Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage
eBook - ePub

Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage

About this book

Catherine McIntyre, like many fine artists, created traditional art for decades before encountering the versatility of digital imaging technology. Free of her Rotring pens and scalpel, she now uses Photoshop to create her montages. Visual Alchemy explores McIntyre's sources of inspiration as well as her methods, offering an aesthetic guide to composition, color, texture and all of the other means of communication that artists have at their disposal. While these concepts and techniques make use of Photoshop, they will apply to any digital imaging program and indeed to any medium, whether traditional or digital. Featuring McIntyre's own art as well as that of artists around the globe, Visual Alchemy is an invitation to discover the artistic possibilities of picture making through digital montage.

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{Index}
absence 76, 77, 79
abstraction 74–5
Adamson, Robert 59–60
Adobe logo 124
Adobe Photoshop 4, 8, 44
canvas size 121
clone tool 184–5
color tools 121, 152, 154, 157, 178
file size 102–3, 109
gamut facility 160
history palette 108–9
inversions 187–8, 195
layer modes 4–5, 99, 101–2, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 117, 154–5, 157, 165, 180, 184, 188
proportion 121
selection tools 104, 105
agents 211
ambrotypes 2, 9, 90, 95, 146
anatomy 9, 10–12
digital dissections 86
models 85–6
textbooks 10, 86
Ancient Egypt 25–6
animals 9, 13, 64, 65
architecture 58–9, 62, 93
modern 61
ruins 59–61
archives 32, 89–90, 210
back-up your back-ups 210
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe 66
Atget, Eugène 25
Atkins, Anna 5
background 87, 91
creating 20, 103
removing 53, 105, 180
white or black 25, 52, 97
Bacon, Francis 79
Baillière, Jean-Baptiste 86
beauty
appreciation of 17
communication 18
essential to art 17
facial 41–2
finding 17
harmony/balance 18
idea 18
mortal 20
surrealist 20
truthful/logical 17
Becher, Bernd and Hilla 7
Bertillon, Alphonse 38, 41
Blakemore, John 70
Blossfeldt, Karl 25, 67
Boni...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Dedication
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. THEMES
  10. BEAUTY AND IDEA
  11. INFLUENCES
  12. INSPIRATION
  13. SUBJECTS
  14. COLLECTING SOURCE MATERIAL
  15. METHOD
  16. COMPOSITION
  17. COLOR
  18. TEXTURE
  19. TONE
  20. INVERSIONS
  21. DISTORTIONS
  22. DEVELOPING YOUR IMAGE
  23. THE FINISHED IMAGE
  24. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. Model release form
  27. Further looking and reading
  28. Contributing artists
  29. Index