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| Unknown Eruption -My Low Poly Art |
This afternoon I created a low poly poster inspired by a landscape image I found online. This took awhile but I am impressed with the final result. This was my first time really using Photoshop which is the design software i used to get this final result. I mainly used the polygonal lasso tool for the whole poster, this was the tool i used to crate the shapes. Overall this took around three hours to crate as there were lots of fine details.
The first step in creating my final outcome was to find a landscape that I knew I could interpret into a space/dystonia feeling. The screenshot to the left is of me finding the image I went on to uses to help create a poly art poster.
The second step was to open up Photoshop and open up the image that i had saved into my files so that i could used it as a template to help me with the placement of the shapes. I right clicked on the layer and duplicated it so that i could have a locked layer encase I messed up on the top.
What I did next is probably the most important as I hit the (z) key to help me zoom into the picture and help me create perfectly joined shapes. Once I had created my first triangle I went into the filter drop down bar then when into the blur option and clicked the average bar. This took the triangle and filled it with a colour similar to the background. The key-bored short cut for this was shift command F, this was really helpful as I was using it every time I created a shape. After awhile you can see the dementia the shapes are creating most of the shapes were triangles but later on I did use other shapes to help make it more realistic.
This screenshot doesn't really show anything apart from the progress I made. At this point I had finished doing the fog and had also done the middle mountain which I tried to make look like a volcano. I was still using my keyboard shortcuts to help me with the shape filling.
This next shot shows it nearly completed as I had all the mountains done with rising fog between the two front mountains. All i had to do was the trees. On the back mountains I used polygons to create the stripes of rocks that had became quite texture in the image so i wanted to change my technique to create a different look so it sanded out as being different like the original.
By the time I took this screenshot I had finished with my design, which included the last part of the trees. In this screenshot you can see that the sky of the image is highlighted I did this so that i could colour the sky to make the poster look overall more dystonia like a planted might look. I selected the sky by clicking on the quick selection tool and moving my mouse over the sky and this then allowed me to select that specific space.
Once I selected the sky like I explained in the last screenshot I used the brush tool to paint it in a orange red colour. I trued up the size of the brush as it was a big space I needed to fill. Ones i did that i moved onto my last step this was to mess around with the tone of the overall poster. To do this I went into the filter drop down bar again and when into tone which bough up the tone sliders that let me turn tones of the colour up and down to allow me to see what looked best and when I had done that I moved onto the sky background and moved back over to the layer tab, there is a opacity bar which I moved down slightly to allow the original background of the sky through very slightly which just helped with the texture slightly but after that i was done. All I did was save it then export it into a JPG file.
The second step was to open up Photoshop and open up the image that i had saved into my files so that i could used it as a template to help me with the placement of the shapes. I right clicked on the layer and duplicated it so that i could have a locked layer encase I messed up on the top.
What I did next is probably the most important as I hit the (z) key to help me zoom into the picture and help me create perfectly joined shapes. Once I had created my first triangle I went into the filter drop down bar then when into the blur option and clicked the average bar. This took the triangle and filled it with a colour similar to the background. The key-bored short cut for this was shift command F, this was really helpful as I was using it every time I created a shape. After awhile you can see the dementia the shapes are creating most of the shapes were triangles but later on I did use other shapes to help make it more realistic.
This screenshot doesn't really show anything apart from the progress I made. At this point I had finished doing the fog and had also done the middle mountain which I tried to make look like a volcano. I was still using my keyboard shortcuts to help me with the shape filling.
This next shot shows it nearly completed as I had all the mountains done with rising fog between the two front mountains. All i had to do was the trees. On the back mountains I used polygons to create the stripes of rocks that had became quite texture in the image so i wanted to change my technique to create a different look so it sanded out as being different like the original.
By the time I took this screenshot I had finished with my design, which included the last part of the trees. In this screenshot you can see that the sky of the image is highlighted I did this so that i could colour the sky to make the poster look overall more dystonia like a planted might look. I selected the sky by clicking on the quick selection tool and moving my mouse over the sky and this then allowed me to select that specific space.
Once I selected the sky like I explained in the last screenshot I used the brush tool to paint it in a orange red colour. I trued up the size of the brush as it was a big space I needed to fill. Ones i did that i moved onto my last step this was to mess around with the tone of the overall poster. To do this I went into the filter drop down bar again and when into tone which bough up the tone sliders that let me turn tones of the colour up and down to allow me to see what looked best and when I had done that I moved onto the sky background and moved back over to the layer tab, there is a opacity bar which I moved down slightly to allow the original background of the sky through very slightly which just helped with the texture slightly but after that i was done. All I did was save it then export it into a JPG file.
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