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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Digital Collage

I made the mistake of working too much online and HughesNet cut me off. When that happens, my connection is less than dialup, so I had time to play a bit with Photoshop. Tomorrow I am supposed to receive my MyFi USB card from Verizon and am hoping I will get a better speed. I will definitely get a better price.

I haven't made a digital collage in a long time and really had fun with this one. I began with the pictures below:

I shot this this morning in the yard.

 
 I also shot this one this morning in the yard.

  
 I scanned this one. It is by Graphic 45.

 
This is a stamp I used at Scrapbook 101 yesterday.

I sharpened and increased the saturation of the first poppy picture. I cut out (selected) the second poppy and added it on its own layer. I made a custom brush out of the music sheet and put it on a separate layer so that I could adjust the opacity. And lastly I selected the circular stamp and added it on its own layer and adjusted its opacity. I'm not sure I was done, but as often happens when I have had Photoshop open all day, I got an error message and it refused to save it for me. I used the Grab utility to take a picture of it, but I lost all my layers. Here is the flattened collage.

 
I hope you like it. I stayed up into the wee hours because HughesNet treats 2 AM to 7 AM as free time so I have a bit of speed back. 

I am so hooked on Photoshop and there is so much I want to do. I am thinking I may start making some kind of hybrid art with digital elements and then some physical layers as well. We'll see.....
Bye for now!

10 comments:

  1. I LOVE poppies and think what you have created with your different elements is fabulous.
    I still have to play with photoshop and so wish I had the time - but keep up the good work this is wonderful x

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  2. I love the layering of the different elements. I've been doing a few Photoshop collages lately, too. We just started a digital group at our ning group. If you think you might be interested in joining, take a look. www.onthewing.ning.com xo-teri (from art techniques)

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  3. Love how you showed the different elements, explained what you did and then showed the results. You sure make it sound simple!

    Great work!

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  4. Vickie..Loved your Poppies! Don't you just love "brushes"? I just barely learned how to do brushes in a course that I took from Gail Schmidt this year and can't get enough of using them.
    Love and Laughter,
    Gale

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  5. I love it Vicki! I would buy that paper! It's a very cool combo of each of those elements together. Great work!

    ~Nina in San Diego~

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  6. Vicki, i thought digital art was a cop out, but you have changed my mind.
    i just may have to get photo shop and try it
    thanks,sherrie

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  7. This digital collage is fabulous! Great job of combining elements.

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  8. Well done! This is beautiful work. It's true, it would make a beautiful background paper as well.
    For all us Photoshop maniacs out there, is there a Photoshop Anonymous? It's amazing how it can just eat up hours.

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  9. Ohhhhhhhhhhh . . . Vicki . . . I LOVE what you did with this digitally altered photo . . . you are really good at this!!!!

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  10. Indeed you are good at it, my dear, and you do make it look and sound easy ..... but I know better! hugs, nancy

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