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.