Since it's almost Christmas and I was thinking what I should do for people's presents/cards I thought I might try my hand at making my own Christmas cards.
For this simple one which I am going to show you all I did was use an A4 sized work piece in photoshop, marked out score lines so that I will be able to fold it neatly and added a frame for photographs using some brushes. I then added an image which I decided to use for this particular card and edited it slightly so it fits in more with the Christmas card theme, In this case I basically desaturated the image and added grain before putting it in place. Then all that was left to do was to add the cliché text and there we have it, a festive card!
For my next piece, again I took inspiration from some work I have seen on DeviantArt, the concept is called "Triptych" and it is simply the combination of 3 similar photographs into one digitally combined image.
Here are some examples.
So for my Triptych I decided to use these three photographs from my recent work in the studio.
Since the colour range in the background is slightly different in each individual photograph is slightly different and I want the images to be very similar I decided to use black and white images of the photographs and I also decided to crop each image down so that it has a much more up close feeling so that the image as a whole creates a much stronger impact. Once all three images were together on one work piece I chose to create a colour balance adjustment layer so that I could warm up the highlights and cool the darker tones and in doing so I feel that I created a rather stunning piece of work.
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