Triptych

Album Covers

Ballet Videos

To get a better understanding to how ballerinas move, I looked on YouTube for dances.


This was the video I took most notice of. It is from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (Act 2, Dance of the Little Swans).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCQd1L_j-6A

Using Magic Wand

The Magic Wand tool is similar to the Quick Selection.

 You click on an area you want to select and it will select for you. The difference is that you have to hold down the SHIFT key (on the PC) to make additional selections.

Using Quick Selection

 When using a Quick Selection tool, you click on an area and it will autmocatically select the area of pixels.

 You can add on what you want to select at the same time by clicking on that area. Then just click copy and paste onto another file.

I used this method to put the ballerina and the music box in the album covers.

Digital vs Film

With film, you were limited to the number of photos you can take (maximum 36) and it also had to be developed, which can take time. During the photoshoot, you had no idea if the photos have come out well or if there was something wrong with the film until the last minute when it would be developed and you would have lost all your photos. It was also expensive.
With digital, you can see what you took on the camera screen and decide what you could do to improve. Providing you had a card reader, you could download onto your computer quickly and look at the pictures from there. While film is limited to 36 photos, SD cards can take 572 (sometimes more). Digital works instantly whereas film isn't and with computers and e-mails, you can send digital pictures to your client or colleague within minutes.
The major impact digital had with the photography industry was that it was quicker. Film needs to be sent away to be developed and then printed, meaning that it was expensive and took time. With digital, you just need to slot an SD card onto your computer and you could even print it from home or you could send the pictures to Boots or Snappy Snaps (or anywhere similar) and they can get it done within 1 to 24 hours.

Photo Line Drawing in PhotoShop

Open up the picture in PhotoShop and double click on the background layer to make it a normal layer. Then duplicate the layer twice so you have 3 layers that are all the same.

Select the top layer and change the blending mode of the layer to Colour Dodge from the layers styles drop down list.

Then Invert the image by going to Image and then Adjustments. For the Mac, the shortcut is Command+I. On the PC (which is what I am more used to), it is Ctrl+I. The picture may white out at this point.

Then go to Filter, then Blur and then Gaussian Blur. The amount of blur you use depends on the picture you are using and the resolution. I used 8.0 for mine.

Now select a Hue/Adjustment Layer and desaturate the image. Take the saturation slider to -100 and this will remove the colour information. Note: Don't go to Images, Adjustments and desaturate from there. When I did it, it made the picture a very funny colour and didn't remove the colour at all. Instead, on the Layers list, go to the icon which looks like half moon.

Then print it out and colour it in! For my picture, I used pastels.

Merge the scan with your original unedited photograph in PhotoShop to create mixed media reults. Open the original picture and the coloured scan, then drag the scan into the original document. Select Overlay from the layer blending mode to superimpose the coloured scan over the original picture.

The original picture

 Line drawing

Pastel-coloured line drawing merged with the original photo