Lesson 10 Surreal Image

I came across this photo of Philippe Starck holding up a mirror at:

http://www.fabrikmagazine.com/.

The shape of the mirror reminded me of the head in the painting "The Scream". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream)

What I did in the final product was use the pen tool to cut out the head from "The Scream" and place it in the mirror. Then I took Philippe Starck from the waist up and put him on top of the figure in the painting. He now is wearing a sweatshirt and his hands are open.

I found the pen tool quite precise and easy to use. Just had to cut out the places between the hands and shoulders with the magic wand to finish it.

Lesson 6 - Editing Tools

Here is the edited version of the Hannah photo. I didn't saturate as much as in the book because I thought it look too suntanned.



This is the photo I chose to use for the healing brush tool. It was torn then pieced together and scanned.




Here's the final version after extensive use of the healing brush and also the burn tool and clone stamp. It still could use a bit more work. I softened the crease on the right (his left side) to balance better with the opposite side which was somewhat lost in the healing process.

Midterm Montage of Claude Monet

Monet wrote of his growing frustration with his deteriorating vision, describing how he was forced to memorize where the colors were placed on his palate. In 1914 he wrote in his correspondence that colors no longer had the same intensity. “Reds had begun to look muddy,’’ he wrote. “My painting was getting more and more darkened.” He was forced to rely on the labels on the tubes of paint in place of his own vision.

The photo used is one I took on a trip to Giverny (Monet’s home in France) many years ago. The image was too bright and too yellow so I adjusted brightness and curves. Midtones were left unchanged while hue and saturation were increased.

I have always wanted to create an impressionist look from a photograph and came across the process to do this Photoshop here: http://www.bmcphotoart.com/impressionisttutorial.html Texture and color are emphasized at the expense of detail.

I then used a cooling filter to change pinks to violets. The photo was reversed to bring out the water lilies on the right and to set Monet’s portrait against the lavender background of foliage.

The quote by Monet uses the “Monet” font. The background is a hand sketch of water lilies by Monet.