#showyourprocess
From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!
To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.
RULES — When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you'd like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!
thank you for the tag emi @wildwrlds!
Thanks to the limits of school computers, I only have Tumblr on mobile. I'll do my best, but I don't know that it'll be terribly elegant.
Here is the set I'll be using, specifically this part:
I made this set for storyseekers' florals event, so I knew I had to use flowers. I'd also already made this set, and wanted to do something like it.
I used Photoshop's default 1000 by 1000 canvas for each graphic, and used a high-definition image of a sheet of paper for the background. Then I went looking for my flowers. I tried to find flowers angled in different directions, and was most successful with the red ones; you can see the four background flowers facing each corner. I removed the background of each, arranged them (can I put florist on my resumé now?), and merged them together.
After I had my flowers grouped into one graphic, I used a filter from the gallery (Filter → Filter Gallery → Dry Brush if you're following along) to give the photos a more painted look. Here's what it looked like at that point:
After that, I started thinking about text and fonts. The title of the book was easier, because I knew I wanted to use Ralgani for its floral motifs and I didn't need to pick anything specific for the words. The background was trickier. I went back to the book to pick an email string (I used "You are a dark sorcerer") and played around with the font that most closely matched the one used there. I settled on Geosans Light, and copied the text of the email onto the background.
For the final touches, I used the Multiply layer look on the flowers to make them look like they'd been painted onto the page. Then, I selected the outline (Ctrl + click thumbnail), went back to my email text and rasterized it, and erased the text showing through the flowers. This gave me my final look, and I saved it as a JPEG, emailed it to myself, and posted. The whole graphic set took me about a week total, or four hours working time.
Now for the tags (optional, of course):
@percyokonjos for this
@rvbell for this
@opheliaaa for this
