Creative Challenge 1: The Pen Tool by Aeirmid, journal
Creative Challenge 1: The Pen Tool
What is this?
I may be an experienced photomanipulator, but I still have a lot to learn. So, I am issuing this Creativity Challenge. Learn with me. Each week (or however often I am able) we will talk about a different topic relevant to photomanipulation. We will start with basic fundamentals and move to more advanced techniques. I encourage you to join and participate; the result will be a stronger PM community.
Confessions of a Stubborn Photomanipulator
Hi, I'm Jade, and I like to do things my own way.
For at least 10 years I have cut out my stock photos the same way: by using the polygonal lasso tool. I have gotten pretty good at it, an
Photomanips for Beginners by kuschelirmel, journal
Photomanips for Beginners
What is a photomanipulation?
Photomanipulations are images that have been composed of two or more photographic elements to create something new.
This is what the gallery description states. But what does it mean?
It means that a photomanipulation is based on photographs.
Not sketches scanned in (like line art for example) or screenshots from a video game. However, if you scan a photograph or for example dried flowers, it would be considered a photograph; while a photograph taken of line art still remains a sketch and is not consiered a photograph. Video game screenshots are copyrighted images btw and as such cannot be used at all.
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Know your Basics - Colour Theory (the manip way) by kuschelirmel, journal
Know your Basics - Colour Theory (the manip way)
Most of us have heard about Colour Theory - be it in school or on dA or as a term thrown about by someone somewhere. But what exactly is it? And how do you use it? This is what this article is striving to explain especially in regards to photomanipulation.
The Technical Part
Thankfully, there's tons of reading material about colour theory. Starting with the wikipedia article on the subject (which seems rather dry and boring to be honest) and ranging to tutorials written by deviants for their fellow artists. Those are the ones I'd like to recommend to you to get started in colour theory:
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Still too dry and t
Know your Basics - Composition (the manip way) by kuschelirmel, journal
Know your Basics - Composition (the manip way)
The Rule of Thirds is another one of those expressions that you have probably heard before somewhere but aren't quite sure what it means. This article strives to shed some light on this rule as well as on how to use lines and shapes in your compositions to lead the viewer's eye to the important bits. There are some compositional rules and pointers that no artist should go without knowing!
The Technical Part
Rule of Thirds
Thankfully this time, there are no hours upon hours of dry reading to be done because the Rule of Thirds itself can be explained rather easily:
"The Rule of Thirds states that an image should be imagined as divided into
Know your Basics - Perspective by kuschelirmel, journal
Know your Basics - Perspective
Perspective comes in different forms, the most obvious & basic of which is the use of the word in relation to the appearance of relative orientation in a three dimensional space. At first, it may seem irrelevant to photomanipulators, (because, hey, the photographs already are perspectively sound,) but putting more than one photograph in context requires that you learn to see what makes sense and what doesn't.
The Technical Stuff
Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most