To create a levitation photo on Photoshop, you need a minimum of two photos. One background and one with the object you want levitating. Next, you need to crop the photo that will be levitating so you have just the object and not the background. You can do that using the eraser tool, masks or quick selection tool. When your done with that, you move the object to the background photo and place it there. Once it's there, you have to rotate it and move it around to make it look like it's levitating. After that, to make it look like the object is actually levitating and its not just two photos combined, you have to add effects to make it look more realistic. Filters you can play around with for more realistic features are opacity, blending, blur, brightness etc.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Tutorial for Levitation on Photoshop
Today I watched a video to show me how to make a levitation photo on Photoshop.
To create a levitation photo on Photoshop, you need a minimum of two photos. One background and one with the object you want levitating. Next, you need to crop the photo that will be levitating so you have just the object and not the background. You can do that using the eraser tool, masks or quick selection tool. When your done with that, you move the object to the background photo and place it there. Once it's there, you have to rotate it and move it around to make it look like it's levitating. After that, to make it look like the object is actually levitating and its not just two photos combined, you have to add effects to make it look more realistic. Filters you can play around with for more realistic features are opacity, blending, blur, brightness etc.
To create a levitation photo on Photoshop, you need a minimum of two photos. One background and one with the object you want levitating. Next, you need to crop the photo that will be levitating so you have just the object and not the background. You can do that using the eraser tool, masks or quick selection tool. When your done with that, you move the object to the background photo and place it there. Once it's there, you have to rotate it and move it around to make it look like it's levitating. After that, to make it look like the object is actually levitating and its not just two photos combined, you have to add effects to make it look more realistic. Filters you can play around with for more realistic features are opacity, blending, blur, brightness etc.
Monday, 8 February 2016
Pixel Portrait
PNG
GIF
This is my pixel portrait. For this project, we were assigned to take a photo of ourselves and remake it with pixels to make it look realistic to the original photo. Above, there is the PNG version and the GIF version. The PNG is lighter than GIF. The GIF is a little more darker in color. When enlarged, the original photo and the pixel remake because pixelated and you can see the details of the photo. When zoomed out, the pixels aren't as noticeable and everything blends in to make the photo look like one piece. Between both the original photo and the pixelated photo, the original is better in terms of line quality and color blending. In the pixel remake, I took the time to go over each area of the photo in detail but I focused on the mouth-chin area because it had a lot of features that make the photo complete. In the indent on by my smile, I added darker shades of brown to add the shadow effect to it. This was also done to the chin for the shadow effect as well. The shadow effect also is like the border between other facial parts that's why its very important to focus on it and make sure its good enough to show the difference and not make it look like one thing.
During the process of making this, I used different layers for each facial part. I used the sample too to make sure I had the same color as the original photo underneath the layers and pixel by pixel, I managed to get this as my final result. This was done on Photoshop with 100 x 150 white background and 72 pixels per inch. I started with a white background and began the process.
Thanks for reading! :)
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Chinese Brush Paintings
Chinese brush painting started in 4000 B.C and developed for 6000 years making it one of the oldest techniques for painting that still lives today. When using this technique, a very fine tip brush called "Chinese Brush" is used. The fine tip is used for the wide range of designs and the calligraphy in the painting. The brush techniques are based on the thickness and the texture of the stroke used mainly for tree and plant drawing. The brush strokes are said to give rhythm and beauty to give the painting more meaning. Types of brushes used in Chinese brush painting are Hsieh Chao Pi (Crab claw brush for small and large), Hua Jan Pi ( painting flowers brush) and Lan Yu Chu Pi (painting orchids and bamboo brush). Brushes used for writing are T'u hao pi (rabbits hair brush) and Hu Ying Pi (Human sheep's hair brush). The paintings are usually drawn o Chinese paper or silk. Composition and space in the painting is very important because the painting does not require reality or a strict point of view only creativity and imagination is required.
"Flower and Bird"
The "Flower and Bird" painting symbolizes the thoughts and feelings of humans as well as beauty through the birds and plants of nature. It includes a variety of different brush strokes and also includes calligraphy. Painting in this style requires a lot of thinking on where to put everything and composition and space play a big part in this painting. Based on how much ink you use, the painting will be either deep in color or translucent and light in color. The red seal and the calligraphy are there to express the theme and message of the painting and also completing it by capturing the beauty of the painting.
Thanks for reading my first year 2 post :)
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