Thursday, 20 October 2016

Photoshop

Process and Production : Photoshop

Today was about developing Photoshop skills and learning how to mask and overlay images to create different montages. I took an image taken in the first week (portrait of me) and used photoshop to make it appear on another background. I took the image (JPG File) and opened it into Photoshop. I created a duplicate layer of this so that it is easier to cut out the image and mask. I used chroma key to cut myself out from the background (green screen) and added a solid block colour to the background as a temporary. Choosing from a variety of background pictures I decided to keep within the theme of warm browns and cream colours so that the image would look more realistic by playing with the hue and saturation and levels of both the image and background. 
I really enjoy working on Photoshop and developing skills, I will continue this practice in my own time and whenever necessary so that I become quicker and create better looking pieces of work. 

 
A screen grab of the layers used in Photoshop to create the image below.