Thursday 13 January 2011

A dodegy title...

This is the original title image for this blog (if it differs from the one you can see at the top of blog right now my plan has worked- if not then i have failed in my attempts to figure out how this photoshop malarky works and you can ignore the rest of this post) It is just a scan from my sketch book however the drawing was not originally meant for this purpose as you can probably guess from the differing hues of the left and right pages. The image in drawn in an A4 moleskine Sketch book which is why the bottom of the scan has been chopped off- it didn't exactly fit into the A3 scanner- now i could have simply re-drawn the image in a smaller sketch book in which the pages where the same colour- however it did take rather a lot of time to draw all those squiggily patters so instead of taking the rather safer option of a re-draw- i decided to take the much more scary option (for me at least) of fixing it in Photoshop. Now normally i am against editing photographs and cleaning stuff up in photoshop- its just not for me - but every time i look at this title image i cringe at how awful it looks- so photoshop it is.
My first step is to re-scan the drawing and then scan a smaller double page of a sketchbook, then layer the images, somehow cut the image out, re-size in to fit on the smaller sketchbook pages, clean it up and hopefully it will work.....hmmm i dont have much faith in me either but i shan't give up until it is done and hopefully i shall even be able to remember some of the technical name for stuff :)

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