I really like some of your photomanipulation. But I have been wondering what it is that you manipulate, like, what do you work with. I really have no idea about photoshop and similar programs so, I was wondering what you take and how far you can manipulate it. Maybe you could show some of the pics you start out with or explain what you do, cause it looks really cool.
Sure!
I mostly use stock photos, which are basically photographs taken for use by other people. What I use and do depends on what sort of effect I'm looking for.
Like, my last manip, The Winter Ghost, was a simple one, I only used two stock photos, this one for the background, and this one for the girl. I cut out the picture of the girl from it's background, placed it onto the snowy background, and resized it to fit. I adjusted the colors of it a bit and erased part of the bottom half and then lowered the opacity of the layer itself to make her look ghost-like. I also added a bit of shadow to the ground to make her blend in better.
Then most of the rest was just adding layers of color at low opacities with different blend modes, as well as a texture in some spots, and then I just added some falling snow using a Photoshop brush I made.
That one was simple, it only took me about 45 minutes to make.
For a more complex manip I did, there's this one...
Originally posted by Lana
[b]Onward Towards Dawn
(photomanipulation, PSCS3)Looks like it should be a scene from Lord of the Rings, I think... [/B]
This one took me about 4 hours to make. Used this photo for the girl, this one for most of the background, and then this and one other photo which I can't remember which it was for the sky.
Same basic steps as the one above - started out by making the background by layering the sky photos on top of the cliff photo, using layer masks to blend it, and then adjusted the colors to blend everything together, cut out the girl and placed her on the background, added a shadow to the ground, painted and colored her hair, painted the orange sunlight on her, then added color layers to adjust everything and added in some shadows to make everything stand out more.
Takes a fair amount of work but I've been using Photoshop for a long time 😛