Photoshop and Your "Creative Vision", Part 2

Returning to our subject of "creative vision"... in the last post (Jan. 11), we spoke about drawing inspiration from many different types of images, letting them be the raw material that will drive your own, unique vision. It's fine to skim over lots of images, but for those that catch your attention, take time to look more closely. Analyze the artist's choices of color, contrast, density, composition, texture, etc. This may all seem very "calculating", but over time it will become intuitive. Let's look at an example:

I had seen this movie poster, and loved the "cold" blue color palette...

Then when this image came in from Countryside Studio, I immediately recalled the poster, and wanted to recreate the look and feel.

I like the composition and leading lines, but wanted to make it "feel" colder, and strengthen the corners and edges to draw the viewer into the story....

I also felt the image was stronger with just one subject...took some tricky cloning...I used curves for color balance, contrast, and density, used Lucis Wyeth filter overall with fade, gaussian blur around edges, a tiny bit of noise added overall.

Next post will be another study inspired by a movie...but you'll have to guess the movie after seeing the images (I'll reveal in a later post)

Relevant posts:

Creative Vision and the Printmaker Part 1
Photoshop and Your Creative Vision Part 1
Photoshop and Your Creative Vision Part 2
Photoshop and Your Creative Vision Part 3
Photoshop and Your Creative Vision Part 4
Photoshop and Your Creative Vision Part 5
Plus more examples in my video, "The Printmaker's Vision"