Old Meets New

My History of Interiors class is responsible for my love of the furniture, motifs and patterns in this image.  

Extracting an object from the background of a photo is a well known action of Photoshop.  There are hundreds of ways to accomplish this, however it takes some practice and skill to make it look realistic.  I was recently practicing with a technique outlined in the October/November Photoshop User.  The end results where promising, so I decided to turn it into a bit more.  Filters where applied to a few of the objects, then arranged to my liking. 

The floral elements in the images are considered classic and keep reappearing in fashion, interiors & other assorted places over time.  

Halloween Bash

It seems like I excel at making invites, or at least I just enjoy making them.  The house image was created in Photoshop using sketching and desaturation.  Then pulling in a image of worn paper and playing with the opacity of the layers until I was satisfied.  The image was then placed in InDesign were I used LunacyMore and Grit Primer typefaces for the text and applied the gray background/border.  I should also mention that I chose this particular house image from istockphoto.com because of the Mansard Roof, a favorite of mine.  The finished invite size is 4"x6".  The invites were first printed on 8.5"x11" paper then torn down to size using a ruler as a guide, so the finished invite had a deckled edge.  

Playing with Shadows

Have you ever tried to take a picture directly into the sun?  It doesn't work well with your average amateur digital camera.  So instead, I turned around, noticed the cool shadows behind us and 'wow' we look really tall.  

I applied 3 filters to this photo, Film Grain, Poster Edges & Cutouts. I blended them together using the blending options under the Layer Styles Menu in Photoshop.  

Getty Shadows

I recently visited The Getty Center.  The architecture was fabulous.  Combined with the late afternoon sun, some great light vs. shadow pictures where taken.  I can't take credit for the original idea for this photo, but I did take this photo and then added a few layers (HDR Filter and a gaussian blur).  More pictures from this trip coming soon...

Pumpkins

My friend asked me to make an invite for her upcoming party.  I took this picture last fall with my old faithful Cannon Rebel G 35 mm SLR.  To make the words "Dinner in a Pumpkin" appear to be carved into the pumpkin, I simply added the bevel and emboss effects to the type layers.  The typeface used here is Grit Primer. 

 I simply love the vivid color contrast going on in this photo.  When my film was developed, I had it put on a CD.  The color seen here is the original, no hue/saturation has been added.  I knew this photo would came in handy later, glad I had a chance to use it.