Here are the techniques that I used for the manipulation of my images-
For the base for each image in my series, I copied the initial background image that I photographed. I duplicated the layer, and then I turned off the eye on the locked background layer. Then I used various selection tools to crop out a certain piece of the image. (I then realized on my last image that I should have been using a Mask instead so that I wasn’t erasing data from the image) but I used the polygonal lasso tool, and the magic wand selection and just the marquee shapes to select certain parts of the image. Once selected, you press backspace it deletes that part of the image. Then I placed text that I had scanned in previously, and cut certain pieces and layered them below my initial image layer. This way the text was showing through to the surface layer. Then I copied the background layer again and placed it above my text layers. Then I simply reduced the opacity on that copy layer, and then the text shows softly in that area, as well as having the original image there. I did this on all of the images because I wanted a cohesive look. I used various text that I had scans of, and then I used photographs that I took pictures of, and other media that I took pictures of that I layered on to my original photographs. Then I had to make a folder of all of the layers in each individual file, and then I had to merge that group so that I could make adjustments to the piece as a whole. I selected the entire image and then went to black and white in adjustments. Then I played around changing the different levels in black and white. This would sometimes give the image a filter-looking effect making it seem pixilated in certain darker or lighter areas. I like the effect I was getting, so I continued to do this for each image, and I occasionally had to go into a curves adjustment to further increase the contrast, etc. on some of the pieces. I then cropped some of the images using the crop tool.
Here are the techniques that I used for the manipulation of my images-
ReplyDeleteFor the base for each image in my series, I copied the initial background image that I photographed. I duplicated the layer, and then I turned off the eye on the locked background layer. Then I used various selection tools to crop out a certain piece of the image. (I then realized on my last image that I should have been using a Mask instead so that I wasn’t erasing data from the image) but I used the polygonal lasso tool, and the magic wand selection and just the marquee shapes to select certain parts of the image. Once selected, you press backspace it deletes that part of the image. Then I placed text that I had scanned in previously, and cut certain pieces and layered them below my initial image layer. This way the text was showing through to the surface layer. Then I copied the background layer again and placed it above my text layers. Then I simply reduced the opacity on that copy layer, and then the text shows softly in that area, as well as having the original image there. I did this on all of the images because I wanted a cohesive look. I used various text that I had scans of, and then I used photographs that I took pictures of, and other media that I took pictures of that I layered on to my original photographs. Then I had to make a folder of all of the layers in each individual file, and then I had to merge that group so that I could make adjustments to the piece as a whole. I selected the entire image and then went to black and white in adjustments. Then I played around changing the different levels in black and white. This would sometimes give the image a filter-looking effect making it seem pixilated in certain darker or lighter areas. I like the effect I was getting, so I continued to do this for each image, and I occasionally had to go into a curves adjustment to further increase the contrast, etc. on some of the pieces. I then cropped some of the images using the crop tool.