{"id":492,"date":"2007-10-08T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=492"},"modified":"2007-10-08T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T19:48:00","slug":"damon-berry-of-the-rising-sun-collage2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/damon-berry-of-the-rising-sun-collage2\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Berry of the Rising Sun &#8212; Collage2"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/1517944646\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2287\/1517944646_9c18e2d66f.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/1517944646\/\">Damon Berry of the Rising Sun &#8212; Collage2<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tDamon Berry&#8217;s a great buddy of mine. He&#8217;s just finishing the tweaking of some of his poetry\/song recordings, and he&#8217;s going to release the album online.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday he gave me a call and said, &#8216;Hey! There&#8217;s an awesome art exhibition on at the Joburg Art Gallery! Wanna pull in?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So Jennifer and I went along with him. And we took Jennifer&#8217;s camera. And mucked around taking strange pics of each other in the gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Because we weren&#8217;t allowed to use flash, the pics were pretty fuzzy and out of focus. But they were pretty cool. And I decided I&#8217;d try and play with an unusual (for me) technique in Photoshop to get them looking groovy.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s one of them. It&#8217;s for Damon&#8217;s album cover art (if he wants it).<\/p>\n<p>The way I made the two collages in this series was quite simple. I used the photo as reference. Then I used the lasso selection tool to hand draw paths, which I then inverted, and simply deleted unwanted bits of various found textures. Once I&#8217;d done the basic building of the image, I used various layer blending to mess with the colours and contrasts. Voila.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damon Berry of the Rising Sun &#8212; Collage2, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Damon Berry&#8217;s a great buddy of mine. He&#8217;s just finishing the tweaking of some of his poetry\/song recordings, and he&#8217;s going to release the album online. 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