AFTER Blending ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog One of my favorite ways to create is to do so using many different bits and pieces of photographs to offer a visual image as a new derivative work. Of course to do this, you must become a ‘master’ at removing the background from an element. Though there are many tricks and ways to do this, the bottom line is unless the image you are ‘cutting out’ has crisp lines and a solid background in a color not in the section you wish to cutout … Read Full Article & Get Tutorials
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Card by Stephanie Laird© Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Once again I was inspired this week after viewing an amazing ‘exhibit’ of true Digital Manipulation art, one of our newest recognized art forms. While viewing these amazing creations I was reminded of the tremendous talent it takes to create this type of imagery. I’m not referring to the type where a factory made digital filter has been applied and now it’s called a watercolor, I’m referring to those talented digital artists who blend bits and pieces of many different photographs to create imagery only found in their imagination ... Read Full Article & Get Links Courtesy of the Yale Library Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Removing an element from the background; no matter what you call it, can be done in a variety of ways; but ALL of them are time-consuming and take a tremendous amount of practice to get professional results. This will be short and sweet since there is not a lot to say about this other than IF you are going to attempt this in your digital creations, then you MUST look out for the ‘artifacts’ which can be left behind when performing background removal leaving you with unprofessional results ... Read Full Article & Get Links Photoshop Cat Princess Tutorial I'd love to find the time to attempt something this involved, because the result is just FANTASTIC! It certainly inspired me with ideas and possibilities! This is brought to us from PSD Dude...ENJOY! View Tutorial Photo Courtesy of Noupe.com Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog There is nothing more fascinating to me than photo manipulation art that completely defies my sense of reality! Though I do a fair amount of this type of work myself and I even have a pretty good imagination, somehow I never seem to take the time to explore the realm of the impossible. Trained photographers are often buried so deep in applying technique to the visual wonders we see through the lens, that we don’t take the time to step out of the box and take an adventure into the world of pure nonsense. Perhaps this exhibit will inspire you to shock your own senses and create something from your photographs that defies your own reality! Read Article and Get Links to Tutorials Image Courtesy of Wegraphics.net Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog I love fantasy and sci-fi and I’m always fascinated by the creation process of this type of art. For those of us who are photographers, we can’t photograph what doesn’t exist which is probably what draws me this style of creation. In today’s digital world full of powerful tools, photographers can create ‘something out of this world’ using our own photographs; just like the painter puts imagination to canvas ... Read Full Article Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation This wonderful tutorial will get your creativity flowing while you learn some techniques in photo manipulation. Wonderful creations are just waiting for your imagination! This tutorial by Oliver Cereto Comes to us from Noupe. LEARN . CREATE . INSPIRE! Photoshop Blending One of Photoshop's finest treats for artists and photographers. In this tutorial brought to us by PhotoShopTutorials and Jarka Hrnčárková, you will learn how to blend using brush and mask tools, channels and blending modes. As with everything in Photoshop, combining tools is the best way to create magic! TUTORIAL SUNDAY: Photoshop Blending This week's tutorial comes to us from Cosmosue at deviantART. She offers this great 45-page tutorial on How to blend characters into pre-made backgrounds and fix renders, add effects, add grass & hair... She will help you enhance your works & expand your knowledge of both Poser & Photoshop! This tutorial is not free, but well worth the small fee! View the Tutorial |
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