Sunday, March 27, 2011

"Bond...Jane Bond"

Another photo manipulation combining a number of elements to create a final image. It was accomplished by the extensive use of "masks" to blend the elements. This image was inspired by another artist.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Hexagon Bokeh Effect

This was a Photoshop exercise inspired by abduzeedo. It was created using a custom brush in the shape of a HEXAGON, but can be modified for nearly any shape. More interesting to me isn't the shape of the brush, but rather the lighting effects used. Those were achieved using a number of layer styles and blending modes.

Greg

Friday, March 11, 2011

Starting To Feel Like Spring !

This is a composite photo made from 2 different photos. The important part of this project was blending the model with the background. To accomplish this, several adjustment layers and masks were used to effect lighting and color balance. The photos I used were provided by faestock of deviantART.

Greg


This photo served as the background of the final picture.







This is the photo used for the model in the final composite picture. The key was to get her extracted from her background cleanly and without the kind of edges that would make her look pasted in front the background.

NEON Lighting Effect

Simple but interesting lighting effect accomplished in Photoshop.

Greg

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Despicable Me Minion

Just a little Photoshop fun. As it turns out, this little guy was one of the most difficult Photoshop projects I have yet to complete. It has over 70 layers and required many different layer styles and blending modes.

Greg

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Cosmic Goddess

The following piece of art was inspired by another artist. Since I hadn't been taking many photos lately, I was looking to do something that would allow me to "hone" my Photoshop skills as well as try a few new things.

Greg