Micro 270

Posted on October 14th, 2009 in MicroStock, Microstock markets, image management

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Bust out your creativity and create insane new blocks, dashboards, banners, and panels with this hot nee technique. the bonus? You can use crops from countless images you already have. Sticky this post as your number one rainy day micro image photo creation project. A whole new era in your low cost legal images portfolio is about to begin.

Assign yourself some great picture taking that concentrated on contrast and shadow into one or two colors. Sure, you can always save as a contrast image after filtering it through a two tone sharpen on Silhouette selection tool, but actually seeing the shapes in the real and canting the frame is a much more organic way to structure your concept.

This is actually a picture of a partial tree. The above image was a touchy feely snap done with mulitple lens settings using a tree contrasted against the early dawn sky. I purposely composed the image to start offset from the tree top off to the side, the “fill” of the tree branches carved an interesting backdrop shape against the lighter sky forming an intentional silhouette effect.

IÂ was priming the image as an upright offset curve of tree and its distinctive fall shapes, when I got creative. Looking at the various grabs, the light getting pulled out of the midnight blue dawn, the milquetoast one surprised me with the most development potential. I selected the whole image in Paint, then inverted the colors. Hmmn. Interesting. The shapes were heightened and the image became abstract in one click.

Then I selected the whole image and pruned it down to a square with carefull skewing and attribute shaving. This meant getting an equal number of pixels in the attribute settings boxes. The wideness clipped in but didn’t lose the crisp shape of the leaves. Then I bordered the whole thing with the selector tool, choosing light brown.

The dark brownish color and the opaque white had the effect of a Victorian white lace dress I saw once designed to go over one ofÂ brown silk. When matches and turned on its side, the resulting image looked like an exotic Rorshacht bug. A couple of bright colors down center and the monarch effect would have been another beneficial image product.

I eyedropped the various colorsto eradicate this line but kept some of the centering detail for interest. The result? A unique composition that can be a banner, logo, brand, or doubled again to form a 360 degree figure.