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Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao's heads put on babies' bodies with Photoshop

I’ve done many articles about Photoshop in this blog. And many of them concern photo montage where a composite photograph is created by joining two or more other photographs. However, this article has come from something I’ve seen in studying my Google Analytics. An awful lot of people arrive at my site having typed the [...]

September 21, 2009 2 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
Tagged With: curves, cut out, montage, Photoshop, technique

Changing the shape of a leaf in Photoshop

a seedling in earth in a pair of hands with leaves in the shape of the continent of Africa

I did this montage to illustrate marketing material that was highlighting Africa as a young and emerging economy. I had a photo of an ordinary seedling growing out of earth in someone’s hands. I created another layer of this picture (Cmd/Ctrl-J) and cloned out the seedling using the Rubber Stamp Tool (S). I then went [...]

July 15, 2009 9 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
Tagged With: images, masks, montage, Photoshop

Using Photoshop channels to create cool montages

A client of mine was illustrating an article about the World Economic Forum whose annual meeting is usually held in scenic Davos in Switzerland. My client was keen to stress the importance of interconnectivity within both the forum and the wider business community and gave me an image of connected wires of light to marry [...]

March 12, 2008 22 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
Tagged With: annual meeting, brush tool, business community, channels, client, cmd, curves, Davos, forum, Illustrator, images, interconnectivity, layer mask, mask, masks, montage, montages, outlines, palette, Photoshop, rgb, rgb channels, s, sky, snowy village, switzerland, technique, threshold, white background, world economic forum

Box packaging designed for music software

This is a sierra box for a music software company that I did some work on. I did the photo montage of the DJ. This design will also be rolled out onto the amaray cases (DVD case), DVD or CD disc labels, a manual cover and advertising. I loved doing this work. One, it was [...]

February 23, 2008 13 Comments Filed Under: Design
Tagged With: amaray cases, box, box packaging, boxes, cd, cd disc, cover, design, dj, dvd, montage, music, music product, music software, packaging, photo, sierra, software company

Sierra boxes and amaray cases for CD and DVD packaging

Here (above) are three sierra boxes I did for a music creation software company. Also in this product range I did a DVD disc label, manual, jewel case and amaray case which are housed, obviously, in the sierra box. The sierra box was also printed with a spot UV or varnish which give the pictorial [...]

January 19, 2008 2 Comments Filed Under: Artwork, Design
Tagged With: amaray case, amaray cases, attractive appearance, box, boxes, cd, computer games, design, design possibilities, disc label, dvd, flat artwork, jewel case, montage, montages, music creation software, packaging, pictorial elements, punch, sierra, software company, varnish, vhs cassette

How to design a montage in Photoshop

Here, as promised, is a short tutorial about creating montages. Here is a montage of three different images which gel together without having to laboriously cut anything out. Layer masking with a brush I sized the cityscape image over the picture of the girl and played around with layer blend modes until I chanced upon [...]

November 27, 2007 35 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
Tagged With: color, design, dodge, foreground and background, gradient, gradient tool, images, layer blend modes, layer mask, layer palette, left hand side, lighting, mask, masks, modes, montage, montages, opacities, opacity, palette, Photoshop, technique, trick

Montage design for music DVDs

I have been working on some CD and DVD packaging for a music creation software company. I love doing stuff to do with music and here I was asked to create some montages to express different musical genres. The montages will eventually go on large sierra boxes (a sierra box is a large cardboard box [...]