Research- hand colouring/ painting

hand colouring has been around for as long as photography, it dates back to as early as the first daguerreotypes. people took to photography for its finally captured just what they looked like. however people were disappointed with there fine silks plained into simple black and white. here is where there old faithful portrait painters came in to give the images a splash of colour.
"Gone were those idealized portraits they were used to seeing from their portrait painters – the ones that put softness to their hair, a twinkle in their baby blue eyes and a romantic flush to their cheeks. While first dismayed at this apparent new intrusion onto their business of portraiture, it didn’t take long for the shrewdest of portrait artists to figure out how they could still make money - by working alongside portrait photographers, and offering a new service: applying their colorful oils to these prints. The art of hand coloring photographs was born!"

In the 1950 the age of colour film to the public, put and dramtic stop to the producion of hand painted photographs, why have painted images when the cameras now can produce the subjects colours to a good stranded.  "Increased interest in hand-coloured photographs. Since about 1970 there has been something of a revival of hand-colouring, as seen in the work of such artist-photographers as Elizabeth Lennard, Jan Saudek, Kathy Vargas, and Rita Dibert.Robert Rauschenberg's and others' use of combined photographic and painting media in their art represents a precursor to this revival."
In my opinion hand painting images is still a great way of adding colour, i hope that people will still at least experiment with this process, as you can create style and effects you cannot do in photoshop and other programs. i feel the main reason that hand colouring had very much died out is not because of the developments of coloured photographs, but the time needed to produce these well detailed images, to a high quality. 

photoshop hand painted images

for this workshop task we were asked to produce an image of someone that has been hand painted .
for this we took and image of someone, used photoshop to make the image black and white, then we printed out the image. after this we painted over the image with the paints we wished. finally we scanned them in. here is original,the black and white version and the final version.

workshop- spin and zoom technique

to create a focus point in an image. a good way to do this is to blur out everything, part from the chosen area/ areas. to do this you must first the Elliptical Marquee Tool, with this tool you select a circle area around the part you want in focus. now increase the feathering of the image to 150.

 after that press inverse to select the outside of the circle. now go to filters, blur, radial blur. here will pop up a box. in the box change the amount of blur, the quialty and the method of blur (spin or zoom). when you are happy press ok and deselect the image to get rid of the selection.

workshop task- borders

here is how to create a border using ocean ripple or the blur technique.
Ocean ripple: to create the border, select the rectangle marquee tool and make the rectangle a border you wish to have , now inverse the rectangle so the out side of it is selected. now feather the image to 150. after this go to filters and select ocean ripple.here you can change the amount and strength of the filter. I feel a higher amount is best.now press the erase tool -eraser tool needs to be selected from the left hand tool bar and the selected area erased. Once you have erased the area you need to deselect the area. To do so click on Select --> Deselect, and you'll be left with your final image.

blur: to do this do the same as for the ocean blur, up till you pick your filter. here select blur, gradient bur. You will then be presented with a window in which you can adjust the amount of blur you want. after this you can deselect the rectangle, giving you a border made of the edge of the original image just blurred. or you can erase the edges like you did for the ocean ripple border. giving you a plan border that merges with the edges of the image in the middle

workshop task- 3D images.

To create 3D images. You will need two images of the same thing, taken from the same spot and time, but one using your left eye and the other with your right eye.

Photoshop: open both images move the right eye images over the left image.

Select the top layer (right eye image), now go to image (at the top of the screen) // adjustments//levels. Now go to channels and change RGB to Red, after that change the output levels from 255 to 0 and press ok.(top layer changes to blue)

Now select the background/ bottom layer (left eye image), go back to levels, change the channel to green and change the output to 0 again (layer changes to purple, see on side bar on the right), now change the channel to blue and the output to 0 (changes layer to red).

Now reselect the top layer and change the setting normal to screen (locate on the right hand side next to the small diagram of the layers).

Put on your 3D glasses and see the 3D image you have just created. Note: you may need to move the top layer to make the image 3D, this is if the two images are to out from each other.

There is another way of doing this. Do the same this, but instead of two images, made from using different eyes. Just use one image, but duplicate it to create another layer. Background copy will be top layer. and to make it 3D move the top layer down and aross to the right abit.

 

 

 

 this is a 3D image made using the same image

Introduction

Over the next six week, we have been asked to project at least one final image that has been digitally manipulated in one way or another. Throughout the six week we will be completing three Photoshop workshops, which will help us expand our skills that we may use in our final image/s and is needed to complete this assignment set. There is no theme set for this assignment, we must choose our own, however we must use are Photoshop knowledge and skills to create the image/s. It also must be documented along the way with idea improvement and explanation to all work. This assignment covers unit 34 which aims to recognise digital manipulation in the work of others, be able to digitise source material, be able to create work using image manipulation and be able to present our own design ideas. Alongside this we have been asked to research the history of digital manipulation and artists which use this.