http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Surreal-Photo-Manipulation/67407
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/create-an-abstract-design-with-patterns-in-photoshop
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/create-a-vibrant-abstract-vector-design-illustrator
http://www.jkost.net/
Cassandra,
ReplyDeleteThose look like some interesting things to try. I am most interested in the last link of Julianne Kost's work. You are welcome to try any of these as projects. I think you will learn most from the first and last link. Let me know which you plan to try first and we can talk about a strategy of how to get them done.
I want to try Julianne Kost's work. It is out of the Portfolio What I Dream and it is number 10.
ReplyDeleteFirst off I will need a profile image of a girl, water, fence and a landscape. In order to only get the girls face in the picture I will need to cut it out using the magic wand in photoshop. It looks like the water and the landscape are the first layers that started off building the picture. The girl looks like she is layered in on top of the water and landscape and then the fence is the top layer. The picture does have some splotches of color layered on the final picture. In order to get the colors I will make a new layer and set the mode to screen and then select a brush tool to normal. I will paint the appropriate colors on the photograph and take the layer down to what looks like the right opacity. Last I will go to filters and put a Gaussian blur on the colored layer to make it blend. I am unfamiliar how I will select the fence and not select what is in the background of the fence. Also I am not sure how I will make the face fade into the landscape without taking down the opacity of the whole face. Another thing is how making the photograph not looking like I just copy and pasted it on top on one another. I am sure it is just some blend mode or a type of blur but I am not sure. It looks like there is a texture or something that I can’t quite pin down that is also built into the final picture. Should I make each separate photograph black and white or should I wait till the very end to do that?
ReplyDeleteI had commented before, but blogger looks like it had deleted earlier comments. Anyway...
ReplyDeleteThe first one in this series looks to be the most promising. I like your most recent post examples better though.