As the saying goes, you walk a mile step by step. I’ve always wanted to play the piano, but haven’t had the patients to play daily to get better. Maybe, if I started ten years ago I would know how to play chopsticks by now. The same goes for Photoshop. It’s a pretty daunting program, but if you don’t start sometime, you aren’t going to wake up one day and magically be a digital artist wizard.
With that in mind, I stayed home Friday night and researched a few things that drive me nuts in Photoshop. That is basically how to cut an object out within an image and paste it onto another image. People call this photo manipulation or at least, that’s what I call it. So, thanks to a kind soul on YouTube, I was able to learn the wonders of the background-eraser tool. For some reason, I turned the photo black & white on Friday. That is the second photo listed. Saturday, inbetween watching college football, I did a color version. All in all, I probably spent about eight hours trying to figure things out, but now I have a new skill and hopefully I will improve over time.
The girl in the dress is my friend Amaris and we took some photos inside a wedding boutique in Chinatown called Ivy Bridal on 117th N 10th St in Philadelphia. The has a hand painted muslin, but it was of some pink stairs. So, I turned it backwards and shot on the plain gray side. I also purposely shot the image about a full stop darker knowing I was going to try and cut the image out. I really loved the dress and I think it was only $600 in the store. The images of the grass and bird are from sxc.hu and I applied my custom coloring to the photo. I think that’s about it. Enjoy.
