Photoshop-hue/saturation tool

Whilst editing the illustrations, I used the Hue/Saturation tool to change the colour and lighting of my fashion illustration.  

How to navigate to the tool 

This is what it would look like when you open the tool.

Hue Bar 

Hue changes the colours depending which way you slide

Saturation Bar

Saturation bar to the left would dull the colours.

Saturation at the centre would make it normal.

Saturation at its highest would make the colours go to their most vibrant. 

Lightness Bar

An example of darkening the image 

The lightness bar changes the brightness
and darkness of the background 

Finale

Finale of the hue/saturation tool.

After using the hue and saturation tool, its helped a lot in knowing the outline of the fashion illustration so i don't misshapen the legs or arms by accident. I really liked using this tool, I would highly recommend it when using an image which has been sketched with pencil, lightly.  

Separating One Image into Two

Editing any image, you have to separate some part of it so you can edit it differently. This is how i managed to split and insert one of my designs into a new layer with Adobe Photoshop but can be simply replicated with the same tools on Pixelmator.

First thing you would do is to select the image with the Square selection tool,  Control+C then delete the image with the backspace. 

Create a new layer then just right hand click, paste into the new layer!

Pixelmator

Its the best, cheapest, possible photoshopping software I've ever purchased! Its essentially the same as Adobe Photoshop except its more...user friendly.  Its got nearly every tool that photoshop does but named differently and in different locations. It only cost me £20.99 but its hell of a lot cheaper than £54.99 for something which you can get thats exactly the same! Although, at college I would use the Adobe Photoshop because its available but for when I'm at home or away from college and in need for it, Pixelmator is just there on my Macbook waiting for me to use it.



Original Fashion Illustration

   This is the illustration I'm going to use as a main feature in my surrealist compositions.  I drew this illustration for one of my first projects! The theme of the project was 'Texture' and well...none of us really enjoyed making the theme boards as it wasn't interesting,  but we got to design autumn/winter collection for a 'client' going on holiday. These two were my favourite and most successful designs out of the 10 piece collection.

Surreal Illustrations Project

For the next project, I will be researching surrealist artists for influence and inspiration towards creating several outcomes of fashion illustration's with a surreal twist.

I'm actually looking forward to this project as it would give me some freedom to how much I can edit and change my illustration. I have no doubt that I'm going to find the editing a bit labour intensive and boring but it'll hopefully be worth the effort.

Surrealism Artist Research

Vladimir Kush

 Vladimir Kush is a Russian surrealist painter and sculptor and studied at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. He was conscripted into the Soviet Army for two years where he was assigned to painting murals , he moved to the US then eventually got5 his own gallery on the island of Maui, Hawaii.

He also won the First prise in painting at the Artistes du Monde international exhibition in Cannes.` Most of his artwork feature nature and people, mixing these together could create a surreal effect.

Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte is a well known and famous surrealist artist of all time for 'The Son Of Man' portrait. He wasnt recognised for his work until his late 50's when he got recognised and reached some form of fame. He was influential in the transformation of surrealism art and the pop up movement. Most of Rene's work was created my taking everyday objects and rearrange the figures, locations and objects making the view look deeper at what they were looking at.

  

Man Ray 

     Man Ray was an american modernist artist who spend most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Surrealist movement, although his ties were informal. He produced pieces in variety of media but he considers himself a painter. He's well known for his photography and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer.  

Paul Klee 

Paul Klee was a painter born in Switzerland, 1879. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually got deep into colour theory (Colour theory is a body of practical guidance to colour mixing and the visual effects of a specific colour combination).  He also did continuous line drawings and line drawings as well as his surreal landscape paintings.

Marcel Duchamp 

Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with dadaism and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century.

Final Image

Final Image

       This is my final image and representation of Roy Lichtenstein's 'Thinking Of You'.  I found editing this difficult because i have never edited, composed or even used photoshop before in this way. From this project, I have learned a lot from playing around with the tools and filters on photoshop. I like the way I  have enhanced the colour of the skin to make it more tonal and smooth. Maybe in thr future I would redo the photoshoot after learning more techniques and knowledge of photoshop and camera skills.