Saturday, March 16, 2013

A Penny for Your Thoughts

I was playing today. I've developed a recent fascination for wallpaper, which in this picture I created in Adobe Illustrator and imported to Photoshop.

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The mirror was created in Photoshop, when I was playing with the possibility of creating a frame from scratch. The clock is also a digital creation. The rest of the elements are from photos. I had fun with this one. I think I might do more similar pictures.

6 comments:

  1. Great wallpaper! Love the result of your play which I can appreciate so much more now I've read some of how you make these images. The reflections in the mirror are so clever and I like the addition of the lizard.

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  2. A super job of suspended animation, Deborah. What will happen next, on wonders...xx

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  3. Wow, great image, love the wallpaper and the created mirror!

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  4. Wonderful collage with the different papers.

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  5. wow! i had no idea you were creating in illustrator and not scanning/ downloading clips. very nice! must open up so many more opportunities to work with illustrator. i've never used it...huge learning curve I'm assuming.

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    1. Beth, mostly I am still using my own photos and scanning old personal photos. The challenge I placed upon myself is that the images should be 100% mine. I haven't yet decided if this is pride, or paranoia about infringing on someone else's copyright. Illustrator does indeed open lots of new opportunities, and it does have a steep learning curve. I'd recommend finding step-by-step tutorials on specific things. I recently created a clock face from an internet tutorial, which was so handy because none of my clocks in the house fit the styles I want.

      I should add that I did work for a few years as a graphic artist, and learned about creating vector graphics on-the-job in Macromedia Freehand.

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