{"id":533,"date":"2008-01-20T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-01-20T02:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T08:28:00","slug":"2008-01-07-jennifer-at-col-cacchio-colour-version-2008-01-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2008-01-07-jennifer-at-col-cacchio-colour-version-2008-01-20\/","title":{"rendered":"2008-01-07 Jennifer at Col Cacchio &#8212; Colour Version 2008-01-20"},"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\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2207285150\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 397px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2073\/2207285150_e67e903e9f.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2207285150\/\">2008-01-07 Jennifer at Col Cacchio &#8212; Colour Version 2008-01-20<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\"> This is the colour version of a doodle I did on the table cover when Jen and I ate at Col&#8217;Cacchio in Benmore.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m truly amazed that the line work stands up to scrutiny. The linework itself is fine. I&#8217;m very happy with the original drawing. What amazes me is that this is actually a very poor photograph of the drawing, taken with my Nokia N91.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 2 megapixel camera. And it&#8217;s got this habit of taking the picture about 5 seconds after the fake shutter sound plays. And the camera has to be held deadstill for all that time, else it blurs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve really loved doing the colouring on this one.<\/p>\n<p>All of it&#8217;s been done in Photoshop CS2. There are about 25 layers, each one dedicated to different bits and pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The key trick I&#8217;ve learned is to ALT-click on the &#8216;New Layer&#8217; icon in the layers palette. Then select &#8216;Overlay&#8217; as the layer mode. Then select &#8216;Fill with 50% gray&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Once the layer has been created, press the &#8216;D&#8217; key. This sets the default colour palette to Black and White.<\/p>\n<p>Use a brush set to between 10 and 40% opacity to paint into the grey overlay. Black &#8216;Burns&#8217; the pic, making it darker. White &#8216;Dodges&#8217;, making it lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Use the &#8216;Smear&#8217; tool (the pointed finger) to shmoosh things around a bit to neutralise anything you don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>Killer tool. Several layers like this will result in kick ass highlights and shadows.<\/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>2008-01-07 Jennifer at Col Cacchio &#8212; Colour Version 2008-01-20, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This is the colour version of a doodle I did on the table cover when Jen and I ate at Col&#8217;Cacchio in Benmore. I&#8217;m truly amazed that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2008-01-07-jennifer-at-col-cacchio-colour-version-2008-01-20\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008-01-07 Jennifer at Col Cacchio &#8212; Colour Version 2008-01-20<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-life","category-photoshop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-8B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}