Photoshop- Layer Blends

Layer Blends

How we created the Steven Irwin Response

We have started by taking images of our own surroundings that were a built up areas (town/city). When we had chosen the image that we wanted to create into a creative photographic piece.

Layer blends

Produce 10_8 inch print 

Copy and paste into first tab 

Command a, command c, command v. Command t to scale 

Transform scale- edit, transform scale and hold shift. Crop to size 

rotate if required. 

Duplicate layer 

Untick eyeball on new layer 

Image- adjustments-black and White 

Change levels if not happy 

Or curves 

Duplicate the black and white layer

Select the duplicate layer and inverse- select image- adjustments- invert 

Eyeball layer 1 copy 2 

Change to difference 

Magic wand tool- with the layer selected select a tolerance (10-15)

Shift to add to selection 

Alt to takeaway 

Lasso tool to clean it up 

Delete selected part of image 

Unhide all images 

Duplicate original layer (layer 1) 

2 black and white 2 colour( 5layers) 

Adjust fill to 80-85%- soft light 

On the right layer with sky deleted select magic wand and select sky 

Click on top layer, then press delete button 

Command d to deselect 

Bring back all layers apart from layer 1 copy 

Open other image 

Command a, command c , command v onto new image 

Ensure its transformed, control t 

Change layer mode 

Move layer to right and adjust levels 

Duplicate layer

Flip it edit transform flip horizontal move it over 

If see the line use clone tool

Open new layer and use colour range tool select- colour range copy and past onto image 

My own Creation 

When creating my own version of Steven Irwin's artwork I followed the step by step guide and threw my own twist on it and I used the effect of 'Hard Light' because i feel like it gives the piece more of a dark but you can see the blues and greens in there still.

I feel like i have linked my work well with Irwin's because it has the same sort of feel to it.