Shame of the 70s

[pasithea]

Is there a name for this sort of art? If you were a girl in the 70s, you probably had a poster like this in your room or one very much like it. I was experimenting with doing layers in photoshop similar to the way I do them in Illustrator then using them as clipping masks and doing shading inside them (like airbrushing friskets)

It didn't work quite as well as I might have hoped. Photoshop's vector tools are much more crude than the ones in Illustrator. You can't set a smoothness or blend vectors together easily or a bunch of other stuff. Also, if you make a mask from a vector, it doesn't paint to the edge of the vector when when you start doing painting over it in a paint layer so everything has white-line edges. Very annoying. Anyhow... Interesting to try a new technique and I will admit, I'd probably have put it on my wall. (I still have one of those big-eyed french clown posters stored in a tube *blush* )

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Wow. You pretty much nailed that frisketted airbrush look. Well done!

Photoshoppery tips: masking just doesn't quite work like AI, yeah. Try using layer opacity masks to control your paint. Or ask Ashy, she knows PS better than I do and I've seen her do this thing with 'linking' layers to create what looks like easily-editable masks. Also play with the little buttons near the top of the layer palette, below the opacity controls - one of them is 'lock transparency', which means you can't lay down new areas of paint, just paint over existing stuff. Depending on your blend modes this may be a solution.

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

If you were a girl in the 70s, you probably had a poster like this in your room or one very much like it.

But, but, where are the rainbows? And flowers? And pink? And the unicorn's supposed to be eating pink flowers and farting rainbows!

[paka.livejournal.com]

So did the original guys, was it just airbrush friskets then?