Photographic based digital montage, 2007 (no 2 from series of 3 re-worked). Shot two seperate models & combined them. Draw in & enhanced part of the headpeice, body, dress, added fringe to face, made the features more angular, blew up lips, created cheekbones, reworked branches, filtered wallpaper effects, extended chandelier, added lacework/flower elements, desaturated & added a sepia tone. Approximately 50 Photoshop layers.
P/S Retouched by Ange in collaboration with Ingrid Sjodahl. Digital photograph shot by Greg Parsons in collaboration with Ingrid Sjodahl, 2007. Models: Liz, Greg Parsons. Retouched face, hair & recreated arched eyebrows for further definition – left eye was opened up to match right eye. Ingrid added b/w desaturated tone, painted lips, corset bodice lace & sheet in red tone. Original shot below.
From The Depth II
Image of my daughters eye within a sunflower. I love the strong colour and as a print (I have one) it’s very “Eye” catching…so to speak ;)
From the Depth
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Another blue composition, ink and acrylic on paper…
“Against the Wind” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A surreal depiction of birds flying into a gale force wind under a full moon partly covered by cloud. “When everything seems to be going against you, / remember that the airplane takes off against the / wind, not with it.” / ~ Henry Ford Against the Wind has been featured in the: Redbubble Homepage – September 08 Tree Group – July 08 Cards: Best of Your Best Group Shoot the Moon Group – February 09 Redbubble Homepage – June 09
(title of the image is taken from a song by Yann Tiersen, the notes show part of this song) / /
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Composite of two photos, plus treatment Top Ten (#5) in the challenge “La Luna” in the 1 In The Beginning – Ancient Practices group Featured in 1 In The Beginning – Ancient Practices Featured in the Patchwork Group Featured in Your Magic Place Group Featured in Witches, Wizards and Warlocks.Group Featured in The Scavenger Group April 2009 Winner of the Challenge Five More Themes, June 2009 / Featured in 4 Winners Only group June 2009 Avatar for the 4 Winners Only Group June 2009 Challenge Winner in All Original Fusion Group , August 2009 Avatar in All Original Fusion Group, August 2009 Featured in A Spiritual Walk Group, November 17th 2009
Popular Wall Art and Greeting Cards (30 day) 2009 03 11 2009 11 10 / Your image Where my way 2 has been nominated for the prestigous Pay it Forward Group by Natasha Harsh and this is what she said about your image - “It was very difficult to choose my #1 favorite of this artist’s work. Anatas goes beyond his superb technical skills creating masterful photo-paintings,each setting a mood and telling a story. In his hands graphic computer programs are truly equivalent if not surpassing traditional art supplies.” MY NEW POETRY BOOK – The Day Met Itself
All work in this portfolio is © Stephanie Rachel Seely. / These materials (images and poems) may NOT be edited, copied, reproduced, printed, distributed, displayed, performed, or used in any way, in whole or in part, without my written permission. Please respect copyright and do not save or upload any images or poems to Photobucket, Flickr, Myspace, Facebook etc. These creative materials are NOT public domain. This artwork was featured in Live, Love, Dream, The Love of Eerie and Enchanting Artwork, QUORN, Music-Inspired Art, Enchanting Powerful Photomanipulation, Outsiders, Dimensions, and Imaginative Realism Placed 2nd in the Masterpiece challenge (Fantasy Fine Art Composites) Won the Picture This Poem challenge – May 16, 2009 Inspired by another of my favourite songs, Feel You Like A River by ATB. I’ve been listening to this song on the way home from work these past few days, and decided to make an artwork to go with it. Info for Sold! group / Sold a small laminated print to a mystery buyer. Stock Credits / Model / Sky / Stock copyrights remain the property of their respective owners.
features 100% Cottage Style (Nov 4th, 2009) stock providers / house http://www.sxc.hu/profile/night_fate / sky http://night-fate-stock.deviantart.com/ / tree + tree trunk http://jlstock.deviantart.com/ / thanks to all for the wonderful stock ! / . / views 1313 | favorites 55 / . /
All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © Danilo Lejardi: using this image for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action. One of the main elements involved in the (African) Yoruba divination system is the divination tray. This tray (Ifá) serves as the template on which sacred signs related to the personal concerns of a diviner’s client are traced as the point of departure for analysis. / This time the idea was that of using this divination tray as a basic platform to display the main Orishas _ the African gods and goddesses_ and their peculiar attributes. / So this is basically a Cinema4D render, made in collaboration with artist Artpearl / She not only contributed by modeling the divination tray but with the whole conception of the series; the fact is that Artpearl has played a very important role in my CG learning process; her suggestions, constructive crits and incredible “eye” for details have always been a great support to every single step or direction I´ve decided to take in this field. More than that, alongside this journey we´ve become friends; and that´s one of the best things that could ever happened to me. / Photo/background/foreground images were blended with Photoshop; there´s also a bit of digital painting. / (CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application, produced by MAXON Computer, Germany.) / —-—-—-—-—-—-—— / Yemaja (Yemalla) is a mother goddess, originally of the Yoruba religion, who has become prominent in many Afro-American religions. / In (Cuban) Santeria, she is seen as the mother of all living things as well as the owner of all waters. / Her number is 7 (a tie into the 7 seas), her colors are blue and white (representing water). / She rules the sea, the Moon, dreams, deep secrets, ancient wisdom, ocean secrets, the collective unconscious, and the surface of the ocean, seas, and lakes. / In Africa she is known as Mama Watta, Mother of Waters. / There´s a lot of information regarding this african goddess in internet; here´s a link to Wikipedia: / Yemaya
This is the first photograph I have submitted to Red Bubble. It is one of my recent photo-manipulation projects involving a lot of photo tinting. It is also my profile icon for the time being. I hope you enjoy it. Featured in FIRST THINGS~with thanks!! Featured in 100%~~sincere appreciation!! Featured in Faux Vintage Fictionsthank you admin team!! Featured in Out of the Pastwith thanks!! Featured in Outsiderswith sincere thanks!! Featured in All In, “Editing”~thank you, thank you very much! Featured in Feminine Intentthanks for the appreciation of the feminine-ness in this!!! Featured in Core [C.O.R.E]~with gratitude to the hosts of this wonderful group. Featured in Freedom In Words and ART ~ thank you, dear Lina! Photo frames are available at RedBubble. /
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Inspired by the French book “Le Ballon Rouge”, as well as the film by the same name. Stock photo credit / Background
FEATURED IN PAWS ‘N’ CLAWS / FEATURED IN CATS & DOGS / FEATURED IN ANIMAL COMPOSITES & FINE ART / FEATURED IN POPULAR WORKS -RED BUBBLE HOME PAGE Composite of two photos, with textures and layers added in Photoshop CS4. / Uploaded for a challenge. /
The aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions on how to add clouds to an image which has an otherwise blan…
The aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions on how to add clouds to an image which has an otherwise blank sky, without the necessity of being a Photoshop guru to achieve it. Many stunning images on RB are in fact composites, with clouds being brought in from another image to add impact. (Sometimes you can’t easily tell!) It works very well and can transform an image. I have only uploaded to RB one artwork which is a composite of two shots, one being clouds: The original image of the building was clear sky – not a cloud in sight – and was thus a bit bland and boring and a perfect candidate for some cosmetic surgery. This tutorial was prompted by a request to explain how I did it. I still call myself “new to Photoshop” and I have found a lot of on-line Photoshop tutorials, including some others on RB, assume a much higher level of knowledge than I have and are not very intuitive. So, I try to explain the steps in easy to understand terms (hopefully!) and, importantly, describe what each step should look like after it’s done. So if you are not seeing the result of each step replicated on your screen, you know you have to stop and try again. If this happens, go to the top toolbar, select Edit then Undo [whatever it is you’ve just done] from the drop-down menu and try again. (Many many tutorials lose me when they fail to include this vital “check back”.) This tutorial is my longest one yet, given the patience I apply, but once you get the hang of the actions, you will find the process rather quick to do. If you have already read and followed my Orton Effect tutorial, you’ll know what I mean, hopefully, so don’t be put off by this one. I explain the steps based on using Photoshop Elements 7, but users of more advanced Photoshop programs will be able to follow the same steps. I also have Photoshop CS2 (v9.0), for example, and there’s only one slight difference from the PE 7 interface from what I can tell, which I will point out where it’s relevant. If you want to refer back to this tutorial at leisure, feel free to favourite it as I never delete them. And for this tutorial I really am going to make the effort to update it to include screen shots of EACH step. In writing this tutorial I just want to point out I have not read a single tutorial by someone else on this particular process, and the words are all mine. I wish to also acknowledge that Tatiana originally showed me this process. She’s so patient dealing with my impatience! Step One Clouds. You need some cloud photos. Beg, borrow or steal some, or better still, shoot some. I have a folder of nothing but cloud photos. Any day the sky puts on a show I will try and shoot the clouds, just to save them for later use. If you shoot some clouds in JPEG, make sure you shoot them in colour – you can always desaturate to B&W if the image you want to use them in is also in B&W, but if you shoot them in B&W in JPEG you won’t be able to convert to colour to match a colour image. Just another reason to shoot in RAW, really. For this tutorial, however, I am going to use a colour image needing a sky and a B&W sky shot. In theory, this will look weird, and it does, but I will also show you how you can then gradually desaturate the colour image after inserting the B&W sky and achieve quite a startling effect when you leave just a touch of colour. For best results, try to have nothing else in the frame of your cloud shot but sky. No trees or power lines! (If that’s not possible then crop the crap out. But note that creates a potential problem because now your cloud shot will be a different size than the image you want to drop the sky into. That can be fixed, but let’s just worry about equally-sized images for now.) Another advantage of having a “clean” cloud shot is that you can rotate it to horizontal or vertical, depending on the aspect of the image you want to use the sky in. Here’s a little cloud photo I prepared earlier: Step Two Your main image. The one without any clouds. The one you want to insert some action into, some drama. Try to select an image with a completely blank sky. It makes it so much easier for the Magic Wand (I’ll explain later) to figure out the portion of the sky you want to replace, ie all of it. Try to also select an image with straight lines, like a building or, even better, a straight uninterrupted horizon of a landscape or seascape. If you’ve got stuff popping up into the sky, like trees, the method I describe is just made soooo much harder and you may as well stop reading now and go watch TV or a movie. (At this point, the Photoshop gurus are shaking their heads and groaning, because THEY know another method to get around this when doing composites, but we’ll leave THEM on their lofty perches, ok?) Here’s a little image I prepared earlier. You may recognise the building: Cool. Now, let’s get starting on cooking our composite. I will refer to my two images in this tutorial as Clouds and Building, just for ease of reference. Step Three You’ve got Photoshop Elements (“PE”) open. Now select File from the top toolbar and select Open from the drop-down menu. Choose your Building shot and open it. Ok, now look across to the right of the screen. See the Layers palette? It should be showing a thumbnail of the Building image, together with the label Background. Now, once again, select File from the top toolbar and select Open from the drop-down menu. Choose your Cloud shot and open it. Look across to the Layers palette. You should now see a thumbnail of the Cloud image, together with the label Background. Now, left click and hold down the mouse on the Cloud image, and drag it to the side, just enough to show some of the sky of your Building shot. Release the mouse button. Move the mouse over to the Layers palette. Left click and hold over the thumbnail of the Cloud, and drag it over to the sky – anywhere in the sky. Release the mouse button. A copy of the Cloud image should now be “superimposed” over the Building image. Don’t worry if it doesn’t fit. Look over to the Layers palette. You should be seeing now two thumbnails – the top one called Layer 1 which is the “front” image, and the bottom thumbnail called Background, which is your Building image. Now, ignoring the Layers palette, left click on the Cloud image sitting behind the “superimposed” image. Close it. Step Four Look over to the Layers palette again. See that group of little icons just above the top thumbnail? Hover your mouse slowly over them and their functions should come up, eg the 3rd icon from the left looks like a trash can and when you hover the mouse over it a little word bar comes up saying Delete layer. Well we don’t want to do that. Instead, hover the mouse over the icon on the far left. It should say Create new layer. Just remember where that icon is for now. (If you are using Photoshop CS2 or CS3 or CS4, the group of icons is at the bottom of the Layers palette. Hover the mouse over the icons until you find the one that says Create new layer. Remember it.) Now, left click and hold down the mouse over the bottom thumbnail in the Layers palette – it’s the thumbnail of the Building that’s labelled Background – and drag it over to the Create new layer icon. Release the mouse. You should now see three thumbnails in the Layers palette, labelled, from top to bottom: Layer 1, Background copy, and Background. Step Five This is a slightly tricky step. Another click and drag, but best done smoothly and slowly. Left click and hold down the mouse over the Background copy thumbnail in the Layers palette and drag it to just over the top of the Layer 1 thumbnail. Release the mouse. All we are doing here is reversing the order of the top and middle thumbnails, so now your Layers palette should still show three thumbnails, but now in order from top to bottom: Background copy, Layer 1, and Background. Step Six Ok, now the meaty stuff starts. Look over to the left toolbar now (or palette, whatever you want to call it). Hover your mouse until you find the icon labelled Magic Wand. It looks like, um, a magic wand, but don’t confuse it with the Quick selection tool immediately below it. Click on the Magic Wand icon. Your mouse pointer should now have the distinct look of a, um, magic wand. Look up at the little toolbar immediately above the image (which, incidentally, should be of the Building). Make sure the box marked Contiguous is ticked. Now left click once on the sky in the Building image. You should now see marching ants completely around the sky and along the exterior part of the building which protrudes into the sky. (Believe it or not, the technical term for marching ants is …. marching ants.) Step Seven Look closely at the marching ants where they meet the edge of the building. Are there any gaps where you can see the sky? This is important, because if you don’t shift the path of the ants so that they align to the edge of the building, your new sky won’t cover that gap. Enlarge the image if you are not sure. If you see a gap, it is easily fixed. First, press and hold Shift on your keyboard. Second, left click once on the mouse on a gap. Let go the Shift key. You should immediately see those obedient mice form up against the building across the image. Cool, eh? Now, go to the top horizontal toolbar and select Edit. From the drop-down menu select Delete. This will delete your bland boring sky and replace it with your new dramatic sky !!! How cool is that?! Epic. Step Eight Now we have to send the mice home. Go again to the top toolbar and select Select. From the drop-down menu now select Deselect (ha! ha! I love a good alliteration!). Your marching ants should be no more, gone in fact. Does your image look something like this? How cool is that? Step Nine Nearly done! At this juncture, you have two options. You can finish now with the image you’ve got or you can adjust the look of the Building alone and/or the Clouds alone and then finalise the image. To finish now, right click and hold the mouse over the top thumbnail in the Layers palette. Select Flatten image from the drop-down menu. The thumbnails should have collapsed into one thumbnail, called Background. You can now save your image, you’re all done! To work further on the Building alone and/or the Clouds alone, simply left click once on either the Background copy thumbnail and/or the Layer 1 thumbnail and make your adjustments as you would normally do with an image, and then flatten your image and save it. Which is what I did with this image. I simply increased the contrast on the building and desaturated it to the level where there is just a hint of colour. To alter contrast, select Enhance from the top horizontal toolbar, then select Adjust Lighting from the drop-down menu, then select Brightness/Contrast from the second drop-down menu. A separate window will open and there is your contrast slider. To desaturate, select Enhance again from the top horizontal toolbar, then select Adjust Colour from the drop-down menu, then select Adjust Hue/Saturation from the second drop-down menu. A separate window will open and there is your saturation slider. So, how does it look? Epic or what?! Cheers and happy clouding !!!
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