Friday, November 13, 2009

Playing with Photoshop


One of my favorite late night activities is playing with Photoshop. I love to messaround with my photographs, some of my work, some images of nature (my favorite subject). These are photographs of an experiment with gelatin printing. I love the texture that can be achieved with this technique. For this piece, I used a hand cut stencil of a ancient Goddess figure. In Photoshop, I used the paint bucket to add color. Just click on the tool and a selection of colors pop up. Then click on the photo and the color drops in. In Adjustments, I changed the hue using the slider. This is always fun, almost like magic. For the last image I flipped the image horizontally, so the Goddess is facing left. To do this just go to image, rotate. There are many wonderful and cool things to do with your images in photoshop. Just be sure to make a copy of your photo before you play so you don't lose it and experiment, press buttons!
 

3 comments:

Leslie Avon Miller said...

How fabulous! I have a goal to learn more with photshop. And you have provide more inspiration to do so!

Marie Claire saint maux said...

Just the kick I needed to go ahead with photoshop.Thanks
http://marieclairartistafrican-art-quilt.blogspot.com

Norma Schlager said...

Great work with Photoshop! I, too, can spend way too much time playing with images.

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