Digital Ether

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.

This little tool takes a sketch, searches for similar images and creates an image.

See “Too much Information?” on NineMSN’s Grazia for an excellent example is the Photoshop effect on our perception of reality.
Or this production piece for the second Twilight movie

Notice the perspective of the external hard drive in front compared to the background.

James showed me Chris Scalf’s website, and it has to be some of the best work with Photoshop I’ve ever seen. If Illustration is your interest, then it shows you what is possible.  With a lot of passion any area of Multimedia can produce art like that, no matter which IT tool you use.

There are some good examples of Tonal Photos, Color Photos, and Washes on the betterphoto.com website.

And a tutorial on creating a sepia wash with chemicals or photoshop.  Since I can’t do the first, I tried the second.  It worked but the instructions are a little out of date.  (http://photo.net/photo/sepia/index)

Note that for Photoshop CS 3.  Click in the color curve box (ie first one) to modify the curves, then the second box to select the PANTONE … colors.  But other than that it was easy to follow.

Here are some useful links to trial versions of the software that will be used in VET Multimedia.

Adobe Suite , which includes PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, and Flash amoung others

Autodesks 3DS Max