FMP - Palace

In today's session I wanted to experiment with photoshop in a different sense to my other drawings by instead combining real-life imagery to create a realistic interpretation of the drawing and then age it with further photoshop effects to create a photo of my fictional palace. The first step was to gather the imagery that I will be using for this photoshop experiment and making sure to pick the sort of architecture that I wish to be influenced by so I can create a unique style. Some of the various assets that I used in this palace construction was a japanese pagoda, various bonsai trees, african palace exteriors, and the roofs from the blue mosque.Then I cut out the architectural features of the various building that I wish to be featured within my palace architecture. Then I created the towers from the various tools in photoshop which included a sandstone texture filter to create the the stones texture, and then using the skew feature to make it look like it curves all the way round to the top tower. Finally I colour-corrected and altered the brightness and contrast of each individual asset so that they could all sync together.

For the photographic aging effects to make the image look like it came straight from the late 19th century I added a variety of effects that achieved said look. The first effect was to blur the image slightly so that it looked more primitive and to negate the look of photoshop. The second effect was to grab a texture of an old photograph that has gone under some high-stress and wear and overlaying on top of my original image so it looks damaged and further aged. Finally I added on more photo a layer below my original image and added my original image as a overlay for that layer so that it looked further aged. If I was going to make any improvements to this image it would be to add more original elements and details to the image as a lot of it is just borrowed assets from other images and little original imagery. However I think this image overall was a success as it really captured an arabian palace feel but with some unique twists.