"Givin' you the bird." (No, no. Not that way.)

My classes in Adobe Photoshop continue with lessons in clipping masks and artistic manipulation of photos. It's to my benefit that my homework offers me additional prints to add to my gallery online. The classes I'm taking at Saint Petersburg College are less lectures than real-world exercises that graphic artists would accomplish for design corporations and advertisement industries worldwide. Last Thursday, I edited a restaurant ad, using multiple images, to create a puppy dreaming of chicken curry, and utilized a few vacation photos, with clipping masks, to make a convincing Hawaiian postcard.
Later, I applied these same methods to a few images of mine. On my latest trip to Walter Fuller Park I captured a very nice image of a juvenile ibis, a common seabird in my area that has a thin, curved peak. While the image of the bird was impressive and crisp, the surrounding mud flats, murky waters and lichens combined into palate of nauseating hues. Well, I did manage to apply a clipping mask to Mister Ibis and remove him from his surroundings. and then I located a simple snapshot from Fort Desoto Beach to apply behind him. After a bit of tweaking, and multiple Photoshop layers, Mister Ibis developed a blurred shadow, some selective color fading and Gaussian blur to suggest that he was on that beach, in the sun, all the while.

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(2 C More Art go to www.artoflylepolyak.com or www.themindscapeartfoundry.com)