Mid Term

The mid term is a collage made up of several different images. It has many layers and different blending modes. There is also a lot of transparency in this projcet. The theme is Bob Marley and the elements used represent my view of him and Rastafarianism. I won't go into too much detail here. Instead, I'll let you figure out how everything was done...

Lesson 7 - Typography

The background picture was taken on a beach in Half Moon Bay. The lyrics are from The Pharmacists song "Biomusicology." I felt that the text and the picture go well together in terms of style and message. The typeface is Papyrus and there are actually two layers of it. The top layer has a dropshadow to make it pop a little more and a slightly lower opacity. The second layer is done in screen mode to add a slight pattern. The background image has only had level adjustments before a gentle gaussian blur was applied to it.

Lesson 5 - Masks

This is an image I created using Photoshop's masks. I followed the tutorials (mask video: part 1, mask video: part 2, mask video: part 3), but found them to be of little help in this case. Since then I have found a new technique for masking hair, or very fine detail out (Selecting & Extracting Hair), the catch is you need to have a white background. I guess you could say that I chose a poor image to start with, but I wanted to challenge myself.

The mask: