am giving a Photoshop workshop called “Make it Real: A West Coast Portrait” in December 2010. The goal is to provide some basic, and not so basic techniques for placing objects in a scene, so they look like they belong there. I have also incorporated pattern fills and some other effects to add a little fun, as long as being a Photoshop geek is your idea of fun.
You will start this project using a scanned image of a self portrait created in a previous project. The self project was shot in film and printed in the darkroom. You will also have collected 3 images: a shot of a book that means something to you, a photo of your phone/ipod/other personal comm device and a mug. These three images and the portrait will be loaded onto your laptop.
Have a look at the original image and the two drafts. A step by step instruction booklet will be available.
Techniques used:
text on a path
Adjustment layers: curves and black/white
Pattern fill, using more than one pattern, including existing pattern from image
Rasterize pattern fill
Use layers effects
Quick mask
Replace channel
use pen tool to create shapes
Use pen tool to create a shadow under an object
Create reflection
Use transform tools
etc.
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- Original
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- Presentation draft, colour
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- Presentation draft, black & white
