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How to Create a Digital ATC - Page Two
©2005 by aisling d'art
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To reflect the sky colors in the water, I made a duplicate
layer of the sky, flipped it vertically in Edit-->Transform. I
reduced its transparency to 36%, and slightly adjusted
the color to make it greener (for the influence of the green of the water) and darker. |
I remembered my
painting lessons which taught me that the sky is almost always the lightest natural tone in any picture. So,
the water had to be a little darker.
(ref. Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
- an inexpensive must-own if you're working with landscape-type art.)
| Next, I knew that I wanted at least one figure in this
ATC, so I went to my image CD, Shameless Hussies 1, and selected "Paris-Draped" from the "Exposed Breasts" file. (I tried
to label the files so that there wouldn't be any surprises.) |
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I selected just the figure to use on my ATC,
and blurred the edges
slightly. (Remember, if you're working with a layer that's going to be transparent, you can get away with far
less precision in your images.) |
I made a duplicate layer so would be two figures, flipped one of them,
adjusted the transparency, set the figures where I wanted them, and then I merged the two figure layers so that
I could play with the hue, saturation, and contrast.
Next page: Giving it meaning.
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