Photoshop Task

I have been using Photoshop, in its many versions and updated forms, for over 12 years; so today's session was nothing new for me. I did, however, enjoy recapping on the basics and making a collage image of juxtaposing elements - an idea which I may take further in future work? Photoshop will ultimately be underpinning the development of my professional practice throughout the course of my studies, as digital illustration is something I am extremely interested in and hope to improve my skills in over the duration of my degree.

 

Rather than just crop my plant or rotate it to the side to demonstrate today's simple adjustments, I wanted to reflect my knowledge of Photoshop by creating very different edits with quite a few adjustments added to create a whole new image.

• Edit 1: I resized my ink leaves using the free transform tool, altered the brightness and contrast so that the background was bright white and the leaf was as darkly contrasted as possible to create a clear silhouette and used an image of overhanging leaves on a lighten layer mode.

• Edit 2: Using the free transform tool, I rotated the ink leaves onto their side by -90º, gave a pink hue with a heightened brightness, went to layer adjustments and added fine diagonal lines to change the visual language and added a pink stroke layer to outline the image more abruptly.

• Edit 3: I had the most fun with this! I duplicated the layer and adjust the top layer to 'screen' to give a stylised brightened aesthetic and using an iteration of duplicated images, transformations and rotations created this fun collage. I like the layering of the different images, the rotation and the overall colouring alluding to a diluted ink wash that has slowly been worked on.

• Edit 4: I resized the ink leaves, ramped up the saturation and changed the hue to a purple tone. I also played with the levels, editing the darker points, mid-points and light-points and duplicated the image setting the top layer to overlay. I really like the hints of blue, green and yellow that have peeked through in this experimentation - adding more tonal range and visual interest.