{"id":28,"date":"2013-06-13T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/?p=28"},"modified":"2014-01-31T02:33:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T07:33:40","slug":"gelli-arts-print-composite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/gelli-arts-print-composite\/","title":{"rendered":"Gelli Arts Print Composite"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love taking my Gelli Arts prints and manipulating them In Photoshop. \u00a0In this lesson I am going to walk you through a very simple Photoshop composite. I will take \u00a0a print that I made with a stencil, and then a print that I made with basically the inverse, and merge them together in Photoshop. The two prints came out pretty well, with colors and saturations, and a full print that I liked, so there was not a lot of photo manipulation that I needed to do. I am working on another image that required a lot more work, and I will post that at some point when I get the writeup finished.<\/p>\n

Here was the original image of the Gelli Arts print using my Mask stencil.<\/p>\n

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I took the stencil with all the paint from printing on the Gelli Arts plate and printed on another piece of paper- so it was basically the inverse of the background print. It came out pretty well defined, but I wanted a bit more. So I waited until the stencil dried, and then scanned that in, so I could use it within Photoshop. Here is that image…<\/p>\n

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Within Photoshop, I used the select tool to delete the white background around the image of the scanned stencil. I brought that image into the same Photoshop image window as a layer above the background image. Then I used the Free Transform tool to turn and re-size the mask until it fit over the mask in the background.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the layers palette, there is a pulldown (Fx) that allows you to apply speciall effects to the layer. I used Bevel and Emboss on the layer with the scanned mask. So it makes the mask pop a bit. And here is the result of that composite…<\/p>\n

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And that was it! Not too hard! If you have any questions on the Photoshop tools I used, you can read through my other Photoshop posts (use the search tool to find them). There are other posts that go into further details.<\/p>\n

Then I decided to play around with coloring. I used an Adjustment Layer called Gradient Map, and chose one of the Gradients that had blue tones in it. I used a blend mode of color, and lowered the opacity. I liked the way this looked as well…<\/p>\n

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Finally, I chose one of the Black and White Gradient masks (and I chose reverse the gradient for this one), and I liked the way this looked as well…<\/p>\n

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I could go on and on, but you get the idea ;-). Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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