#roadattack

[joelekm]

I Survived a Horrific Highway Attack — My Story of Loss, Violence and Strength |Beyond The Sugarcoat

I watched an incredibly powerful video of Amna’s journey through a horrific highway attack. After losing her brother, she faced a violent assault that could have taken her life. Her story of survival, resilience, and strength is truly inspiring. A must-watch for anyone who needs a reminder of the power of never giving up.

[queenderien]

Okay I hope you don't mind me actually answering it in a post, but this is going to be kinda images heavy, so I prefer it that way. Before going any further though, I just want to say that this is my technique; I'm pretty sure a lot of people do picspam differently, but since you ask me... And my Photoshop is in French, watch out for the weird translation of certain terms (I'm sorry).

When we're feeling like it (because we don't want to do a picspam without inspiration now, do we?), we create a new file, the "basic shape" if you want. We can re-use this psd to make new picspam.

The document is 500x700 and is divided in 10 sections. To make sure everything is symetric, we put our ruler on and change the measuring unit to percentage (we can do it in editon > preference > units and rules). When it's done, we have a blank document that looks somewhat like this:

Because we don't like being lost when we work in Photoshop (don't deny it), we're going to add color to our lovely blank thing. We create a new layer, select one rectangle and put the color in it. Don't forget to ALWAYS CREATE A NEW LAYER WHEN YOU APPLY THE COLOR TO A BLANK SPACE. We have now a document filled with colors:

I also recommend that we put those new layers each in a different folder, because we're going to have a shitload of layers. When it's done, it's time to really start the work. We choose a picture we like/related to the current picspam and paste it just above your first layer. When we are satisfied with the position, we put it as a clipping mask.

The clipping mask, for those who don't know, enables you to work on a certain part of a document (i.e. layer) without touching anything else. It will only affect the layer you put it on.

To use the clipping mask, you can use the shorcut alt+ctrl+G, or you can go to layer > clipping mask. 

Without clipping mask:

With clipping mask:

Now that we understand clipping masks, we can use as many as we want to continue our picspam. I usually do my sharpening first, then add textures, gradient maps, anything I want to make it look pretty (looking pretty is kinda a good thing ya know what I mean).

And when we're satisfied with the first one, we jump to the second one, then the third, fourth, etc. We can also add other textures and color adjustments/gradient maps at the top of our folders. Don't forget that it will affect all the layers as well. One last thing, picspams need to be balanced and visually enjoyable. Not just a bunch of pictures put randomly.

That's it folks, I hope it was helpful. If you have questions, ask away, I always answer! 

[stoneharts]

please you can explain to me how picspams? :)

Ugh, I’m sorry, I suck at explaining nor do I have any patience for it. There are a bunch of tutorials out there on picspams now though, so I won’t try my hand at explaining when I know there are tutorials out there that have way better instructions and explanations. My apologies. Maybe try looking here? 

[sorrydearie]

please you can explain to me how picspams? :)

These are my favourite tutorials on it [1][2] which you should definetely take a look at if you want to get started on picspamming! :) If you’ve got any more questions / want to know something in particular feel free to stop by again :)