Other than when I was younger and I played around on the computer I’ve never used Photoshop let alone professionally to create art, so it was new to me. Some functions are pretty approachable and easy to use, others aren’t. So before creating anything I need to understand how it works, what button does what. In order to begin this process I played around with Photoshop just to see what it could do, I messed with cropping tools, cutting tools, blur effects, filters, and more. I was able to become more comfortable with Photoshop so that when I began my project I knew what to expect. This was very beneficial in the long run.
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1. For the first part of the digital collage process, I use Photoshop. I inserted all the pictures I was planning on using and used the quick selection tool on Photoshop to cut out parts I didn't want or make some parts transparent so that they could overlap one another. I did this with all of my pictures and saved them.
3. This is where I began playing around with the arrangement of the layers. After I found the placements I liked I changed the size of the images and I also changed if they were facing horizontally to create a mirrored effect.
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2. For the rest of the project, I completed it in Photopea it is similar to Photoshop just with fewer fancy features.
4. After I added everything in a sized it to my liking I wanted to refine the edges and clean it up as much as possible. Some parts like this for example still had a slight white border that I didn't want her so I made sure to clean it up as much as I could.
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5. This is just an image of some of the layers I had all together I had about 10 layers
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6. As I mentioned before, most of my inspiration’s work, Man Ray, is in black and white. That is an aspect I wanted to include in my work as well. So I had to play around with different effects until I was able to figure out how to get it in black in white. Once I figured that out I played with the levels until it was the perfect variation.
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