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Hello, I'm Marumiyan. I am a graphic designer.
I will show you how i created my work for the Fotolia TEN Collection.
My favorite tools are Adobe Photoshop and my Wacom Pen Tablet.
I chose "Sound" as my theme.
I decided to express the image of "Sound", because some photos on Fotolia are very powerfull and have impact,
and this theme can accentuate the power of these images.
I chose this theme because I love music,
and I personally like visuals which make me "feel" sound.
When I was searching images on Fotolia
and selecting a motif to use, I spontaneously chose this theme.
About having a defined art direction, or none: I think both have good points, and I like both almost equally.
The former can be a challenge to express myself with restriction,
and this restriction may lead to a new discovery.
Latter way, since I can create and try something new freely,
I may be able to encounter a new and different expression.
I added shadow to each layer to give more depth to this work
and I regulated the colour of each layer to blend in.
The different materials have different depths of layer,
so I needed to adjust each layer when I located it.
When I blended the bonsai image and other motifs together,
I adjusted the pressure of the brushstroke of the pen tablet, so they would blend well.
For motif of light such as the lighting, I used the brush tool to produce lines,
then applied the Outer Glow of the layer style to make it shine.
The light is studded in the whole work as an accent.
I desaturated all the colour, put red accent colour partially,
and unified the whole image in black and red.
The main bonsai is made by combining bonsai and driftwood images,
and I put amplifiers and speakers in it.
I placed the wiring cord to each of audio equipment.
I added a person to express sound occurrence from there.
In addition, I used a lot of animals and insects images.
Since I found this cool image of “Door knock handle” on Fotolia,
I decided to add it to the main bonsai.
I also placed small bonsais on both sides,
so I searched another “Door knock handle” photo from Fotolia and placed it there.
I masked the background of this image and added a new layer,
then I coloured eyes with Brush tool and made them glow with the Outer Glow layer style.
I wanted to show stronger metallic texture, so I used the Unsharp mask,
adjusted the contrast and colour by Curve and Hue/Saturation,
and blended the background layer by adding Drop Shadow.
I created this image by visualising old Mac in a middle and 2 speakers on both sides.
I searched speaker photo with similar shape from Fotolia.
Furthermore I searched similar kinds of speakers,
deformed the shape and made it look like coming out from the sea.
Since I work with intuition, I usually don’t use mask functions;
I rather cut down unnecessary parts and put them together.
Since the quality of photographs was beautifull,
I used mask function and made various function adjustments.
Except for the use of mask layers, I created this work in my usual manner.
Thank you for watching this video. You can download this PSD file from the Fotolia TEN Collection website.