Painted Paper Illustrations

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Painted Paper Illustrations

By Carmelo Diaz
http://www.rushprintingservices.com

Whether you are a designer, illustrator, or artist, or an advanced Photoshop user, you are regularly on the lookout for the tips and techniques that will allow you to use Adobe's image manipulation program more creatively. Using beautiful four-color artwork to inspire and a series of project-based lessons as the jumping-off point, Luanne shows you just how far you can take Photoshop's many advanced features to create dazzling digitally manipulated images of your own. Included are plenty of techniques that focus on making the most of Photoshop CS' new features: an improved File Browser; nonsquare pixel support; cool, new Photomerge technology; 16-bit image support; customizable keyboard shortcuts; the ability to place text on paths and in shapes; and more. Aside from those mentioned, here is another feature worth your moment.


One of the first art projects we did as kids was to create a picture out of cut-up pieces of paper. The fun was in deciding which color or finish of paper best resembled its real-world equivalent. In later years, after exposure to Chagall cut-outs, we observed that these paper collages are not confined to youth.


The look of collages crafted out of paper pieces can now be created using digital tools to manual scissors and glue. Well, here’s something for you. Learn how to make your own paper collages in Adobe Photoshop.


Since most of us bring our artwork in digital format, it makes little sense to sit around cutting up paper to make a collage. Even if you scanned the finished piece back in to your computer, the result would lack the tactile finish of the original.


But if you like the look of paper collages, you can make your own digital paper in Photoshop and then use masks to "cut out" the desired pieces. It's quick, easy, and requires no glue. Most of all, with this technique you are not wasteful our forest resources by not using pulped paper.


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