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| Music Concourse Golden Gate Park (from De Young museum) |
The Andy Goldsworthy patio entrance to the De Young museum is a pleasant shelter from the typical foggy breezes of Golden Gate Park.
While working on a blog posting about the courtyard, I discovered that I did not have an illustration of the realistic earthquake cracks that the Goldsworthy had carved into the stone benches and the limestone flooring.
Fortunately, I had a larger jpg photo that I could crop and adjust to show the fault line.
The planned workflow for this project was:
- Bring photo into Photoshop CC (drag jpg to my Macbook desktop icon)
- Make a background copy and open the copy in Camera Raw (filter)
- Crop and adjust exposure in Basic Panel and exit Camera Raw
- Select the darker stone and create a curves layer to make lighter. (feather edges to blend with the shadows.)
- Zoom in on fault line and with a black 1-pixel pen at 50% opacity darken the fault line by clicking on grey pixels.
- Create a curves adjustment layer with a mask to darken fault line foreground stone and the transition between stones
- Flatten image and sharpen with smart sharpen filter. Finally, export to the desktop and upload to my blog post.
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| Adam Goldsworthy, Drawn Stone, De Young museum, 2015 |
This project seemed suitable to sum up what I had learned about Photoshop CC in the first half of the course.
Here is a link to my post on Carto’s Logbook (Wordpress.com).
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