Throughout my undergraduate career at the University of Tasmania I continually made whichever choices gave me the most opportunity to learn about genetics and molecular biology. (At around the same time I was reading Jurassic Park – before the film was made – and that just excited me about the potential of DNA even more!). Something in my head just clicked and I knew that’s what I wanted to do. I clearly remember the high school science unit when we learnt about Mendelian genetics and the basics of meiosis, mitosis and DNA replication. I started out in Neuroscience, did my PhD in Developmental Biology and am now doing a post-doc in Respiratory Medicine – but what all these areas have in common is Molecular Biology and that is my first and continuing fascination. My name is Jo-Maree Courtney – I’m never quite sure how to describe myself beyond “Scientist”. Today I thought I would tell you a bit about me, my career in science so far and the reasons why I started this blog. And if you are a current subscriber to Photoshop for Scientists, please consider subscribing to Come Science With Me.Ī little bit about me! Posted: J| Author: jomaree | Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments So please, if you have liked this blog in the past, come over and join us. I’ve been dabbling with the blog for a while and now I’m launching it with a full year’s plan of monthly focus areas (this month, November, we are all about graphic design). It aims to cover those skills that we all seem to need but never actually get taught. The goal of Come Science With Me is to “Help scientists do science”. So a little while ago I started a new blog called Come Science With Me. While I am still passionate about teaching scientists how to create fantastic images with Photoshop, I really wanted to broaden my scope to include other types of image manipulation software (such as ImageJ and GIMP) as well as other practical advice on making life in science easier. It has been quite some time since I updated this blog – partly because life just gets in the way but partly because I was finding the focus on Photoshop a bit too limiting. Posted: Novem| Author: jomaree | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on have moved…. Start experimenting with Photoshop today with tutorials and guides, and you’ll be creating interesting sketches in no time. On top of that, you always have the Undo button to remove any changes you dislike. Most of the tools used and described here are nondestructive, meaning they don’t change the actual data of the tiny picture elements (pixels) of your image. Part of the joy of design is experimentation. See if you can create the look of an oil painting or watercolor instead. Adjusting these elements can emulate a drawing with a blue pen, for example. Try adding an adjustment layer with a specific color or changing the blend mode to Color instead of Normal, and see how the drawing changes to look more like a colored-pencil sketch. You can adjust the blending mode of the layers in your drawing to add in or highlight a specific color. The more you do this, the more natural the artwork will look. Use any of the drawing tools available in Photoshop to draw additional lines and rough up the drawing a bit. One way to make a sketch drawing look more natural is to add in some linework or doodles yourself. Try these additional techniques to add more depth and texture to sketch conversions. There are many ways to build your next masterpiece. There are dozens of photo effects and photo editing tools available within Photoshop, so if converting to a sketch isn’t working quite right, don’t give up. Here you get less of a sketch effect and more precision. Pen-and-ink sketches are more precise - with sharp, defined lines, deep blacks, and plenty of negative space. Convert a photograph into a chalk- or charcoal-style drawing to streamline details from the original photograph and add style with heavy, abstract line work. Pencil gives the entire piece a rough look. Replicate the look of a pencil sketch by converting a photo into something that resembles the looseness and lightness of drawing with a pencil. Here are some of the most common options for creating photos in various sketch styles: Apps like Adobe Photoshop give you a variety of choices for building an interesting sketch out of a photo, so it can be difficult to choose the one you want. So you’ve decided you want to convert a photo into a sketch - the next step is deciding what kind of sketch you want to create.
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