Hand Painted Images history

During the 19th century hand painted images became very desirable as colour photography had not yet been invented. This was done to make the image more realistic as well as for artistic purposes. This was something usually carried out by the artist or photographer themselves. However some companies did specialise in offering this as a service. The colour was added straight on top of the surface of the image. Paint, oil, pastels and dyes were often used for the colour. As soon as colour film was invented hand painted images were no longer required and lots of colourists found themselves out of work.

Hand Painted Images

Original image

To create a hand pained image we had to firstly take a portrait photograph. Then in photoshop we had to change it to black and white. We then printed it out and started to paint in colour. Once complete we scanned the image into the computer.

evaluation

For my final piece in this half of the assignment we had to reproduce a piece of art as closely as possible. The piece i decided to reproduce was the album cover for umbrella assassins compilation album rancid milk. To be able to replicate this i had to use various tools within Photoshop and call upon all the knowledge we have been taught so far. Some of the tools i used included the magnetic lasso tool, The blur tool and the move tool. I also used a canon digital camera to take the image of a hand. Throughout the making of this piece i have found it very hard to completely match the shade of the album cover. The original looks old and not like one big colour block. This is something i still haven't managed to achieve. Due to this i am not entirely happy with the final outcome. If i were to do this again i may try printing the image i created off and then scanning it back to the computer to see if this helps with the look. I also think the image would benefit from cutting the letters out of paper and scanning them rather then copying them from the original image. I encountered a slight problem with the hand when i went to move it across. The persons hand i used had much longer fingers and a thinner hand then on the original. I had to re size this to try and get it to look more like the one on the original. This involved squashing and stretching parts of the hand as i needed it to loose its original look. I think this image was a good test of my skills as it looks quite simple to replicate but it in fact was much harder. Overall i think i could have done better with my final image. If i was to do this again i would definitely involve more experimentation to achieve the desired look of the original image.

final piece

final image - how created

To create my final image i moved the original image onto the page so i could see how it should look at all times. I then created a box to use for my image.

I then used the eyedropper tool to select the background colour from the original image.

Using the paint bucket tool i then filled the square i had created in the matching background colour.

I then opened the image of a hand i had took on a new page. To take this image i got the model to press there hand against glass to try and create the same effect as in the original image.

To start the transformation of the hand i changed it to black and white by selecting Image > Adjustments > Desaturated

I then opened the levels box to slightly alter the tonal balance as the image was too light.

Now i needed to crop the hand from the image. So i selected the magnetic lasso tool and roughly went around the outline of the hand.

I then selected the quick mask tool. This allows you to see the edges clearly to perfectly crop the image.

Now using the rubber tool you can perfectly go around the edge of the item you wish to select. Only the area not covered by the red mask will be selected so if you need to add any red then invert the rubber and this will add rather then take away. When finished it should look like this.

Now you are ready to remove the quick mask tool by selecting the same button that applied it.

Then i selected the move tool and moved the hand across to the page i was working on.

I then opened the original image in a new page and repeated the steps above to select and copy the text.

I had to move each letter across one by one due to the change in scale from the original image to mine.

I kept referring to the original image at all times to try and match the images as close as possible.

When i was happy with the position of everything i selected the blur tool and went around the edges of everything i had copied to take away the harshness of copying and pasting parts.

radial blur - zoom

Original image

Open the image in photoshop and select the circular marquee tool and draw a circle in the middle of your image. Hold down shift key at the same time to create a perfect circle.

Then go to select > modify > feather. This will soften the edge of the circle so it doesn't look like it was copy and paste. For this image i set it to 200.

Then go to select > inverse. This will make any effect happen on the outside of the circle rather then the inside.

Then select Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. This will open a new window.

The new window that opens allows you to change the effect of the blur. For the zoom effect select zoom under blur method and i change the amount to 48.

Upon pressing ok your image is transformed.

Final image

umbrella assassins - rancid milk

For my final piece I am going to try and reproduce this album cover.

Other ideas i had were:

3d text

black and white 3d image

3d imagery how to make

To make my two final images we had to first take the original images. The way i made these was to take 2 original images. One from the left eye and one from the right.

You then need to open them in photoshop. Each image needs to be in a separate layer on the same picture.

Make sure you have selected Layer 1. Then select Image from the top menu bar. Then Adjustments and then Levels.

This will now open a new box. 

From this you need to select red from the drop down box for channels. Once selected the output will read 255. This needs to be changed to 0.

You now need to select screen from the layers box.

Layer 1 is now complete. You now need to select the Background layer. Going back into Image - Adjustments - Levels, change the channel to green and the output to 0.

Repeat the above step again, still on the background layer, changing the channel to blue this time.

Both layers are now complete and should appear 3 dimensional through 3d glasses. However if there is to big a space between the left and right eye image this will need correcting before it will work. To do this select the move tool and move Layer 1 closer to the background layer until it appears 3 dimensional.

3d imagery final images

Final images

Nancy Burson - Composities

Nancy Burson is an American artist born in 1948. After moving to New York she became interested in EAT (experiments in art and technology). It was from this interest that she began to collaborate with computer engineers to produce a program which could produce an image of persons face at different age stages. This then began the Age Machine, the first of 4 programs capable of digitally manipulating the face. Later calibrations have created the Human Race Machine to see what people look like if they where born into a different race. This was created initially for the Millennium Dome in 2000 but has since been used as a tool to discuss issues of race. There is also the Anomaly Machine which was created to show various facial deformities. The most impressive however is the program they created to digitally manipulate images to create a whole new face out of others. This made Burson the pioneer of computerised digital manipulation. A thing so widely used today.

Produced in 1982 Burson created the above portrait image. This is titled Warhead 1. The image is made using extensive digital manipulation. This is used to merge the faces of people together, to create one new face, which is true to belief. The idea behind this image was to create the face of world power. To create the this image Burson used the faces of various historical leaders. It is made using the following people and proportions.55% Reagan, 45% Brezhnev, and less then 1% each to Thatcher, Mitterand and Deng. The image was originally produced as part of a series of manipulated portraits. It was then published in her book 'Composites' in 1986 but is now part of a show containing over 100 images entitled 'Seeing is believing".

Also included in the same series of manipulated portraits by Burson is the above image. 'Mankind' was produced between 1983-85. This digitally manipulated image was created by mixing the faces of Oriental, Caucasian and Black people. The proportion of their characteristics used is based on the proportion of them in the world. This in effect would be the face of the ultimate race.

Burson's early composites however are her most impressive. Created in 1982 she produced 2 portrait images of females. Their faces made purely from those of very famous women of the time. These images are faultless in their appearance showing the true skill of Burson's manipulation. Each image looks completely convincing that it could be an actual person as opposed to a fictional one. They both contain  soft and delicate features. The shadows created on the faces add to the realistic look of them. They are placed perfectly with where natural shadows lie across the face with the lighting used for portraits. The above image is made up of Bette Davis, Audry Hepburn, Grace Kelley, Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe.

The second image created at the same time consists of the faces of Jane Fonda, Jacqueline Bisset, Diane Keaton, Brooke Shields and Meryl Streep. I find her work with digital manipulation is very creative and inspiring. I really like how they are created and the idea behind them. The concept of taking a series of original images and manipulating parts of them, to create a whole new image which is believable to look at is very clever. The basic idea behind them can be used in my assignment but using a different area. As i could take images of something people see everyday that comes in different forms and merge them together to create a new object. For example you could create a whole new building from merging parts of famous buildings together.