Making a layered digital collage
Technique Tuesday!
I’ve previously shared my technique for creating digital collage using scanned background papers. For this specific collage, I used four layers:
- The background layer is a piece of watercolor paper textured with gel medium and cheesecloth that I painted and scanned. I altered the colors in Photoshop to suit this particular piece.
- The middle two layers are the same shot of the Rocky Mountains, applied in overlay mode and merged into a single layer. I erased and faded the edges to merge the image into the background.
- The top layer is a very faded oval selection with feathered edges from a photo of me holding my newborn son. When I placed it on top of the layer stack in Photoshop, there was too much light under some spots on our faces. So I went back into the middle layer, darkening and blurring those spots.
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8 opinions for Making a layered digital collage
freebird(Timaree)
Mar 25, 2008 at 10:45 pm
First, I thought I’d left a comment on the first edition of this picture. We all miss our kids at times. This year for the first time in years, I didn’t see mine at Easter. I don’t think there is anything offensive about your posting. If you thought it was missing your son, well that’s a universal feeling. If it was because you mentioned Christmas, well we all have days that mean a lot to us; we should be able to understand and accept each others special days whether we call them religious or otherwise.
You are going to send your son a copy of this picture aren’t you?
Cyndi
Mar 26, 2008 at 9:43 am
I was really just hoping that no one felt my use of scripture that is referring to the Messiah would be offended by my use of it to refer to my son! :-)
I hadn’t really thought about sending him a copy, since he has a copy of the original photo of me holding him. But maybe I’ll at least send him a link to the blog post LOL!! Good idea!
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