Dahlia

I a photoshop sort of mood so flicked through some magazines and had a go at merging textures and photos. All the files for the tutorial were on the CD but being me I couldn't be bothered to go upstairs and find it. So I used Photographs from the net instead and textures from media militia.

It wasn't particularly difficult nor did it take very long. I'm liking the result and already have Ideas of how I can use some of these techniques for other projects.

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Lights

This is a piece called "Lights";  named after and Ellie Goulding's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


This piece is a photoshop composition. I found the image of the hand using google and placed the orb, which I created from scratch. I then tinted the hand using a tinted layer.


I found it hard to place the orb in a believable position. I'd like to play around with this some more.


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19

This is a piece called "19";  named after and Adele's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


This album was difficult to come up with a concept for. After looking at numerological links and wikipedia results for the number "19", I was was still left unmotivated. What I opted for, in the end, was to simply present the number 19 in an unusual or interesting way.


In a magazine called creative photoshop I'd seen some impressive use of smoke brushes used to form a bird and an image of a lightbulb. This was something I wanted to have a go at; so I downloaded some royalty free smoke brushes and built up an image making the smoke form the number 19.


I'm really impressed with the way this turned out and  would quite like to attempt a  portrait made up of smoke at some point. This, I think, would give quite a ghostly effect.


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This is a piece called "The Defamation of Strickland Banks";  named after and inspired by Plan B's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


It was a difficult piece to come up with a concept for. I decided to play around with Photoshop and used synonyms for defamation to produce this portrait. The photo all this is layered on being of a man who looks to have lost everything. I enjoyed producing this piece and it was surprisingly easy (with the help of online tutorials (google text portraits).


I'm relatively new to photoshop and the program at times is a little overwhelming but its fun to have an actual purpose when using it like I did for this.