Hello, I have been building my photoshop skill via skillshare and this is going to be the place where I offer my services and subject you to my artistic endeavors

Services on offer:

Image research:
- sourcing play-bys: I have a trove of faces that are outside the main hollywood bubble and am happy to help looking
- image upscaling: I have a powerful upscaler (paid software) and am able to upscale low res pics for you

Sets:
I am dabbling in collage! See below.
Imo the fun thing about collage is that you can source modern images and put them in victorian outfits and add a lot of imagery to compose very individual graphic sets.
BEWARE! These are my first attempts (I did not make my av). I am happy with them rn but hope you will see me improve over time.

I am looking for people who offer their play bys for me to make practice sets with and then give constructive feedback on the result.
No expectation to use them, but I think it would help me to stick with this.


Looking for tips on layering and typography!
Do you do the letters in photoshop? What fonts do you use? How do you achieve the soft layered look that is popular on the forum?

Things I have found useful:
Using composition aids. I used a transparent overlay of a fibonacci spiral for todays composition. I also use the golden ratio for my Avs.
This site for vintage images in the public domain.

Issues I've run into:
- compression if the source material is very large or small
- readability of text
- using the same image in sig and av can look weird. I wanted to make a corresponding av but abandoned the project because it did not look right.
- I have no clue how to use brushes in photoshop - the same brush randomly gives different results

Goal for the next one: figuring out gradient maps

Below is todays project, a sig for Sam.
I pulled material from five different sources. Head and body are from different images (both of mads tho).







Cheers x

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Set for Elaines new character Leila:





Figured out new brushes and more subtle layers



Typography by Elaine

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Set for Hester Frey






The avatar looked best to me with minimal alterations. Sometimes less is more?
Lettering by Elaine!

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Second try for Sam. Trying a different canvas size and doing my own lettering for once

edit: adding av to make a full set

  

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I've been making stuff lately. Moving away from a newspaper clipping style of collage to working within the limits of one image and within a tonal range of colors, also using texture overlays now. I had a few fails too but do not know if I shall post them.
I really enjoy making threadlog headers and will make more. Fitting the different sources together is so fun. My font game is still questionable though. Idk why, but it's a struggle to get it to look right.

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Trying something completly different for Morgs fall set <3

EDIT: did another one

  

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I VOLUNTEER FOR GETTING PRETTY THINGS MADE FOR ME AND THEN OFFERING CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK <3

Since you don't have a form I will just ramble some things and then feel free to ping me if there is other info you need xD
Character: Emrys Selwyn
Play-by: Colin Farrell - he has a wide variety of pictures, I enjoy the ones with mid- to long- hair but where he does not look quite so much like a pirate. Pictures where the facial expression could be described as "...the fuck did I get myself into" are very Emrys-esque imo.

Set things: I really like short/long signature images rather than tall/thin (his current code sig as an example, but you don't have to use those aspect ratios, I just find the /small splash of pretty/ appealing). Black & white or color is fine. Basically everything is fine. It can have text or not.

Character things: he's lavish, patron of the arts in all the various mediums (side note, he should meet Elfrieda sometime), polite society sees him as somewhat ~mysterious because he's known to like his privacy. Outside of polite society, he's a well known player in the hedonist circles (opium/other drugs, sex parties, etc etc), openly (in the right circles) bisexual. Runs away from hard conversations frequently! Owns a shipping business.

  

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Lou made this! <3

I VOLUNTEER FOR GETTING PRETTY THINGS MADE FOR ME AND THEN OFFERING CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK <3

Since you don't have a form I will just ramble some things and then feel free to ping me if there is other info you need xD
Character: Emrys Selwyn
Play-by: Colin Farrell - he has a wide variety of pictures, I enjoy the ones with mid- to long- hair but where he does not look quite so much like a pirate. Pictures where the facial expression could be described as "...the fuck did I get myself into" are very Emrys-esque imo.

Set things: I really like short/long signature images rather than tall/thin (his current code sig as an example, but you don't have to use those aspect ratios, I just find the /small splash of pretty/ appealing). Black & white or color is fine. Basically everything is fine. It can have text or not.

Character things: he's lavish, patron of the arts in all the various mediums (side note, he should meet Elfrieda sometime), polite society sees him as somewhat ~mysterious because he's known to like his privacy. Outside of polite society, he's a well known player in the hedonist circles (opium/other drugs, sex parties, etc etc), openly (in the right circles) bisexual. Runs away from hard conversations frequently! Owns a shipping business.

gladly <3 and your rambling is actually perfect. I'll hit you up on discord for everything else!

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You already know I love your art, so here is more begging. I would love a set for Imogene.

Name: Imogene Paxton
Play By: Jenna Coleman
Vibe: She's the Ravenclaw matron and is just starting this term. She studied to be a healer and still loves medicine. I think she would be a clinical psychiatrist in the modern world. Raising her brother is the thing she's most proud of in life. She loves books, dueling, and history. She's highly independent. Think small and mighty.

Colors probably favor blues, but purples and greens are also good for her.

Photoshoot I love here

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I would love to!

@ everyone who would like a set: about picture selection -- for my style I depend heavily on the lighting and color grading of the base image. For that reason, I usually like to go for movie material if possible because movies often have amazing lighting.

Unless a photoshoot is a highbrow piece of art like the jawdropping shoot I used for Morrigans sets, the light is usually very harsh and cold because of the Spotligths and Softboxes they use in photostudios for celeb glamour shots. They are pretty and flattering to the actor but hard to work with for me.

Please send me pics anyway, to show me what kind of look/era you prefer on you playby!

I am happy to send a preselection on discord or wherever before I make the set.


And Amy, your playby literally plays Queen Victoria in a TV-series, it does not get more period appropriate and she looks so so cute in that series. I'll send you some gorgeous options, hope thats ok <3

  

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