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by Catherine McIntyre
Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Dedication
INTRODUCTION
Digital manipulation as a medium of expression
THEMES
Finding your subject
Themes
BEAUTY AND IDEA
INFLUENCES
INSPIRATION
The influence of practice
The influence of environment
SUBJECTS
The portrait
The nude
The landscape
Architecture
The natural world
Still life
Myth
Abstraction
Absence
COLLECTING SOURCE MATERIAL
Taking source photographs
Treasure hunting
Finding a model—portraits and nudes
Photographing portraits and the nude
Anatomy
Still life—making your own subjects
Building an archive
Interiors
Taking it outside
Public and private collections
Found photographs
Non-photographed input—scanning and filters
Using drawing and painting
METHOD
Technique
Resolution and image quality
Creating a background
Selection
Avoiding selection
Evolution
Shadows and light
Combining textures
Translucency
Cloning
Developing your image
Practice
Saving it and final touches
COMPOSITION
Proportion
Geometry
Gestalt theory
Symmetry and asymmetry
Complexity
Focal point
Achieving perspective
Framing
COLOR
Color and space
Color and mood
Color gamuts
Color contrast
The absence of color–monochrome, sepia and color tints
TEXTURE
Finding textures
Reflections and refractions
Pattern
Microscope to telescope—playing with scale
Using texture
TONE
High- and low-key images
Tonal contrast
INVERSIONS
Color and tone inversions
Solarization
Orientation
DISTORTIONS
DEVELOPING YOUR IMAGE
Developing style
When is a picture finished?
Struggling for ideas?
THE FINISHED IMAGE
Archiving
Getting your work “out there”
Agents
Permissions and copyright issues
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Acknowledgements
Model release form
Further looking and reading
Contributing artists
Index
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