My first step in creating this was to upload the original black and white half image. I doubled the width of the canvas by going to canvas size underneath the images menu. I set the width setting to 100 percent and clicked on the relative check box. I also selected the left edge of the arrow diagram so the canvas would widen to the right side only. I then selected the artwork with the rectangle marquee tool and created a clone by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt, that I then flipped horizontally. Next I lined it up with the original. To get rid of the white space so I could match up the lines of the two images I went to the edit menu and selected fade. I then selected the darken state under mode. This enabled me to see the lines on both artwork pieces and line them up accordingly. Next I loaded the channel as a selection by going to the channel menu and clicking on the ctrl key and clicking in the menu area below visible channel. That selected the background, in order to select the line art I selected inverse. Next I created a new layer by pressing ctrl+shift+n and named it line art. Next I pressed the D key to have black be the fill color. Next I pressed the Alt+Backspace to fill the selection with black on the new layer. After that I changed the background layer to just plain white by pressing ctrl+d to deselect the artwork and pressing alt+backspace to fill it with white. (First I made sure the fill color was white and not black.) Next I locked the transparency of the line art by going to the layers menu and selecting the tiny checkerboard icon found on the top right next to the lock symbol.
My next steps were to fill the artwork with color. First I went to the brush tool and selected a 44 size brush. I then opened the brush palette and gave it a scattering value and some texture. Next I chose a color and sprayed the line art in various sections. I repeated with a few other colors as well. After my line art was painted my next step was to fill the inside of the line art.
To start the process of filling the inside I created a new layer and called it colored fills. I then started filling various areas of the artwork with different colors. My opacity level was low on some of my fills resulting a more muted color. Others had the opacity on full.
After I had finished filling my artwork my final step was to give it a pseudo border by using my brush tool. I chose gray as my color and sprayed a border around the edge on my colored fills layer.
The image above is my original image. It is just a top view of a fake rose.
I created this image by first selecting the rose from the original picture by using the quick selection tool and refining my edges so it was slightly feathered. I then dragged it into a new document. Next I created a new layer to go behind the flower. I gave it a gradient layer of green and black. I then used the liquefy filter to blend my gradient into some swirls. Next I increased the saturation of my flower so it would appear more pink using the hue/saturation option in the photo adjustments. Next I used the Smart Sharpen filter to sharpen my flower image by making the amount 75% at ten pixels and using the Gaussian Blur. I then cropped my image to the what it is now and also rotated the flower. I did these steps to all three of my final pictures. After that I chose a different final filter for each image. For the above one I used the paint daubs filter. My goal in selecting the different filters was to accentuate the edges of the flowers in a slightly different way.
The final filter for this one was the Dark Strokes filter. This is my favorite image because I like the contrast of the dark edges. I think it looks really pretty!
The final filter for this one is the Accented Edges filter.
