



....which can only be fixed with the Brush Tool, and it's not a great solution.

 

[IamSam]

I created a circle of color that I sampled from the outside of the inner/original image.




I then set it's blending mode to darken.


This solved most of the problem areas except for the lower left corner.

 

[Johannes Kochs]

Wow, okay thats perfect. It´s exactly what I wanted to achieve. I think I can repair the lower left corner manually by just using the dodge and burn tool. Could you maybe send me your version in the orginial resolution? :lol:

 

[IamSam]

I made a selection of the corner.


And filled it with a sampled color from the corner.


I set the blending mode to darken and lowered the opacity to 68%.


I cleaned up the edges with a layer mask.....could have done better.....working fast.


Made a stamp visible layer and then desaturated.


The lower left corner could use some Brush Tool work but it looks better.

 

[Johannes Kochs]

It looks waaay better. The lower left corner still has some issues but I think I can brush those out, I found a brush preset that imitates the charcoal texture quite well.

 

[Johannes Kochs]

Can you send me the image with your changes? Or are you still working on it?

 

[IamSam]

So sorry.................I wasn't even paying attention!! I did not realize this was a free request!

Sure, this was as far as I went.

 

[Johannes Kochs]

Absolutely no problem man, you were super nice and helpful all the way. Thank you so much! :youtheman:

 

[Tom Mann]

Here's a crazy alternate approach to Sam's: Use either a B&W adjustment layer or a Hue/Sat adjustment layer to adjust the luminosity of the more pink areas to match the luminosity of the lesser pink areas, and then desaturate (and then possibly tint) the entire image.

Obviously some touchup work would have to be done on this approach, as well, particularly if you want some texture into the texture-less areas, but maybe it's less overall work. If you are interested, I can make screen grabs of my layer stack and the adjustments in the hue/sat layer.

Tom M