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1. The Photograph: In order to achieve a nice picture is better to start from a great photography, this photo was taken by a professional Photographer: Emilio Guerrero  2. Open your Image with Gertrudis Pro:  You can learn more about this software at:
3. Apply coarse strokes along the image: In this case I selected the style named "Watercolor-Large Size", and applied it along the whole image using the Autosketch Tool. Don’t Panic!, this is not the final result.  4. Refine the size of the strokes: and apply the Autosketch Tool only in the areas where more details is needed.  5. Refine even more the size of the strokes: and apply the Autosketch Tool in the eyes, mouth and fingers.   6. Copy the result to the Clipboard: Now we are going to switch to Photoshop, but before doing this, copy the resultant image to the clipboard. (Ctrl-C) 7. Now Switch to Photoshop: Create a new RGB image: File | New. You should notice that Photoshop suggest in the image size the same size of the contents of the clipboard. Once created the image, press Ctrl-V in order to paste the contents of the clipboard. 8. Create a Brightness and Contrast adjustment layer:  Use the following settings:
 9. Create a Hue and Saturation adjustment layer: Before doing this, select the background. There is no need to make a very accurate selection, you can use for example the lasso tool, then enter in the quick mask mode (just press “Q”), and make a gaussian blur to the selection mask. Exit from the quick mask mode “Q”. Now you are ready to create the adjustment layer.  The Layers Window should be seen like that:  Final image:  Final image details:  |
February 9, 2006
Combine Photoshop and Gertrudis Pro to Create a Masterpiece
February 8, 2006
New Version of Gertrudis Pro
Gertrudis Pro 2.2
Please check out the following link: Gertrudis Versions
February 1, 2006
Use Photoshop to superimpose borders
To show details in Gertrudis you have two ways:
1. Use small size brushes in the details
2. You can use another image editing tool, in this case, photoshop to superimpose borders and details.
This tutorial will show you the second technique. However at the end of this tutorial you can see the result using the first technique.
Original Image
Final Image with borders: Gertrudis Pro + Photoshop
1. Open the original photo in Gertrudis Pro
Quickly apply the strokes along the whole image using the autosketch tool. Using very large strokes, in this case we selected Oil-Large size
2. Select in Gertrudis Pro Oil-Medium size, and apply the autosketch tools only in the borders and others areas of interest like eyes.
3. Copy the resultant image to the clipboard (ctrl-c)
4. Paste it on Adobe Photoshop (File | New | Ctrl-V)
5. Open the original photo in Photoshop
6. Let’s remove the noise using the median filter (in a 1600×1200 pixels we selected: Radius=16)
7. Now we are ready extract the most important borders from the image: Go to Filter | Stylize | Find Edges
8. Select all, copy to the clipboard (ctrl-c) and paste the borders as a new layer over the “Gertrudized Image”
9. Select this layer and change the blend mode to “Multiply”
10. The final image is almost done. Is up to you if you want to make some more “postprocessing operations”, in this case we applied some lighting effects and give more saturation to the blood. Go to the beginning of the tutorial to see the final result. Also you can see below how Gertrudis Pro could be used stand alone and show details of the image.
Image with details: 100% Gertrudis Pro (without Photoshop)
