Splat.

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Superimposing An Image On Paper

I had a few people ask me how I placed the image of Hannah on paper in a previous post, so I'm going to try to explain it very briefly. If I miss something, or if you want to know more you can email me or leave a comment.

I'm using Photoshop CS4 and a graphics tablet, but you can do the same thing with the last few versions of photoshop.

Final image preview.

This is a barely edited version of the original portrait.

This is my paper image. I took two normal pieces of paper ( I was out of card stock) and folded them over in different directions until I got the look I wanted, and then took a picture with them sitting on a flat piece of paper. Obviously I desaturated it at this point, but I haven't done much else to this image yet.

Here you can see it coming together a bit more. I have a high contrast version of Hannah over my paper, and I've given the paper a bit of a vignette, and decreased the contrast a little.

To get the photo to look somewhat flat and printed I decreased the layer opacity to 72%. Now to get the wrinkles of the paper to come thru and merge with my wrinkled backdrop, I set Hannah's layer blend mode to multiply. You can see the fold of the paper thru Hannah's layer now.

I selected the fold with a polygonal lasso, and created a layer mask. Then I selected a grungy brush, and masked around the edges of my portrait to give it an abused look, and blend it with the wrinkles of the paper.

To give it an old magazine look I used the halftone filter on Hannah's layer. I created a flat version of the entire image, and added some noise to blend it all together, along with a gradient map to ensure that there are no true blacks in my image. I also added a lighting effect to increase the directional light coming from the bottom left of the image.

This is a somewhat condensed description of how I merged these photos together, but I hope it'll be useful to all you photographers and graphic artists out there.

And once again feel free to contact me if you want to know more, or if there are any other images you'd like me to break down a little for you. If there's any interest, I'm more than happy to share what I've learned with all of you.

Thanks for reading!

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My New Scary Background...

I'm posting this background just in case anyone else shares my taste in color... Or colors...

If you want it in a higher quality or resolution ( Currently 1680X1050) send me an email!

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iTunes Style Portrait

I took this one when i was working on a new profile pic, and decided to have some fun with it.

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DH

I made this as a background for my ipod, and liked how it turned out.

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Digital Art

I haven't done anything like this in a while, but I thought it'd be fun to put up some of my older stuff that I still like.

Tools: Photoshop cs4, my Wacom tablet, and dads imac.

I think this image took over 30 hours, and it's totally created in photoshop. No imported brushes or stock photos.

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Some of My Favorite Self Created Wallpapers

It's not much, but I'll try to come up with more later. Feel free to inflate my ego by using them. And don't be shy just because you have a pc. They wish they were macs too.

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Two of My First Projects

OK. All of you who voted to see these had better leave comments now. After looking at these I'm not so sure I want to post them, but here you go.

The first one is a piece together of photos I found mostly on flickr. I think it took around 18 hours (Hey! It was my first project like this.). I think I did this one around a year and a half ago.

The second one is my first shirt design. Hannah wanted to buy an EMT shirt for a friend, and couldn't find one she liked, so she came to me for it. Don't look too closely. I think it was my first completely form scratch.

Oh, and for the one person out there who cares; the weather is currently 70 and partly cloudy. Ideal for a raspberry Italian soda with cream. And maybe a slice of lemon pound cake. But then of course it's almost lunch, so why not buy a sandwich and sit down for a minute? Unless you're at work, because if you are most of the things afore mentioned won't be easily available (like the extra minute). Of course you might have an office job, and if you do there could be a coffee shop across the street. Unless you're not in a coffee drinking part of town. If so I guess you're out of luck. But don't blame me when your lunch break is over because you spent it reading this paragraph that's only here because you wanted to know about the weather.

Have a great day!

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Inspirations of a doodle

Back in the days before I used photoshop I did some playing around with drawing musically themed doodles more than once, (mostly when I wasn't supposed to be drawing of course) and always loved doing it. Although I'm not very musically talented, it was one of the most enjoyable themes I ever played with; Trying to visualize an audible art form. I know, it's been done before, but now that I have the tools it's just that much more fun to play around with. Hope you like it!

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