Cloth Paper Scissors - March/April 2009 - (Page 35)

MANIPULATING making a collage on printable cotton images in 1. play with the color • Use the Hue/Saturation box by clicking on Image>Adjustments> Hue/Saturation and adjusting the sliders. • Use the Paint Bucket tool at various tolerances to ﬁll areas with color. • Use the Replace Color box by clicking Image>Adjustments> Replace Color to vary one color at a time. re-size your image • Use the Image Size box to make it the appropriate size for your 8½" ¥ 11" substrate. Click on Image>Image Size, check the “constrain proportions” box, and type in the appropriate width or height. I usually start with 5" ¥ 4" or 6" ¥ 8". • Find a composition within your image that you want to enlarge and use the Crop tool to cut out that chosen piece. Then use the Image Size box to make that composition the appropriate size for your substrate. layer one image over another • Use the Move tool to drag one image on top of another and then reduce the opacity of the top image in the Layer Style box (double click on the layer in the Layers panel, and use the Opacity slider) so that the image underneath shows through. You may ﬂatten the image at this point by clicking on Layer> Flatten Image, and then play with color and composition per above. “Fig Leaf” • 83⁄4" ¥ 151⁄4" • “I had no idea where ‘Fig Leaf’ was going when I started, as is the case with most collages to some degree or another. This piece stayed at a kind of midway point for many days while I worked on others in the series. I tweaked it frequently, but nothing was jumping out at me screaming for emphasis. Finally, it occurred to me that the ﬁgure in the image was badly in need of a ﬁg leaf. I found a photograph of one, scanned it, and printed it out in several different sizes. When I found the size that worked, I painted over it and added a little glitter for fun. I tried many ways of applying my ﬁg leaf to the appropriate spot, but it just didn’t work visually. Hanging it off the bottom of the collage seemed to work, and then I added the top row of iridescent glass leaves.” C P S

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Cloth Paper Scissors - March/April 2009 Musings Contents Now Read This The In-box Who Did This? Popping the Question Muse Flash The Workshop: Modeling Paste “Recycled Circles” Artist Profile: Sara Lechner Fickle Flowers “Skeletons in your Closet” Reader Challenge Printable Cotton Collage Stop! Look! Listen! Revisionary Journals Creating Custom Paper for Collage Metal Magic Artist to Artist with Martha Lent An Apron as Personal Armor I Made This: "Gypsy Cats" Versatile Identities Marketplace Classifieds and Ad Index Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Homework

Cloth Paper Scissors - March/April 2009

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