I have a little experience in photoshop. This image is one of my favorite and most successful pieces and I used photoshop to create it, without using any filters, just modes. It was a collaboration project that my digital media class at Clemson did with UNC Charoltte. Everybody had to post three pictures creating an image library that anybody from either class could use. We worked on the project for a week and then we switched images with somebody from the other school for a week, then switched back to make the final edits. This wasn't my first experiences with Photoshop because I use the program a lot when creating imagery for silkscreen prints and ceramic decals, but this was my first successful digital image as a final product.
Other examples of Photoshop work:
During my class at Clemson we also learned Illustrator, but because I don't use it on a day to day basis like I do with Photoshop, I always feel a little lost when using the program. Even now, I'm having a problem saving my Illustrator file as a .jpg so I can post some examples on here. I understand the differences between Photoshop and Illustrator and I'm excited to learn more about Illustrator. The graphic style that it creates is something that I like and I've only dabbled in.
For this image series I want to work with some photos that I've taken of some of my students from the summer and some street photography that I did at a festival. I really like the energy and the emotion that I get from kids. I've started on an image in Photoshop and I've layered in some patterns.
This is not finished and still in progress. I've extended the original photograph by using the brush tool and the clone stamp. I added two different pattern layers and masked them out and lowered the opacity. The pattern images were taken from some silkscreen prints that I did last semester. With my second image I want to make some "cartoon" figures in Illustrator, like I have done above, of that will capture these happy faces and for the third image I want to combine work from both Photoshop and Illustrator.
I really enjoy looking at the images you’ve posted here. I like how you’ve mixed drawing and photographic images. It creates a really nice fancy world where anything might happen. I don’t know if you know Michel Gondry’s work but the images you posted really remind me of his work, and the mood he creates.
ReplyDeleteMichel Gondry Links: (Note he’s little odd?)
http://www.michelgondry.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327273/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfcw2yEsabk&feature=related
These are helpful! I'm impressed with yours up top and I'm wondering how you felt about the collaboration? Was it useful?
ReplyDeleteThe collaboration was really great! Honestly, I don't think I would have had such a successful image with out it. Its a lot like how sometime you don't see your typos when reading your own writing. When your working on a project, sometimes you (by you I mean me) get in a rutt and just finish it, to finish it. Even if your okay or "satisfied" with the outcome, there is always something else that could be done. With the collaboration, it gave the piece some fresh eyes, and when it got back to me, I saw it in a new light. The second time I worked on the project I was really about to bring the image to a end, with out question. The collaboration allowed the image to really become a final product instead of just a stopping point.
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