Original image by - Beth Icard
So. I just kind of played around with this one, tried something out. I wanted to try my hand at making a double-exposure image, but I wasn't exactly sure how. I searched around until I found a video whose process I liked and could follow. (If there was a better one on our class website in the "just for fun" section, I apologize. I either missed it or have forgotten about it by now.) So, because I had instructions, I guess I didn't entirely create this image on my own, although I used very different components than the guy in the video did. But anyway. I was just playing.
Process:
- I used the quick selection tool and select and mask to isolate the woman, and then I saved the selection for later use.
- I jumped her to a new layer, and then added a grey "solid color" layer under her. (Later in the process, I used the eyedropper to select one of the greys in the storm cloud and changed the color of the background layer slightly.)
- About this point, I forget exactly what I did. It happened very fast, because I was following instructions. There were masks. There was clipping! There were duplicate layers! There was desaturation! It was a lot to process. I'm lucky I made it out alive. XD I do remember that I used masks to bring the woman out where I wanted to see her, and to hide her outline in the clouds where I needed to.
- I found a woman/storm-related quote I liked and used the text tool to place it. I used two of the shiny new fonts I downloaded the other day, and I was pretty happy about that. (The emphasized words are each separate layers, because that font functioned differently than the other one in terms of spacing and placement and sizing.)
- I'm calling her Storm Goddess, and no one can stop me.
Design thoughts:
- Thirds!!
- I let the contour of the text follow the contour of the woman's face. (Well. I made it follow the contour of her face, actually.)
- I used a dramatically contrasting font to emphasize the words I wanted to stand out, especially given that those words so nicely echoed the storm imagery I used.
- I had planned to use either two black-and-white images or two full-color images, but I kind of love how it turned out with one of each.