{"id":3047,"date":"2014-04-23T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2014-09-18T18:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T22:17:23","slug":"another-gelli-art-print-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/another-gelli-art-print-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Gelli Art Print with Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello friends! I just designed a pile of stencils and stamps, and while I was waiting for the stencils to be made, I decided to cut a couple on my Black Cat Cougar cutting machine and test them out. I pulled out my trusty Gelli Arts Printing plate, and pulled some of the new Golden Inks that I had just ordered. I only had a few colors, and one of them was green which I usually am not a huge fan of. I didn’t even remember ordering that color, but it was only a small bottle so maybe I was trying to get myself to branch out?<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I had a pretty successful session, and came away with quite a few prints. I really liked the Golden inks. They are VERY<\/strong> fluid!! The way I liked them best was mixed with some of the normal Golden paints. Maybe 1-2 colors of paint and 1-2 colors of the ink seemed to be about the right mix. The prints with all inks are very juicy as you will see in one of the examples below.<\/p>\n

Here was one of the prints with mostly ink. You can see lines where the ink pooled around the stencil…<\/p>\n

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Gelli Art Photoshop First Print<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I then pulled a second print and liked the background a lot better, but the funky circles didn’t come out as detailed…<\/p>\n

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Gelli Art Photoshop Original<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I liked the circles in the first but the background in the second. Not to worry- I could combine them in Photoshop, but the selection might be a bit difficult. I tried a trick and it worked to give me some help to isolate the circles for the mask. First of course, I lined the two prints up on different layers in Photoshop. Then I chose the blend mode of exclusion on one of the layers. This made the background more of a consistent color so I could use the quick selection tool to more easily grab the background. Here is what it looked like in Photoshop:<\/p>\n

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Gelli Art Photoshop Exclusion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Once I made my selection, I changed the blend mode to multiply and hit the mask button on the bottom of the layers panel (it looks sort of like a camera- a rectangle with a circle in the middle). The mask was actually backwards from what I wanted, so I clicked on the mask in the layers panel and used Ctrl-I in order to invert the mask.<\/p>\n

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Gelli Art Print Spirals Final<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I played around with opacity and arrived at the final print…<\/p>\n

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Gelli Art Print Spirals Final<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final print has the best of both original prints- the background I liked from the second with the more detailed circles from the first! Give it a shot yourself!<\/p>\n

And now I really like that green color, so I am going to need to order a bigger bottle \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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