Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage by McIntyre Catherine

Author:McIntyre, Catherine
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-135-04614-9
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Flora I and Flora II, 2004. While I was working on the picture, I happened to change the layer mode of the portrait layer to Color Burn. This immediately turned a pretty picture into a much stronger one; hiding the eyes, especially, darkened the atmosphere along with the tone. I decided to keep both versions.

Saving it and final touches

It sounds obvious but it’s very easy to become so involved with an image you forget to save it periodically. The crash-free program still eludes us, sadly. Losing hours of work is very demoralizing, especially if you have a deadline looming.

The image is now finished, barring some minor touching up; to do this, first flatten your image. I always save the layered version first and then save the flattened file separately; this enables you to make further changes to the image later if you have more ideas. The final job is to go over the whole file at a high magnification to pick up any small imperfections with the clone tool. There’s a lot less of this to do if you’re using a digital camera, but if you have scanned in slides or used a flatbed scanner there are likely to be bits and pieces of lint or dust that will need to be removed. I always try to do this at the scanning stage, but one or two always get past!

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