LAYERING EXPERIMENTS IN PHOTOSHOP

Chippewah, Used as Background Layer for Series. © by Ruth Zachary

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A SERIES OF ABSTRACT LAYERING EXPERIMENTS IN PHOTOSHOP

The Series name, Chippewah, came from a nearly disintegrated year-book cover from 1920. The flaked texture and color appealed to me, and is the background layer in this series. This scan has been used  many  times. 

            KP Mod was created in Kid Pix. Pale Blue Dawn was another piece made in another Photoshop series of experiments,  named Where Visions Gather. Dancing Around White was another piece generated in the same kind of process. That piece was completed as a collage on a Masonite panel, and no longer looks like the Computer design-study.

Going through the process step by step may help the viewer to see how changes are achieved on the computer, using modes and other techniques, with many possible versions.  Sometimes the process seems easy, but sometimes I spend a whole day experimenting, with nothing to show for my time. In the explanations given below, I have recorded all steps I have tried myself.

I will continue posting these steps on this blog until they are complete.

KP Mod, Used as Layer 1 in this Series. It Was Also Used in the Imagery of the Previous Post. © by Ruth Zachary

The series began with three layers. Layer 2 was named Pale blue Dawn, shown below.

Pale Blue Dawn. Layer 2 of this Chippewah Series. © by Ruth Zachary

Chippewah Series, #4, Bright Sunshiny Day, First Result of Series,  Using Modes with Layers in Photoshop. © by Ruth Zachary

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CHIPPEWAH 4 – layer1- Chippewah  as Background, Mode- Normal.

            LAYER 1, KP Mod, - Top position, Mode -Saturation

            Layer 2 Pale Blue Dawn. Middle,  Mode Normal 

You will see in the nexr few posts, that a great many of the resulting images from this process are extremely varied and in some cases do not resemble their parents much at all. 

Most of the images measure about 14x17" and are 300 dpi in Photoshop.

From four finished pieces to begin with, a total of seventeen images resulted. Although I would not accept some of them as works to display, all the same they do demonstrate the variations adequately to use as an example of How to. Of course you will want to gather your own textures so the results from your own experiments are completely your own.

Images and Writing are the Copyright © of Ruth Zachary.