I am watching the latest season of Mad Men on DVD – actually I can hear it while I am doodling by making this ‘Three Quills’ image in Photoshop.
I am just listening to the first two episodes, which I saw when they were on TV. Then we went on holiday and missed several episodes, so we have to catch up.
Three Quills
Three Quills
I took the photograph of one quill in an old inkwell some time ago.
Just now I increased the canvas size to accommodate two more quills.
I made the two extra quills by simply putting a marquee around the part of the image that contained the quill and then I copied it twice using the ‘Move’ tool.
Normally, using the Move tool will cut the image out of wherever it is located and ‘move’ it. However, by keeping the Alt and Shift keys (on a Mac) held down while moving the captured part of the image, the part around which I had put the marquee was copied rather than cut.
This method does not produce a layered image, unlike the copy and paste method.
Now all I had to do them was to put a marquee around the quill on the left and open Adjustments >Image > Hue/Saturation and adjust the hue. I then did the same thing to the image on the right but I changed the hue by a different amount so that the left and right images would be different from one another.
So then I have a variation of the color of the quill with the one in the middle being the original untouched color.
Of course, I could be quite free with the marquee because the background was white. Therefore when I changed the hue of the feather, the white background did not change: White stays white.
And why did I do this at all? Well, as I say, I was doodling. But I always find something satisfying about three or five or seven of anything laid out in a repeat pattern, especially when there is some slight variation within the layout, as with the color of the quills here.
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