I wanted to do a 'Walrus' wall this time. It was my seventh entry and by now I've learned a lot more about cutting out images and how to apply tools like the eraser, a smudge brush and various softening tools and filters to remove any unsightly edges.
Selection method :
1 cut out desired image.
2 using the selection wand set to opacity, select the image.
3 using the modify selection option, contract selection by 1 or two pixels, invert selection and apply a softening filter.
4 the edges of the selection are no longer pixelated.
At the time, there were a number of artists in the Walrus competition whose work I thought amazing - and out of reach of my artistic or technical ability - especialy the ability to overlay and blend images to give a wallpaper a 'mood'.
Having found the images to use, it was a matter of carefully cutting each out, fixing the pixely edges and applying colour and texture filters to make sure all the cut pieces have a tonal and colour likeness to them.
Once all the images were combined, a fair amount of work went into blending and erasing various parts of the images, to give the wallpaper a uniform flow, adding lighting and highlighting specific areas such as the eyes.
WW62 entry - Owl Dreaming - 28 10 2003
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