Friday, December 5, 2008

For Angela~

If you happen to be one of my parents stop.right.now.

But honestly you probably won't pop on here anyway since you never seem to pay attention when I tell you guys you can come on here to see recent pix of the kids...lol. Oh well...

In any case-here ya go Angela-the finished project! I love how it turned out. Frame was 5.99 at TJ Maxx. Sorry-bought both they had-lol. My mother in law will get the same-except for her I plan to make xmas ornaments in the style of soldered photo charms-only larger-wallet size-ish...

I love how each one looks exactly like them-obvious who's who.




As far as how it's done-there are a couple different ways. The first way I heard was to take a profile pic then print, cut out carefully then paint black and paste onto white paper. Would probably have been easier and quicker than what I did in photoshop. I started w/ the magic wand and set to pure white and took out sections of the background as much as possible (best if profile has plain, light background w/ no shadows) then do the same for the head-except switch to black...then enlarged really big and switched to the paint brush to do detail work and the sections the wand didn't do-then do the magic wand again on both just to clean it up and make back and fore grounds uniform in color...

Make sense? Any questions just ask! :) I'd say it took close to an hr or a little less on each.

1 comment:

Angela Wright said...

Yea! Thank you so much for posting! Just out of curiosity - did you take photos of them with the intent to use them for this project? Also, how did you decide to do the cut off on the shoulder? That frame is perfect, don't you love it when it all comes together? That is a rare thing in my life..lol..Thanks again, I think I'll try the digital way. I'll send you an image if I ever get them done.