Digital Painting
mART 325 - Spring 2006
Instructor: Katherine Bazak
bazakk@smccd.net
kbazak@yahoo.com

 

Composite Drawings Using Layers (create 3)

  1. Open a new file (6" x 6" - 200 ppi)
  2. If layers palette is not open, go to Menu | Window | Show Layers
  3. Open each drawing (dry media, wet media, black and white drawings, pens) one at a time. Copy and paste each one into the new file. Layers should appear in the layers palette.
  4. Name each layer to correspond to the drawing.
    Double-click on the layer to name it or
    • scroll to layer attributes from the side menu arrow in the layers palette
    • or go to the Menu | Layers | Layer Attributes
  5. You are going to experiment with
    • Composite options in the Layers Palette
    • Reordering layers
    • Placement using the Layer Adjuster Tool in the Toolbox
    • The opacity slider
    • Orientation and scaling under Menu | Effects | Orientation
    • Make a reference layer
    • Make a Photoshop file and open it in Photoshop and play with it.
  6. Compositional Concerns
    • Contrast of Scale
    • Constrast of Value
    • Contrast of Shape
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