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Janee has a way of giving lots of very useful tips about little things in Photoshop along with the discipline of making images a certain file size and dimension!
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Week 4, Collages & Montages with Mandalas to begin! The Mandalas became addictive...trying each new time to see what could be created, and, over time beginning to know what part of a photo to choose in order to get (what seemed to me) an interesting Mandala. The collage and montage I chose to do are family related.
The Mandalas
The frog is just there for decoration. He was part of the lily pad scene from Blithewold Gardens and is prominent in the second mandala.
- I chose to do the reflective rotations because I like the symmetry! This is a water lily.
- The second used again the water lily with the frog.
- The third is a gazebo roof with overhanging trees. I liked the way the trees formed a lacy effect. I did duplicate and rotate and then use some blending modes for this one.
The Collage and Montage
One or the other was required but I wanted to try my hand at both.
- The Collage is for Lauren, one of my granddaughters, who is now 15! The other little girl in the photo is Amanda when she was just getting to know her new little sister! Here is a more recent photo of Lauren. I used the Automate, Crop and Straighten on the scanned images, 4 at a time, and it is wonderful. It took the 4 photos and separated them into 4 individual images, all set to use!
- I used photos that were of the same day of pictures and saved myself some time with matching colors.
- The background is a piece of gingham fabric which I scanned.
- Border made with a filled inverted selection with Satin Layer Style. and Drop Shadow.
- Each snapshot has a dropshadow applied and is stroked with pink sampled from the background.
- The flowers are from a photo from a couple of summers ago.
- I did add some noise to a filled layer and then used a blending mode to unify the collage.
The Montage is composed of a background image that is a stock photo from a CD Rom of images that I have. I have placed above it the photo of my great-grandmother, Sarah (Allen) Crooks/Kelly and also Sara Jane (Crooks)Mott, who was my great-grandfather's sister.
- I masked the images and then faded them and also used brushes in the masks of gray to soften hard edges. I also used gray to give some see through to the background where I wanted it.
- I placed images of clocks and used masks with gradients painted into them and then various blending modes.
- Some text was added and Layer Styles applied.
- Last, a layer was added above a merged visibles layer and noise and film grain applied in it ( with a fill also of white) and then the opacity was lowered.
- One more thing...a Layer Style, Stroke, was applied to give a framed, contained look.
A. What pixel dimensions do you want for your file?
I wanted my collage file to be 1500 by 1500.
C. 1. c. What happens to the image if you begin the gradient on the far left and drag it to the far right?
When I drag that way, the picture begins to fade from left to right.
What techniques did I use to unify the image?
You used similar colors, grayish images of objects that were about the topic.
5. In your Artist's Statement, tell what inspired your montage. What mood were you trying to elicit? What techniques did you use to tie your images to the theme and to each other?
My montage was a definite expression of the great interest that was aroused in me about my great-grandmother after doing the tinting of her photo. I found myself longing to know her and talk to her and felt that sadness that we were, of necessity (after all!), separated by time. I found the background picture with its end leading away and growing smaller and smaller suggested long times passing and, of course, the clocks, so good at measuring time. Perhaps the text in the image is trite, but it is what I am thinking.
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