ooooh im jealous of that color! i actually saw a model bedroom from Cosmo girl and the wall paint color is almost the same one as yours. their theme is hibiscus/surfer girl, I'm a sucker for anything Roxy so I might try doing that.....once I get my bachelorette pad.
ahem... keep looking through the photos - the third one in the series is the actual wall color, AND it explains where the bed cover and pillow shams, etc came from.
i actually made the turqoise wall in photoshop because someone suggested it :D
now, you can't see the sheets very well, but they're actually orange and yellow PAISELY sheets and pillow cases i got on clearance at *cough* walmart *cough* for about $20, except for the burgundy 600 thread count pillowcases which i got at a wamsutta sheet outlet store for maybe $20 or $30 for the set.
oh wow! you were so much braver than i was -i was trying out more sheer colors, and wasn't being happy with any of them. yours are so much better! i had thought of doing the carpet too, but then figured my husband would REALLY never go for a colored carpet.
and, hey, how did you change the colors? i have the feeling you did it much more efficiently than i did - i selected all the wall parts (which grabbed the oh too similar lamp shades), feathered by 7 pixels, then used the pain bucket to drop the new color in (with "variance" or some word like that set at 100). it colored 100% of everything with the turquoise, but all the other colors colored only one section of the wall at a time, then, often when i dropped the color on another section, it laid down a second coat of color on some already painted areas, thus making the wall all blotchy.
i KNEW there must be a better way! i fiddled with some other features in photoshop, but never found how to work anything else :(
i tend to go absolutely crazy with colors, especially when it comes to interior design. i just love bright funkay colors, but i know they're hard to pull off. photoshop makes experimenting much easier, haha.
i went ahead and did the carpet, but i was pretty skeptical too. i know floor to floor carpeting isn't cheap!
honestly, i'm not sure how much easier my technique is, and you can tell i made a few mistakes, haha. but i'll describe my process, and in case i don't make any sense, i can make a graphical tutorial for you :)
okay, so first i created a new layer, and paint bucketed the whole thing a pink shade (that's the first image). then i applied the layer style, multiply to it (from the drop down menu is the layer window). this color then "bleeds through
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yes it is. that bedroom definitely needs some color on the walls other than blah white. my husband has always said germans are afraid of color (i think they're less afraid now than they were 20 years ago when i first complained about all the white walls and palest pastel houses). now i think he's become one of them. so getting any color anywhere is always a battle with him. :/
Wow, your bedding colours are amazing!!! (the pink and orange together are two of my fave combinations!) But the first time I looked at the headboard, I thought, "why's she got three bowler hats there?"
I see this is an experiment in photoshopping wall and carpet colours... I used to do this for dolls house models. ;)
ooh... is there an easy way to photoshop the colors? i don't know if you looked at the other color combos cyanidechild came up with, but she told me her method, but she thinks there might be a less complicated way.
There is an easier way, but I would need to have photoshop in front of me to be able to explain it. I'm hoping soon to get a new copy (old one won't work with my current operating system) so when I do - and when I've got used to using it - I'll have a bash at explaining it to you.
(Basically just means masking out the colours you're not changing, making one separate layer for each colour you are changing and using the colour change and brightness/contrast controls on the ones you are).
layers are the bane of my existance. well, my digital photo editing existance... i know i sometimes automatically work in layers, because i eventually have to merge them down, but it's only accidental - i just have a really hard time understanding the concept, and have never created layers deliberately. :/
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i actually made the turqoise wall in photoshop because someone suggested it :D
now, you can't see the sheets very well, but they're actually orange and yellow PAISELY sheets and pillow cases i got on clearance at *cough* walmart *cough* for about $20, except for the burgundy 600 thread count pillowcases which i got at a wamsutta sheet outlet store for maybe $20 or $30 for the set.
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(augh, my mouse is wonky, so i couldn't quite clean up the colors as i'd like...but you get the general picture)
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and, hey, how did you change the colors? i have the feeling you did it much more efficiently than i did - i selected all the wall parts (which grabbed the oh too similar lamp shades), feathered by 7 pixels, then used the pain bucket to drop the new color in (with "variance" or some word like that set at 100). it colored 100% of everything with the turquoise, but all the other colors colored only one section of the wall at a time, then, often when i dropped the color on another section, it laid down a second coat of color on some already painted areas, thus making the wall all blotchy.
i KNEW there must be a better way! i fiddled with some other features in photoshop, but never found how to work anything else :(
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i went ahead and did the carpet, but i was pretty skeptical too. i know floor to floor carpeting isn't cheap!
honestly, i'm not sure how much easier my technique is, and you can tell i made a few mistakes, haha. but i'll describe my process, and in case i don't make any sense, i can make a graphical tutorial for you :)
okay, so first i created a new layer, and paint bucketed the whole thing a pink shade (that's the first image). then i applied the layer style, multiply to it (from the drop down menu is the layer window). this color then "bleeds through ( ... )
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I see this is an experiment in photoshopping wall and carpet colours... I used to do this for dolls house models.
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(Basically just means masking out the colours you're not changing, making one separate layer for each colour you are changing and using the colour change and brightness/contrast controls on the ones you are).
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