Julian Opie Task

Using Photoshop Elements our group created a "blur" style album cover with all four faces in a sort of caricature format. This was first done by a British artist who created the blur album cover called Julian Opie.

We did this by creating different layers for each part of the image; Face, Features, Hair, Hair highlights etc.

Then by merging all of the layers together we get a final image. Because this is the first time i've used Photoshop for a task like this, it was hard to find all the tools straight away and the final outcome would look better if i'd had more practice.

We learnt skills such as:

• Navigating around Photoshop- using different tools such as paint brush and paint bucket and the lasso tool
• importing different layers to work on
• smoothing the edges of the image and changing pixels of the line for the face

I chose a purple colour for the image background as it contrasts the bright hair colour and features.

I added the hair highlights after the other features to give the image more texture and a realistic look, as most people don't have just one colour running through their hair.