Creating photoshop images

Next was onto Photoshop to start refining my images. I played around with some of the cells, layering them onto of each other and playing around with the effects. Overlaying the images was really interesting and I loved how the combination of two different cells looked together one on top of the other.

 There was something though that I did not like about how some of them didn’t fit exactly onto each other and they would have different mid points. This was something that I could not change with my drawings even through Photoshop so I would either have to redraw them all focusing on keeping them the same size and shape or keep experimenting with Photoshop. I didn’t really want them all to be the same size as half the point with cells is that they have movement and are all unique shapes.

I looked at the smaller sample drawings I had done to see if I could piece these together to make a repeat print. It was a tedious job and tested my Photoshop skills as I hadn’t created the sample drawings to fit together exactly and using the cloning tool to copy areas to match them up wasn’t the neatest either.

Overall the Photoshop experiments weren’t the greatest success and something I clearly needed to work on.  BUT THEM CAME A EUREKA MOMENT. While playing around with the cell sample drawings I decided to see what it would look like if I mirrored and overlaid the images as this way I would get the dense cells which I liked in the previous Photoshop trials without the problems of them not fitting well together. After doing a couple of trials I found that I really liked the patterns they created. They were simple but you could still see that cells were the basis of the project. It allowed me to create denser cells in the middle then spread out on the outside. The Photoshop trials were a success and I continued to experiment with the and see how far I could push it.