Photograph Dimensional Objects
Lesson 7 from: Mixed Media for Digital ScrapbookersTiffany Tillman-Emanuel
Photograph Dimensional Objects
Lesson 7 from: Mixed Media for Digital ScrapbookersTiffany Tillman-Emanuel
Lessons
Class Introduction
17:38 2Building Your Digital Mixed Media Studio
03:32 3Discover Non-Traditional Objects
02:09 4How to Use the Internet to Build A Digital Studio
02:51 5Fill the Gaps with Fonts
03:46 6Match the Right Object with the Right Digitizing Process
02:20 7Photograph Dimensional Objects
03:47 8How to Scan Flat Objects
01:33Extract a Bead of Jewelry from a Photograph
25:51 10How to Create a New Bead
17:28 11Extract a Faux Stem from a Photograph
17:44 12Check Extraction for Ghost Pixels
11:15 13Extract Painted Brushes from a Scanned Canvas
18:35 14Create a Transfer from a Gesso Background
25:21 15Project 1: Introduction
03:33 16Project 1: Deconstruct Layer-by-Layer
03:15 17Project 1: Start with a Digital Substrate Layer
39:14 18Project 1: Add Photos & Frames
19:27 19Project 1: Add Clusters with Brushes
11:33 20Project 1: Blend & Reinforce Photos
14:26 21Project 1: Fine Tune & Finalize
03:19 22Project 2: Introduction
04:38 23Project 2: Deconstruct Project Layer-by-Layer
03:07 24Project 2: Start With a Digital Substrate Layer
12:56 25Project 2: Create Drama in the Project
14:48 26Project 2: Add Embellishments
19:21 27Project 2: Fine Tune & Finalize
04:58Lesson Info
Photograph Dimensional Objects
I'm gonna show you, or talk about some tips to give you guys some ways to do that. So first, we're gonna start off with photographing. I don't have any photograph, I'm not gonna do that. I'm just gonna show it to you guys up here, okay? Photographing. The important thing here is that you want to set up your camera and your shot to make sure that it looks good. So first thing's first. Do it with a white background. A white background is going to give you a more natural kind of look except if it's white. If it's white, then use something that contrasts, typically black or something like that. But with white you're gonna pick up some shadows that look really good with it. If you have, let's say, something in the background, then use something like a backdrop. I usually take like a large piece of paper and I will kind of just swoop it over, and then put it on here. Put it on top of it, so that it has a really good look. Lemme show you a picture of that. So it's white, okay? That's a piece ...
of jewelry that my mom owns, and I'm actually gonna extract that and show you guys a way to, to work around the kind of piece. Now, set up near a window with natural light. That's the biggest thing I can say, especially if you're working with things like jewelry or things that are sparkling. It will help reduce the kind of glare that would be created by doing something with flash. We don't want flash ever. So, natural sunlight whenever possible. You want to also try to limit the reflections and the hot spots from a shiny object. So here's an example of that. This is a ring. My mom owns a lot of jewelry. (laughing) I can just go through all of her stuff and use it, right? But you see that little hot spot of green right there in the middle? That's not something we want on our page. It's not gonna look good, and you can't fix it. (laughing) You can't fix this when you bring it into your digital part world. It's not gonna look good. So you have to kind of go underexpose it. Go a little bit darker and then use natural sunlight, but you can lift this. I'm gonna show you how you can lighten this to make it look good and it won't have that natural highlight. That's what we're looking for. You want it to look really crisp and really clear. The other thing is even though my hand is a little bit out of focus, you absolutely want things to be in focus. So an aperture if you're a manual photographer, or photographer I should say, and aperture of F nine, or F stop nine or greater is gonna help you with that. If you're using F stop one point eight, or something that has a lot of depth, a shallow depth of field, it's not gonna look good. It's gonna be too fuzzy. So when we go backwards to that little piece here, part of the ring's gonna be focused and then part of it's not. That's a cool effect if you want to use the photograph on your page, but if you need to scan and extract you don't want it to be fuzzy like, eva'. (laughing) So get rid of your depth of field and use a higher or a better aperture. And when possible, shoot standing directly in front or standing over something. Exactly how you want it to look on the page. So I'm gonna look really weird here for a sec'. But what I typically do is I will put something on the floor or the table and I will just get on it like that with my camera. So I'm shooting straight down. I never shoot from the side, or, I need to get right over top of it, so that way it looks perfect, because when we scrapbook, we never see something from perspective, we're always looking on a top view from it, like it's on a table. So you need to make sure that you're shooting in a table kind of position. I know that looks weird. (laughing) So, for photography, that's really the techniques that we can use.
Class Materials
Bonus Material with Purchase
Ratings and Reviews
Jane Millar
This class is FABULOUS! Tiffany is very knowledgeable and was extremely well prepared. (I watched the entire class from 9 to 4 today, August 18, 2016.) She speaks clearly and is easy to understand. She does move quickly through the material, so I would recommend buying the class so you have unlimited access to the videos. The bonus materials are great! This class is well worth the money. However, the class is probably for those with at least intermediate skill in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Beginners would probably find it overwhelming. I will add that the class is well suited to anyone interested in digital art as well as those who do digital scrapbooking.
a Creativelive Student
love love love this class...Tiffany is an awesome teacher. She has really organized this class to provide maximum value to the audience. Being a paper crafter and digital scrapbooker, the instructions/ideas Tiffany has shared will definitely help me to take my work to the next level.
Anita
What a fun class! I've been doing digital design for over four years but learned so much today! Tiffany Tillman-Emanuel is a very competent instructor, was very encouraging, and stressed that there is more than one way to do something in Photoshop and the importance of discovering our own style...highly recommend purchasing this course along with her class on compositing for digital scrapbookers...I got a great deal on both. BTW, I am not a scrapbooker but create and sell digitally painted background and art journal papers, so there's something for everyone in this class!