 | The Machine
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Marilyn loves her machine - but more than that, she loves her 5 grandaughters! Yip, 5 and she doesn't look a day over 35!
She asked me to meet, check over the bike, chat about the colour idea she had and look over an ENOURMOUS amount of pics and CD's and prints of her Dancing Angels. All the 5 girls are into dance and drama so we had plenty of photos to choose from! |
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 | Photoshop Time!
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| | After photograping the tank and collecting ALL the pics Marilyn threw at me (thanks for that Marilyn!) I managed to get the best pics together an began the montage work inside Photoshop. Usually we reserve Photoshop tutorials for the Photoshop Section for members, but I wanted you to see how useful it was for getting the right hair on one of the girls. We use Photoshop as much as we use an airbrush.
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 | Time to be the hairdresser too!
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| | Look carefully at this photo. You'll see that she has a hairband and her hair is tied back. Marilyn wanted her hair long and no band so the magic of Photoshop and it's layers (shown clearly on the right) kicks in to action! I took another photo where the hair was down and added this on another layer in PS, scaling it to the correct size.
You can see the photo below her hairband has gone and the hair is layered over the top (shown as Layer 8 but you can name each layer individually). We've also used (see Layers at top) a purple-filled tank image slected with the 'Linear Dodge' selected in the layers pallette. This allows the photo to show through and the photo has adopted the above purple tones, giving me a great tonal 'sketch' and colour value image to work from as a rough reference. It's very similar to using transparent colours over white which of course is how I intend to paint this image, so it gives a great idea and starting point on colour referene.
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 | Taking out the hairband & adding hair
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| | You can see on the right of the image below, the 'Layer Pallette' has the little eye icon switched off. This turns off the layers' visability which is the new hair layer (Layer 8) which is aso in black and white now to keep filesize down. I converted the top imge into greyscale as I knew that when I added the layer with the purple tank and selected Linear Dodge, that the imges underneath that top coloured tank layer would take on the aspects from that layer, turing the once black and white image (greyscale) to colour! Isn't Photoshop just brill!
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 | Taking out the hairband & adding hair
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 | Linear Dodge
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| | And notice above, the eye icon is now switched off at the top of the layers pallette (the purple tank Layer 11) so you can see that indeed, the underlying image is black and white (greyscale) in Photoshop and this pic, shows the girl with new hair overlayed (Layer 8).
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 | Marilyns 5 grandaughters Airbrush Art
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 | Marilyns 5 grandaughters Airbrush Art
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 | Marilyns 5 grandaughters Airbrush Art
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 | Marilyns 5 grandaughters Airbrush Art
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 | Marilyns 5 grandaughters Airbrush Art
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 | Marilyns 5 grandaughters Airbrush Art
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 | Marilyns 5 grandaughters Airbrush Art
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