Monday, February 3, 2014
Idiom Project
-Lori Kowalke
Masks were a brand new concept to me, I had seen them used in the past but never knew how to capture that effect. Upon learning this technique I wanted to use it both overtly and covertly. Obviously, the building is not made up of a galaxy but less noticeable is the Greek flag which features DNA strands rather than the normal solid blue. I found that using both of these things allowed me to convey my idiom in a complete way. Looking back on my process, I would have been easier to make the phone a mask as well rather than formatting the screenshot the way I did.
Come hell or high water
I collected four images. One of hell, one of stormy seas, one of a boat and one of a man looking backwards pointing. I changed the color channel of hell to make it darker and more hell-like. Then I cut out the waves from the stormy sea and copied and pasted it, rescaling it as it went further back to make the expanding ocean. After I had all the waves where I wanted them I merged them and changed their color scheme to make them more blue and saturated. This was done to contrast them more with the hell image. I then masked the man and the boat from their respective images on a pitch black layer behind them. On the black surface I stroked with 10% opacity the outline of the boat and man with various brush widths. Lastly, I put the text on with the text effects of outward glow and bevelling. 
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